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Awesome OSINT

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)

General Search
Main National Search Engines
Meta Search
Specialty Search Engines
Visual Search and Clustering Search Engines
Similar Sites Search
Document and Slides Search
Pastebins
Code Search
Major Social Networks
Real-Time Search, Social Media Search, and General Social Media Tools
Social Media Tools
- Twitter
- Facebook
- Google+
- Instagram
- Pinterest
- Reddit
- VKontakte
- Tumblr
- LinkedIn
Blog Search
Forums and Discussion Boards Search
Username Check
People Investigations
E-mail Search / E-mail Check
Phone Number Research
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
Other Tools
OSINT Videos

↑ 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.

Advangle
Aol
Ask
Bing
Better Search
Dothop
DuckDuckGo - an Internet search engine that emphasizes protecting searchers' privacy.
Factbites
Gigablast
Goodsearch
Google Search - Most popular search engine.
Instya
Impersonal.me
iSEEK Education
ixquick
Lycos
Parseek (Iran)
Peeplo
Search.com
SurfCanyon
Teoma
Wolfram Alpha
Yahoo! Search -

↑ Main National Search Engines

Localized search engines by country.

Alleba (Philippines) - Philippines search engine
Baidu (China) - The major search engine used in China
Daum (South Korea)
Eniro (Sweden)
Goo (Japan)
Najdsi (Slovenia)
Naver (South Korea)
Onet.pl (Poland)
Orange (France)
Parseek (Iran)
SAPO (Portugal)
Search.ch (Switzerland)
Walla (Israel)
Yandex (Russia)

↑ 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.

Google Similar Pages
SimilarPages - Find pages similar to each other
SimilarSites - Discover websites that are similar to each other
SitesLike - Find similar websites by category

↑ 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.

Imgur - The most popular image hosting website used by redditors.
Metareddit - Explore various subreddits.
Mostly Harmless - Mostly Harmless looks up the page you are currently viewing to see if it has been submitted to reddit.
Reddit Archive - Historical archives of reddit posts.
Reddit Suite - Enhances your reddit experience.
Reddit Investigator - Investigate a reddit users history.
Reddit Metrics - Keeps track of the growth of a subreddit.
Reddit User Analyser - reddit user account analyzer.
SnoopSnoo - Provides reddit user and subreddits analytics.
Subreddits - Discover new subreddits.
Reddit Comment Search - Analyze a reddit users by comment history.

↑ VKontakte

Perform various OSINT on Russian social media site VKontakte.

Дезертир
Barkov.net
Find Face - Search for people on VK by photo.
Report Tree
Social Stats
Spotlight
Snradar - Search pictures by time and location they were taken
Target Hunter
Target Log
VK5
VK Community Search
VK Parser - A tool to search for a target audience and potential customers.
VK People Search
VK to RSS Appspot

↑ Tumblr

Searchlr - Search engine for tumblr posts.
Tumblr Search

↑ LinkedIn

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

↑ Blog Search

↑ Forums and Discussion Boards Search

↑ Username Check

Check User Names
Custom Username Tools
Gaddr - Scan 50+ different websites for usernames.
Knowem - Search for a username on over 500 popular social networks.
Name Chk
Name Checkr
User Search

↑ People Investigations

411 (US)
192 (UK)
Alumni.net
Ancestry
Canada411
Cedar
Charlie App
Classmates
CrunchBase
Custom Person Search Tools
CVGadget
Data 24-7
Gaddr
facesearch - Search for images of a person by name.
Family Search
Family Tree Now
Federal Bureau of Prisons - Inmate Locator (US) - Find an inmate that is in the Federal Bureau of Prisons system.
Fold3 (US Military Records) - Browse records of US Military members.
Forebears
Genealogy Bank
Genealogy Links
Hey Press (Search for Journalists)
Homemetry
Infobel
Infospace White Pages
Interment
International White and Yellow Pages
Itools
Kompass
LookUpUK
Lullar
MarketVisual
MelissaDATA
My Life People Search
The National Archives (UK)
PeekYou
People Search (Australia)
PeopleSearch.net
Pipl
Rapportive
RecordsPedia
Recruitem
Reunion
Rootsweb
SearchBug
Skip Ease
snitch.name
SnoopStation
Spokeo
Switchboard
That’sThem
USSearch
WebMiii
White Pages (US)
Wink
Yasni
Zabasearch
Zoominfo

