Reconnaissance

🕵️ Reconnaissance is a terminal-based OSINT (Open Source Intelligence) tool written in Python. It is designed for ethical, educational, and defensive security research purposes.

The tool currently focuses on username reconnaissance, detecting whether a specific username exists across multiple popular platforms while minimizing false positives.

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🚀 Features

• 🔍 Username OSINT (GitHub, Instagram, Twitter/X, TikTok, Reddit)
• 🧠 Site-specific content verification (not just HTTP status codes)
• ❌ Reduced false positives (no simple substring matching)
• 🖥️ Terminal-based interactive menu
• ⚡ Fast and lightweight

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📦 Requirements

• Python 3.9+ recommended

Python libraries used:

requests

colorama

Install dependencies:

pip install -r requirements.txt

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📁 Project Structure

Reconnaissance/
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├── reconnaissance.py
├── requirements.txt
├── README.md
├── LICENSE
└── .gitignore

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▶️ Usage

Run the tool from the terminal:

python reconnaissance.py

You will see an interactive menu:

[1] Username Reconnaissance
[2] Check for updates
[0] Exit

Enter a username and the tool will check supported platforms.

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🧪 Example Output

[+] Username Reconnaissance: exampleuser

[FOUND] GitHub: https://github.com/exampleuser
[NOT FOUND] Instagram
[UNKNOWN] Twitter/X
[NOT FOUND] Reddit

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⚠️ Ethical Notice

This tool is intended only for ethical OSINT purposes, such as:

• Learning OSINT techniques
• Defensive security research
• Personal account audits

❌ Do NOT use this tool for harassment, stalking, or illegal activities.

The author is not responsible for misuse of this software.

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🛠️ Roadmap

Planned improvements:

• Confidence score system
• JSON / TXT report export

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👤 Author

• GitHub: cinar59101
• With The Assistance Of: Chatgpt

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📄 License

This project is licensed under the MIT License.