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nitwit v0.1.0

Scans Twitter or Github for available handles from a word list. Requires Python 2.x and requests.

Important note

-m no is a quick fix if the server starts returning 429s. Some handles may then be false positives if they are reserved keywords.

Possibilities

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

Usage details

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

License

MIT. See LICENSE for details.

Disclaimer

The author is not responsible for misuse or abuse of this product by other users.