Check if a Behance username is taken

What we check on Behance

Standard tier - checked on every full lookup

Behance is checked from a username. The response says whether that handle exists on Behance - registered: true or registered: false - with the moment that was established in checkedAt. An email address on its own cannot reach Behance; if you only have an email, its local part is tried as a handle and any hit is labelled as derived, never counted as a confirmed match.

Behance is checked on every full lookup (?wait=true or streaming), alongside every other platform. It is not in the sub-second instant subset, which is reserved for the highest-value platforms for each input type.

If Behance blocks the check, times out, or answers ambiguously, it is omitted from results[] entirely rather than returned as registered: false. Absence from the response means "unconfirmed", never "no account".

Who checks Behance accounts

Creative platform accounts are checked by marketplaces and freelance platforms that pay out to sellers and creators. A portfolio built over years on design, photo or writing sites is rarely faked, so a seller or freelancer with real creative history is a different risk from a brand-new address asking to be paid.

More on this: Marketplace trust and safety.

Inputs Behance accepts

• Username: send the handle as query. Behance is checked for that exact handle - useful when a person reuses the same name across platforms.

One request

curl -X POST "https://api.digifootprint.dev/v2/lookup?wait=true" \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer dfp_your_key" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"query": "someuser"}'

What a Behance result looks like

{
  "platform": "behance",
  "registered": true,
  "checkedAt": "2026-10-15T09:53:17.155Z",
  "identity": "username"
}

The full response shape - breaches, web mentions, matches versus socialMatches, and what method means - is in running a lookup.

Related platforms

Every one of these is checked in the same request as Behance.

More creative platforms: SmugMug, Wattpad, Archive of Our Own, Envato, Sketchfab · all creative

Behance lookup FAQ

Can I check a phone number on Behance?

Not directly. Behance can be reached from username. Phone numbers are checked on the messaging and social apps that sign people up by phone.

How fast is a Behance check?

Behance is checked on a full lookup, which streams results as they land - the first matches arrive in around 60 milliseconds and the whole set typically completes in a few seconds.

What happens if Behance blocks the check?

Behance is left out of the response. We never report a platform we could not confirm as "not registered" - a missing platform means unconfirmed, not absent.

Does the API return the Behance account details?

No. You get whether an account exists for the input you sent, and when that was established. No profile contents, photos, followers or private data are collected or returned.