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OSINT  TOOLS  2023
(Part 1)
More than 600 links and tools for
Open Source INTelligence and information retrieval.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Keyword research tools.

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Keyword research tools.​

​Browser extensions for OSINT. 

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  • Double Shot Search  is an extension for Chrome that doubles the search. It searches in two search engines simultaneously - Bing and Google.  

  • Hunter.io is a service that will find e-mail addresses associated with a certain domain. You can also use this tool to find an e-mail address by name in a couple of seconds.

  • RevEye  is an open-source Chrome extension that runs a photo through Google, Bing, Yandex and TinEye. 

​Browser extensions for OSINT. 

Search Engines. 

General Search

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National Search Engines.

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Privacy-oriented search engines

  • DuckDuckGo: Online investigators usually use it to search the surface web while using the Tor Browser.

  • Startpage: Fetch results from Google without tracking its users.

  • Peekier: Privacy oriented search engines that fetch its results using its own search algorithm.

  • Qwant: Based in France.

  • Oscobo: Based in UK.

  • Swisscows:  Privacy safe WEB-search based in Switzerland.

  • Gigablast: Open source search engine.

  • Gibiru:  Uncensored and anonymous search engine.

  • Privado

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Meta search engines

  • Excite

  • Search

  • MetaGer

  • Zapmeta

  • etools: Compile its results from major international search engines, keep user privacy by not collecting or sharing personal information of its users. This search engine is very fast and show a summary for each search query -on the right side- detailing the source of its results.

  • All the interne: query major search engines including shopping site like Amazon and eBay.

  • izito: Aggregate data from multiple sources (Yahoo, Bing, Wikipedia, YouTube and other) to generate optimal results which includes images, videos, news and articles.

  • Metacrawler: Aggregate results from Google and Yahoo!.

  • My all search: Aggregates results through Bing, DuckDuckGo, AOL Search, Ask, Oscobo, Mojeek, ZapMeta, MetaCrawler.

  • Carrot2: Open Source Search Results Clustering Engine aggregate results from GoogleAPI, Bing API, eTools Meta Search, Lucene, SOLR, and more.

  • elocalfinder: Fetch results from Google, Yahoo!, Ask and Bing .

  • All-in-One

  • Searx

Files Search Engines

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Search Engines.
National Search Engines.
Privacy-oriented search engines
Meta search engines
FTP search engines
Files Search Engines

Image Search Engines

There are specialized sites that hold images appeared in the press and news media, to search for this type of images go to:

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Images shared across social media sites can be found in the following locations:

There are specialized sites that hold images appeared in the press and news media, to search for this type of images go to:

Image Search Engines
Images shared across social media sites can be found
There are specialized sites that hold images appeared in the press
Graphics search

Video Search Engines

Video Search Engines
Blog Search.​
News/Newspaper Search Engines.

Fake News Detection.

  • Snopes: Discovers false news, stories, urban legends and research/validate rumors to see whether it is true.

  • Hoaxy: Check the spread of false claims (like a hoax, rumor, satire, news report) across social media sites. The site derives its results from reputable fact checking organizations to return the most accurate results.

  • FactCheck: This site is partnered with Facebook to help identify and label fake news reported by its users. It also monitors different media for the false info covering a wide range of topics like health, science, hoaxes spread through Spam emails.

  • ReviewMeta: Analysis Amazon user reviews.

  • Reporter Lab: Gives a map of global fact-checking sites.

  • Truth Or Fiction: Discover fake news in different topics like politics, nature, health, space, crime, police and terrorism…etc.

  • Hoax-Slayer: Focuses on email scam and social media hoaxes.

  • Verification Handbook: A definitive guide to verifying digital content for emergency coverage available in different languages.

  • Verification junkie: This is a directory of tools for verifying, fact checking and assessing the validity of eyewitness reports and user self-published content online.

  • citizen evidence: tools and lessons to teach people how to authenticate user-generated online contents. Managed by Amnesty International.

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Fake News Detection.​

News/Newspaper Search Engines.

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Business Search

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Business Profiles

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Business Annual Records

Data Leak Websites

Patent Search Engines
Business Search
Business Annual Records
Data Leak Websites

Pastebin sites

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Social Media Intelligence


Facebook

  • Facebook scanner: As of June 6th, you can scan only your own profile with this tool.

  • Socmint: Facilitate fetching information using Facebook Graph search.

  • Lookup ID: Find Facebook personal numeric ID / Group ID / Page ID.

  • FindMyFbid: Locate Facebook personal numeric ID.

  • Facebook JSON Search

  • LikeAlyzer: Analyze and monitor Facebook Pages.

  • Face Live: Facebook live video search.

  • Who posted what?: Facebook keyword search generator. It searches Facebook posts and limit the results to specific date.

  • ExtractFace: Automate extracting data from Facebook profiles (Not working currently).


Twitter


LinkedIn

Instagram

  • iconosquare

  • picodash: A powerful search engine to explore Instagram & Twitter photos, videos, users and locations.

  • ToFo


Reddit


Social Media Psychological Analysis

  • Tone Analyzer: This is an online service that offers free linguistic analysis to detect human feelings -like joy, fear, sadness, anger, analytical, confident and tentative tones- found in text – like Tweets, emails and Facebook messages.

  • Watson Tone Analyzer: This is a cloud based server created by IBM, it analyzes emotions and tones in online contents (e.g. Facebook posts, reviews and Tweets) to predict the emotional status of the writer. This service can be used in different scenarios -other than intelligence- like detecting customers tones to understand their needs or to better serve them.

