Blackbird OSINT & Identity Verification
Deterministic asynchronous OSINT engine to search and verify username presence, corporate accounts, and profile existence across 500+ web platforms with false positive suppression.
Architecture
[Username / Handle]
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[Async HTTP Probe Pool] ──► [Filter 500+ Endpoints] ──► [HTTP Code / Regex / Metadata Match]
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[Verified Accounts Ledger]
Production Implementation: Async Probing Engine
import asyncio
import urllib.request
import json
from typing import Dict, List
PLATFORMS = {
"GitHub": {"url": "https://github.com/{}", "check": "status_200"},
"GitLab": {"url": "https://gitlab.com/{}", "check": "status_200"},
"Reddit": {"url": "https://www.reddit.com/user/{}/about.json", "check": "json_data"},
"HuggingFace": {"url": "https://huggingface.co/{}", "check": "status_200"},
"DockerHub": {"url": "https://hub.docker.com/v2/users/{}/", "check": "status_200"},
"PyPI": {"url": "https://pypi.org/user/{}/", "check": "status_200"}
}
async def probe_platform(platform: str, cfg: dict, username: str) -> dict:
url = cfg["url"].format(username)
req = urllib.request.Request(url, headers={"User-Agent": "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64)"})
loop = asyncio.get_event_loop()
def _fetch():
try:
with urllib.request.urlopen(req, timeout=5) as resp:
return resp.status == 200, url
except Exception:
return False, url
found, final_url = await loop.run_in_executor(None, _fetch)
return {"platform": platform, "url": final_url, "exists": found}
async def run_osint_recon(username: str) -> List[Dict]:
tasks = [probe_platform(p, cfg, username) for p, cfg in PLATFORMS.items()]
results = await asyncio.gather(*tasks)
return [r for r in results if r["exists"]]
if __name__ == "__main__":
found_accounts = asyncio.run(run_osint_recon("torvalds"))
print(json.dumps(found_accounts, indent=2))