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The Email Footprint API checks if a specific email address is registered across social media, shopping, and professional platforms.
It returns a summary of stats and a per-platform breakdown including secondary metadata like usernames or account status where available.
Scan Email
GET https://www.osintcat.net/api/email-footprint
The email address to scan (e.g., user@gmail.com)
Response Body
The email address that was checked.
Total number of platforms checked
Number of platforms where the email was found
Number of platforms where the email was not found
List of platform results. Platform domain (e.g., github.com)
True if the email is registered on this platform
Detection method (API or REGISTER)
Duration of the check for this platform
Metadata retrieved from the platform (usernames, IDs, status, etc.)
curl "https://www.osintcat.net/api/email-footprint?query=john@gmail.com" \
-H "X-API-KEY: YOUR_API_KEY"
Example Response
{
"email" : "john@gmail.com" ,
"stats" : {
"total_checked" : 119 ,
"registered_count" : 95 ,
"not_registered_count" : 24
},
"results" : [
{
"domain" : "github.com" ,
"taken" : true ,
"type" : "API" ,
"time_taken" : "1.2s" ,
"ExtraData" : {
"Username" : "johnny123" ,
"PublicRepos" : 42
}
}
]
}