Skip to content

😱 A curated list of amazingly awesome OSINT

License

Notifications You must be signed in to change notification settings

BugHunterID/awesome-osint

 
 

Folders and files

NameName
Last commit message
Last commit date

Latest commit

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Repository files navigation

Awesome OSINT Awesome

A curated list of amazingly awesome open source intelligence tools and resources. Open-source intelligence (OSINT) is intelligence collected from publicly available sources. In the intelligence community (IC), the term "open" refers to overt, publicly available sources (as opposed to covert or clandestine sources)

Contents

Contributing

Please read CONTRIBUTING if you wish to add tools or resources.

Credits

This list was taken directly from i-inteligence's OSINT Tools and Resources Handbook. I-intelligence is dedicated to helping you improve your ability to collect, analyze, manage, share and communicate information, whether in support of government policy or in pursuit of competitive advantage.

General Search

The main search engines used by users.

Main National Search Engines

Localized search engines by country.

Meta Search

Lesser known and used search engines.

Specialty Search Engines

Search engines for specific information or topics.

Visual Search and Clustering Search Engines

Search engines that scrape multiple sites (Google, Yahoo, Bing, Goo, etc) at the same time and return results.

  • Carrot2 - Organizes your search results into topics.
  • Cluuz - Generates easier to understand search results through graphs, images, and tag clouds.
  • Yippy - Search using multiple sources at once

Similar Sites Search

Find websites that are similar. Good for business competition research.

Document and Slides Search

Search for data located on PDFs, Word documents, presentation slides, and more.

Pastebins

Find information that has been uploaded to Pastebin.

  • Custom Pastebin Search - A custom search page that indexes 57 different paste sites.
  • PasteLert - PasteLert is a simple system to search pastebin.com and set up alerts (like google alerts) for pastebin.com entries.

Code Search

Search by website source code

  • CoCaBu - Search engine that augments user query into code-friendly for retrieving precise examples.
  • FaCoY - Search engine that retrieves code examples that are syntactically and semantically similar.
  • NerdyData - Search engine for source code.
  • SearchCode - Help find real world examples of functions, API's and libraries across 10+ sources.

Major Social Networks

Real-Time Search, Social Media Search, and General Social Media Tools

Social Media Tools

Twitter

Facebook

Google+

Instagram

Pinterest

Reddit

Tools to help discover more about a reddit user or subreddit.

VKontakte

Perform various OSINT on Russian social media site VKontakte.

Tumblr

LinkedIn

  • FTL - Browser plugin that finds emails of people's profiles in LinkedIn.

Blog Search

Forums and Discussion Boards Search

Username Check

People Investigations

E-mail Search / E-mail Check

Phone Number Research

  • National Cellular Directory - was created to help people research and reconnect with one another by performing cell phone lookups. The lookup products includes have billions of records that can be accessed at any time, as well as free searches one hour a day, every day.
  • NumSpy-API - find details of any mobile number in india for free and get a JSON formated output, inspired by NumSpy.
  • Reverse Phone Lookup - Detailed information about phone carrier, region, service provider, and switch information.
  • Spy Dialer - Get the voicemail of a cell phone & owner name lookup.
  • Twilio - Look up a phone numbers carrier type, location, etc.
  • Phone Validator - Pretty accurate phone lookup service, particularly good against Google Voice numbers.

Expert Search

Company Research

Job Search Resources

Q&A Sites

Domain and IP Research

Keywords Discovery and Research

Web History and Website Capture

Language Tools

Image Search

Image Analysis

Stock Images

Video Search and Other Video Tools

Radio and Podcasts Tools

Academic Resources and Grey Literature

Books and Reading

Geospatial Research and Mapping Tools

News

News Digest and Discovery Tools

Fact Checking

Data and Statistics

Web Monitoring

Bookmarking

Startpages

Browsers

Offline Browsing

VPN Services

Note-taking

Annotation Tools

Writing and Office Tools

Slide Show and Presentation Tools

Digital Publishing

Newsletter Tools

Digital Storytelling

Infographics and Data Visualization

Image and Photo Editing

Productivity Tools

E-mail Management

Document and Reference Management

PDF Management

OCR Tools

Cloud Storage and File Sharing

Web Automation

Dashboard Tools

Wikis

Collaboration and Project Management

Communication Tools

Calendars and Scheduling

Mind Mapping, Concept Mapping and Idea Generation Tools

Social Network Analysis

Privacy and Encryption Tools

DNS

  • Amass - The amass tool searches Internet data sources, performs brute force subdomain enumeration, searches web archives, and uses machine learning to generate additional subdomain name guesses. DNS name resolution is performed across many public servers so the authoritative server will see the traffic coming from different locations. Written in Go.

Other Tools

  • Barcode Reader - Decode barcodes in C#, VB, Java, C\C++, Delphi, PHP and other languages.
  • Belati - Belati - The Traditional Swiss Army Knife For OSINT. Belati is tool for Collecting Public Data & Public Document from Website and other service for OSINT purpose.
  • Datasploit - Tool to perform various OSINT techniques on usernames, emails addresses, and domains.
  • The Harvester - Gather emails, subdomains, hosts, employee names, open ports and banners from different public sources like search engines, PGP key servers and SHODAN computer database.
  • Intrigue Core - Framework for attack surface discovery.
  • Maltego - Interactive data mining tool that renders directed graphs for link analysis.
  • OpenRefine - Free & open source power tool for working with messy data and improving it.
  • Orbit - Draws relationships between crypto wallets with recursive crawling of transaction history.
  • OSINT Framework - Web based framework for OSINT.
  • OsintStalker - Python script for Facebook and geolocation OSINT.
  • Outwit - Find, grab and organize all kinds of data and media from online sources.
  • Photon - Crawler designed for OSINT
  • Pown Recon - Target reconnaissance framework powered by graph theory.
  • QuickCode - Python and R data analysis environment.
  • Recon-ng - Full-featured Web Reconnaissance framework written in python.
  • SecApps Recon - Information gathering and target reconnaissance tool and UI.
  • sn0int - Semi-automatic OSINT framework and package manager.
  • Zen - Find email addresses of Github users

OSINT Videos

License

cc license

This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International license.

About

😱 A curated list of amazingly awesome OSINT

Resources

License

Stars

Watchers

Forks

Releases

No releases published

Packages

No packages published