Github username checker

Multithreaded github username checker

Examples found:

Prerequisites

• Python 3
• Python requests library (pip install requests)
• Wordlist (e.g: rockyou.txt)

Running

usage: github_checker.py [-h] wordlist threads

Find 404'd (untaken) github profiles

positional arguments:

• wordlist Wordlist to read usernames from (wordlist.txt)
• threads Amount of threads (24)

optional arguments: -h, --help show this help message and exit

Command line example

python github_checker.py "rockyou.txt" 24

Note

• See sample output: found-top10k.txt
• Script will check for profiles that return 404 status code.
• Manual confirmation is still required, further down sorted wordlist = more likely to be untaken