  • Fake Sport: This site analyzes Amazon, Yelp, TripAdvisor and Apple App store users reviews to check The credibility of these reviews.

  • Review Meta: Investigate user reviews on Amazon to check which one is likely to be fake or misleading.

Pastebin sites
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Social Media Psychological Analysis

People Search

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General People Search Engines

  • Truth finder: TruthFinder has a huge database of social media profiles, address history, contact information, public records (federal, country and state data sources) and other commercial sources, you can search using target first and/or last name in addition to city/state where he lives or lived before.

  • 411: Search for people within the United States, search parameter includes Full name, location, reverse phone lookup, email and business.

  • Pipl

  • People Smart: Search for people using thier name, phone, address or email.

  • Skip Ease

  • Spokeo

  • TruePeopleSearch

  • US Search

  • Peek You

  • Zaba Search: Find people in the USA using name or phone number.

  • White Pages: Search for people within the USA using their name, phone number, business or address.

  • Been Verified: Search for people within USA using their name, phone, email or mailing address.

  • Address Search: Search for someone email or mailing address using his name and location, the service is limited to the United States only.

  • Lullar: Search social media websites using target email address or first & last name or username.

  • Yasni

  • My Life

  • Anywho: Finding people , places and businesses. You can search by name, address or phone number.

  • intelius: People search and phone number lookup.

  • Snoop Station: Search for people using full name and location. Commercial service.

  • Family Tree Now

  • Radaris

  • Info Space

  • Cubib: Search millions of online data records for free. Aggregated data is derived from people search, marketing data, property records, vehicle records, court records, patents, business registration, domain name registration, and white house visitation records.

  • That’s Them

  • Webmii

  • How many of me

  • Genealogy

  • Sorted By Name: A list of links to genealogy details -based on the first letter of the person’s surname- mentioned on other websites.

Online Registries

User Name Check

  • Check user name: Check the use of a specific username on 160 Social Networks, very useful to discover target social media accounts if he/she was using the same username on multiple platforms.

  • Namechk: Check to see if a specified username is used for major domain names and social media sites.

  • Namecheckr: Check domain & social username availability across multiple networks.

  • User Search: Scan 45 popular social media websites.

  • knowem

  • Namevine

Email Search

Email validation services. This service checks whether an email address exists or not and gives other detailed technical information about it.

Phone Number Search

Employee Profile

People Search
Online Registries
User Name Check
Email Search
Phone Number Search
Employee Profile
Terrorist Organizations

Government Records

Vital Records

These are government records usually created by local authorities, it includes birth and death records, marriage licenses and divorce decrees
 

Criminal & Court Records

Property Record

Tax & Financial Records

Social Security Number Search

  • SSN Check: Reverse Social Security Number Lookup (For USA only).

  • SSN-Verify: Social Security Number search and lookup tools.

Other Public Records

There are other types of online public records that can prove useful in some cases.

Local libraries in USA offer access to proprietary databases like ReferenceUSA (huge directory service) and America’s Newspapers (full-text obituaries) for a small fee. In many instances, such services can be offered remotely in exchange for a valid library subscription card.

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Government Records
Criminal & Court Records
Property Record
Tax & Financial Records
Social Security Number Search
Other Public Records

Technical Footprinting

Website history

Website monitoring services

Alert services

RSS Tools And Services

Websites mirroring tools

  • HTTrack: Copy website for offline view.

  • GNU Wget: Retrieve files using HTTP, HTTPS, FTP and FTPS internet protocols.

  • BlackWidow: Download complete site or part of it and can download any kind of files- including YouTube videos embedded within it.

Link extractor

Check target website backlinks

  • To see all linked websites to a specific domain name, type the following in Google: site:* darknessgate.com (There should be a space between the asterisk and the domain name). 

Identify technologies used

  • Built with: Give detailed technical information about the technology used to build target website.

  • Wappalyzer

  • dnslytics: To Find domains sharing the same Google Analytics ID.

IT devices Default Credentials

Vulnerabilities Database

Web Scraping Tools

  • Common Crawl: maintain an open repository of web crawl data that can be accessed and analyzed by anyone.

  • theHarvester: This is a tool for gathering subdomain names, e-mail addresses, virtual hosts, open ports/ banners, and employee names from different public sources like: Google, Bing, LinkedIn, Twitter, Yahoo, pgp and more.

  • Web data extractor (Commercial Application): Collect various data types including URLs, phone and fax numbers, email addresses, as well as meta tag information and body text.

  • 80legs: (Commercial) Web Scraping Tools and Cloud-Based Web Crawling.

  • agenty: Cloud-based agents for data scraping, text extraction, ocr, categorization, change detection, sentiment analysis and more…

  • Anthracite: is a collection of Web mining power tools combined in an easy-to-use graphical environment that lets users quickly and seamlessly extract data from Internet sources, modify it to suit their needs, and export it to templates or databases, e.g. for RSS feeds.

  • apify: is a web scraping and automation platform for developers.

  • artoo.js: is a piece of JavaScript code meant to be run in your browser’s console to provide you with some scraping utilities.

  • scrapy:An open source and collaborative framework for extracting the data you need from websites.

  • datatoolbar

  • DEiXTo

  • datasift

  • Email extractor

Website certification search

Statistics & analytics Tools