usernames

A list of inactive accounts on github that possess a `rare` username.

According to GitHub's official Name Squatting Policy:

GitHub prohibits account name squatting, and account names may not be reserved or inactively held for future use. Accounts violating this name squatting policy may be removed or renamed without notice. Attempts to sell, buy, or solicit other forms of payment in exchange for account names are prohibited and may result in permanent account suspension.

So feel free to try and claim what you like!

Usage

You can run the script with your own custom wordlist (and also tweak the filters).

usage: main.py [-h] [-i INPUT] [-o OUTPUT]

arguments:
  -h, --help           show this help message and exit
  -i INPUT,  --input   input file
  -o OUTPUT, --output  output file

Access Token

Generate a token here

# .env file, replace token_here with your token

TOKEN="token token_here"

Exporting Results

You can specify an output file to receive the results. The program currently supports Markdown, JSON, CSV or Text file formats.

For instance, running the following command:

$ python3 main.py -i users.txt -o output.md

will generate an output similar to this:

User(s)	Created In
overdrive	2010
should	2011
yo1	2011

Checks

• No starred repositories
• No repositories
• No private contributions
• No following
• No public contributions
• Created in year <= 2011

Results

results/
├── output.txt <- https://github.com/first20hours/google-10000-english/blob/master/google-10000-english-no-swears.txt
├── output10.txt <- https://github.com/hzlzh/Domain-Name-List/blob/master/3-letter-words.txt
├── output11.txt <- https://github.com/hzlzh/Domain-Name-List/blob/master/Animal-words.txt
├── output12.txt <- https://www.random.org/strings/?num=10000&len=3&digits=on&upperalpha=on&loweralpha=on&unique=on&format=html&rnd=new
├── output13.txt <- 100 ... 999
├── output14.txt <- 0 ... 99
├── output2.txt <- https://github.com/openethereum/wordlist/blob/master/res/wordlist.txt
├── output3.txt <- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:List_of_two-letter_combinations
├── output4.txt <- http://www.scrabble.org.au/words/threes.htm
├── output5.txt <- https://www.ef.com/ca/english-resources/english-vocabulary/top-1000-words/
├── output6.txt <- https://www.reddit.com/r/leagueoflegends/comments/i2wmdg/list_of_words_so_you_can_play_skribbl_with_lol/
├── output7.txt <- https://www.enchantedlearning.com/wordlist/computer.shtml
├── output8.txt <- https://github.com/cervoise/pentest-scripts/blob/master/password-cracking/wordlists/pokemon-list-en.txt
└── output9.txt <- https://github.com/dariusk/corpora/blob/master/data/words/nouns.json

Contributing

See CONTRIBUTING.md

Note

Not all activity on GitHub is publicly available, therefore users scraped here may still technically be active (even though they appear to be inactive).

If you are active and want to be removed from these lists, feel free to submit a PR!