# Maigret Username Checker — OSINT Search Across 3000+ Sites

A social media tool your agent can run on one prepaid apifare key. Page: https://apifare.com/tools/ntriqpro/maigret-actor

## What you need

An apifare key with credits (sign up: POST https://apifare.com/v1/signup {"email": "..."}; new accounts get 500 free credits). No other account or key.

## Inputs

- `usernames` (array): Usernames
- `username` (string): Single username (legacy)
- `maxUsernames` (integer): Max usernames per run
- `topSites` (integer): Top N sites to check
- `timeout` (integer): Request timeout (seconds)
- `tags` (string): Filter by tags (include)

The most relevant fields; the search result's input_schema lists all of them.

## Price

5 credits reserved per run, settled to the run's true cost, never more than 20 credits (1 credit = $0.01). Failed runs are refunded. Exact numbers: https://apifare.com/capabilities

## Run it

1. Find it: MCP search_apis, or GET https://apifare.com/v1/search?q=Maigret%20Username%20Checker%20%E2%80%94%20OSINT%20Search%20Across%203000%2B%20Sites with Authorization: Bearer <token>. Take the result named "Maigret Username Checker — OSINT Search Across 3000+ Sites"; it carries a proxy_route.
2. Run it: MCP proxy_call with that proxy_route and the input JSON (apifare-mcp over stdio), or POST the proxy_route over HTTP with the input JSON as the body and the same Authorization header.
3. On HTTP 402, relay the body's human_readable field to your human verbatim, wait, then retry the same call. Every other error and its fix: https://apifare.com/errors.md