Scans Twitter or Github for available handles from a word list. Requires Python 2.x and requests.
-m no is a quick fix if the server starts returning 429s. Some handles may then be false positives if they are reserved keywords.
Search for "TheReal" + top 100 most-followed Twitter handles:
curl -vs "http://twittercounter.com/pages/100" 2>&1 \
| grep "analytics.track('Viewed Profile'" \
| awk -F 'href' '{print $2}'\
| awk -F '"' '{print $2}' \
| cut -c 2- \
| uniq \
| awk '{ print "TheReal" $0 }' \
| python nitwit.py -d - >nitwits.txt
5x (mutate one letter of each of the top 100 most-followed Twitter handles at random and check availability):
curl -vs "http://twittercounter.com/pages/100" 2>&1 \
| grep "analytics.track('Viewed Profile'" \
| awk -F 'href' '{print $2}'\
| awk -F '"' '{print $2}' \
| cut -c 2- \
| uniq \
| python -c \
'import random
import sys
import string
import copy
for word in sys.stdin:
word = list(word.strip());
for i in xrange(5):
new_word = copy.deepcopy(word)
new_word[random.randint(0, len(new_word) - 1)] = \
random.choice(string.ascii_lowercase)
print "".join(new_word)' \
| python nitwit.py -d - >nitwits.txt
Search for all three-letter Twitter handles in random order:
for i in {a..z}{a..z}{a..z}
do
echo $i
done \
| perl -MList::Util=shuffle -e 'print shuffle(<STDIN>);' \
| python nitwit.py -d - >nitwits.txt
Output only handles from /usr/share/dict/words that can be registered on both Twitter and Github:
comm <(python nitwit.py -m no -g -s) <(python nitwit.py -m no -s)
Check the Twitter handle i every five seconds and beep insistently when it's available:
while true
do
if [[ $(echo i | python nitwit.py -m no -d - -s) == "i" ]]; then
while true
do
tput bel
sleep 1
done
fi
sleep 5
done
Display help:
python nitwit.py -h
Source Twitter search with /usr/share/dict/words, writing live stats to stderr and available handles to nitwits.txt:
python nitwit.py >nitwits.txt
Search Github, not Twitter:
python nitwit.py -g >nitwits.txt
If "m" follows a handle written to stdout, then while the handle has no account associated with it, Twitter/Github is currently blocking its registration. This could mean the handle will be available soon; it could also mean the handle is a reserved word.
Search only for handles that have no associated accounts:
python nitwit.py -m yes >nitwits.txt
Search only for whether handles can be registered:
python nitwit.py -m no >nitwits.txt
Search for words in mydict.txt, a text file with a single word per line, in random order:
cat mydict.txt \
| perl -MList::Util=shuffle -e 'print shuffle(<STDIN>);' \
| python nitwit.py -g -d - >nitwits.txt
Use proxy P (useful in conjunction with Tor if getting 429'd):
python nitwit.py -p P >nitwits.txt
Above, P is, for example, http://10.10.1.10:1080.
Wait for 1.25 seconds between successive server requests:
python nitwit.py -w 1.25 >nitwits.txt
Suppress status messages written to stderr:
python nitwit.py -s >nitwits.txt
MIT. See LICENSE for details.
The author is not responsible for misuse or abuse of this product by other users.