Awesome Open Source lists open source projects categorized as OSINT alongside repository details. Entries include Sherlock for hunting social media accounts by username, Twint for Twitter scraping, Amass for attack surface mapping and asset discovery, and SpiderFoot, which automates OSINT for threat intelligence. Each entry shows dependent packages, total releases and most recent commit information.
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GitHub collection of social media OSINT tools for researching profiles, posts, and platforms.
Cipher387's large OSINT tool collection covering social media, domains, people, maps, and more.
Curated OSINT toolkit with links for people search, social media, maps, domains, and research.
OSINT Techniques offers free open source resources for open source intelligence and social media investigations, aimed mainly at analysts and researchers in investigative roles. The site explains that open source means publicly available information that any member of the public can lawfully obtain, and includes sections on tools, training, books and videos.
A curated directory of OSINT tools and resources organized by categories such as username, email, phone, image, social, chat, gaming and location. The page states that it prioritizes highly effective content over quantity and lists only services that can be used for free. It includes dorks and tool entries with usage examples.
Start.me OSINT collection with categorized tools for people, websites, social media, and investigations.
Aware-Online provides a free collection of custom Open Source Intelligence (OSINT) scripts and links to third-party OSINT tools, alongside tutorials, to support effective internet and social media investigations. The provider does not actively monitor information entered into its scripts.
This is a no-longer-maintained Google Sheets resource collection compiled by AaronCTI, with its updated version hosted at OSINTPORTAL.COM. It categorizes links to cyber threat intelligence and open source intelligence resources for lookups including email addresses, IP addresses, social media profiles, and data breaches.
A Chrome extension that combines several OSINT and SOCMINT tools into one package, with added support for Instagram, Twitter and TikTok. Users need an account on each platform and must have the site open with a logged-in session in the active tab. The source code is obfuscated, which may trigger antivirus alerts.
Reddit Osint is a code project with source, releases, documentation, or setup notes.
Tookie-OSINT is an advanced open-source intelligence (OSINT) information gathering tool. It discovers social media user accounts based on provided inputs, operating similarly to the Sherlock tool. The project has been fully rewritten from scratch to improve performance, and is optimized for Python 3.12. It is available for installation on Kali Linux via the apt package manager, with additional installation options for other Linux systems documented in the project wiki.
Search tool for finding public social profiles and mentions across multiple social networks.
Social Media OSINT collection containing - tools, techniques & tradecraft.
Analyst Research Tools is a collection of OSINT search links organized by category, including people, PII sites, social media, email, phone number, vehicle and username searches. It provides input forms for names, usernames, emails, phone numbers and other identifiers, alongside search builders, a bulk URL opener and the ability to select or deselect sites.
OSINT tool for finding accounts and public traces connected to an email address across online services.
The Facebook Friends List Generator is a Chrome extension published in version 1.0 on October 20, 2019. It is presented as a tool for OSINT investigations where a user's friend list cannot be viewed due to privacy settings, offering an alternative to reviewing likes and comments on a timeline. The author notes the source code is obfuscated and that antivirus software may flag it.
Geolocation OSINT tool for collecting location clues from social media and online sources.
A collection of OSINT tools for researching Instagram, Reddit and Snapchat. It includes profile and keyword searches, account analytics, comparison of users, account ID and geolocation tools for Instagram, post and comment searches for Reddit, and username and location video searches for Snapchat. Some tools require the subject's account name.
Intelligence X is a provider of free open source intelligence (OSINT) and forensic tools for investigations. Its toolset supports search across third-party sites, social media intelligence for Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, Telegram, and YouTube, and utilities for tasks including email validation, domain lookups, IP lookups, Bitcoin tracing, and image analysis. All listed OSINT and forensic tools are available to use at no cost.
Intelligence X is a provider of free open source intelligence (OSINT) and forensic tools for investigative use. The platform offers a suite of tools for searching third-party sites, performing social media intelligence on Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, Telegram and YouTube, plus utilities for validating email addresses, looking up domains, IPs, Bitcoin addresses, images and other data types.
A free collection of search tools from IntelTechniques, described as a supplement to the book OSINT Techniques, 11th Edition. It links to query categories including search engines, social networks, email addresses, usernames, names, addresses, telephone numbers, maps, documents, images, videos, domains, and IP addresses. Queries run in the user's own browser.
Instagram OSINT script for gathering public account information from profile data.
OSINT Toolkit provides email and username lookup tools. Users enter a username or email to run general searches, social media searches and messaging app searches. The site notes that username and email results are an approximation, so negative results do not necessarily mean an account is not in use.