Social Links gives an API to a suite of data extraction and analysis methods covering social media, blockchains, messengers, and the Dark Web.
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Connect open-source data from various sources to your platform or product to solve multiple tasks:
- Conduct deep background checks by identifying all linked accounts
- Monitor online threats by searching and analyzing posts
- Enrich your data by gathering information from 500+ sources
- REST API
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- API key for authentication
Get Zach Braff’s fan accounts on VK, YouTube, and Twitter using his name and photo.
How to launch:
export API_DOMAIN=...
export API_KEY=...
python3 face_search_example.py \
--name "zach braff" \
--photo_url "https://hollywoodlife.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/Zach-Braff-social-image.jpg" \
--platforms youtube,vk,twitter_v2
Face recognition techniques are extremely important in many cases, such as KYC and general background checks. However, popular public tools like Pimeyes and Facecheck.id cannot always provide accurate results from social platforms. To make face searches more effective, you can combine face and name searches.
This technique is straightforward: first, conduct a general search by name or alias across social media platforms. This step will yield a list of potential matches, even if the name is not exactly the same — because many social media platforms use fuzzy search.
Next, compare the profile photos in these results with the original photo you have. This process doesn’t require access to a biometric database — just a name and a picture. As a result, you'll get a list of matched accounts.
But, of course, the most difficult part is to integrate your search with all needed websites. How can you do this quickly?
At Social Links, we use this approach to automatically find accounts and compare their photos across various social media platforms, ensuring that you get all related accounts regardless of the use case, whether it's KYC checks, investigations, or searching for impersonators. And that's just a small part of our powerful functionality to gather data from social media!
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