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Minimal command-line tool to check if a username is available for an account to claim on Twitter.
Namehog is designed as a command-line tool. Invoke it with npx:
$ npx namehog myDreamUsername
Available!
$ npx namehog myTakenUsername
Username has already been taken
Namehog can also return results in a boolean form, for easier scripting:
$ npx namehog myDreamUsername
1 # available
$ npx namehog myTakenUsername
0 # unavailable
Namehog also provides a validate function when used within another package. Use it by importing the validate function from the package:
import { validate } from 'namehog';
const {
valid, // true/false
message, // string message / reason for unavailability if unavailable from Twitter API
} = await validate('myDreamUsername');
This project is licensed entirely under the permissive MIT License.
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A minimal command-line tool to check if a username is available on Twitter
We found that namehog demonstrated a not healthy version release cadence and project activity because the last version was released a year ago. It has 1 open source maintainer collaborating on the project.
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