↑ 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

Accuranker
ahrefs - A tool for backlink research, organic traffic research, keyword research, content marketing & more.
Alexa
Bing Webmaster Tools
BuiltWith
Central Ops
Custom Domain Search Tools
Custom IP Address Search Tools
Dedicated or Not
DNSDumpster
DNS History
DNSStuff
DNSTrails - Historical and current WHOIS, historical and current DNS records, technologies used and whois search by phone, mail, address, IP etc.
DNSViz
Domain Big Data
Domain Crawler
Domain Dossier
Domain History
Domain Tools - Whois lookup and domain/ip historical data.
Easy whois
Exonera Tor - A database of IP addresses that have been part of the Tor network. It answers the question whether there was a Tor relay running on a given IP address on a given date.
Follow.net
GraphyStories
HypeStat
Infosniper
intoDNS
IP Checking
IP Location
IP 2 Geolocation
IP 2 Location
IPFingerprints
IPVoid - IP address toolset.
IntelliTamper
Kloth
NetworkTools
Majestic
MaxMind
MXToolbox - MX record lookup tool.
Netcraft Site Report
OpenLinkProfiler
Open Site Explorer
PageGlimpse
Pentest-Tools.com
PhishStats
Pulsedive
Quantcast
Quick Sprout
RedirectDetective
Remote DNS Lookup
Robtex
SameID
SecurityTrails - API to search current and historical DNS records, current and historical WHOIS, technologies used by sites and whois search for phone, email, address, IPs etc.
SEMrush
SEO Chat Tools
SEOTools for Excel
Similar Web
SmallSEOTools
StatsCrop
TCPIPUTILS.com
urlQuery
URLVoid - Analyzes a website through multiple blacklist engines and online reputation tools to facilitate the detection of fraudulent and malicious websites.
Wappalyzer
WebMeUp
Website Informer
WhatIsMyIPAddress
Who.is - Domain whois information.
Whois Arin Online
WhoIsHostingThis
WhoisMind
Whoisology
WhoIsRequest
w3snoop
Verisign
ViewDNS.info
You Get Signal

↑ Keywords Discovery and Research

Google Adwords - Get monthly keyword volume data and stats.
Google Keyword Suggest Tool
Google Trends - See how many users are searching for specific keywords.
Keyword Discovery
Keyword Spy
KeywordTool
One Look Reverse Dictionary
Word Tracker
Soovle
Ubersuggest

↑ Web History and Website Capture

Archive.is
BlackWidow
CashedPages
CachedView
Screenshots.com
Wayback Machine - Explore the history of a website.
Wayback Machine Archiver

↑ Language Tools

↑ Image Search

↑ Image Analysis

↑ Stock Images

↑ Video Search and Other Video Tools

Aol Videos
Bing Videos
Blinkx
Clarify
Clip Blast
Custom YouTube Search Tools
DailyMotion
Deturl
DownloadHealper
Earthcam
Frame by Frame - Browser plugin that allows you to watch YouTube videos frame by frame.
Geosearch
Internet Archive: Open Source Videos
LiveLeak
Metacafe
Metatube
Montage
Reverse Image Search Tools
Veoh
Vimeo
Voxalead
Yahoo Video Search
YouTube
YouTube Data Viewer
ccSUBS - Download Closed Captions & Subtitles from YouTube

↑ Radio and Podcasts Tools

↑ Academic Resources and Grey Literature

Academia
Academic Journals
African Journal Online
American Society of Civil Engineers
Base
Bibsonomy
Cambridge Journals
The Collection of Computer Science Bibliographies - The CCSB is a collection of bibliographies of scientific literature in computer science from various sources, covering most aspects of computer science.
Core
Elsevier
Google Scholar
Grey Guide
Grey Literature (HLWIKI International)
Grey Literature – List of Gateways
Grey Literature Report
Grey Literature Strategies
GreyNet International
HighWire: Free Online Full-text Articles
Journal Guide
Journal Seek
JSTOR - Search over 10 million academic journal articles, books, and primary sources.
Lazy Scholar
Leibniz Information Centre For Science and Technology University Library - indexes all reports of German publicly funded projects and many scientific papers.
Microsoft Academic
NRC Research Press
Open Access Scientific Journals
Open Grey
The Open Syllabus Project
Oxford Journals
PubMed - Search more than 27 millions citations for biomedical literature from MEDLINE, life science journals, and online books.
Quetzal Search
Research Gate
SAGE Journals
ScienceDirect
SCIRP
Springer
ScienceDomain
Science Publications
Taylor & Francis Online
Wiley
World Digital Library
World Science
Zetoc

↑ Books and Reading

↑ Geospatial Research and Mapping Tools

↑ News

↑ News Digest and Discovery Tools

↑ Fact Checking

↑ Data and Statistics

↑ Web Monitoring

↑ Bookmarking

↑ Startpages

↑ Browsers

Brave
CentBrowser
Chrome
Comodo Dragon
Coowon
Edge
Firefox
Maxthon
Opera
Safari
Sleipnir
Slimjet
SRWare Iron
Tor Browser - Tor is a free software that prevents people from learning your location or browsing habits by letting you communicate anonymously on the Internet.
Torch
UCBrowser
Vivaldi
Yandex Browser

↑ Offline Browsing

A1 Website Download - Download entire websites to disk.
Cyotek WebCopy
gmapcatcher
Hooey webprint
HTTrack - Allows you to download a World Wide Web site from the Internet to a local directory, building recursively all directories, getting HTML, images, and other files from the server to your computer.
Offliberty
Resolver
SiteSucker
WebAssistant
Website Ripper Copier

↑ VPN Services

TorrentFreak List of VPNs

↑ 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

Colwiz
DocumentCloud
Endnote
F1000
Investigative Dashboard Search
ManualsLib - Database of More Than 2.6M Manuals.
Mendeley
Omnity
Overview
Papers
Readcube
RefME
Zotero

↑ PDF Management

↑ OCR Tools

↑ Cloud Storage and File Sharing

↑ Web Automation

↑ Dashboard Tools

↑ Wikis

↑ Collaboration and Project Management

10kinsights
15Five
92fiveApp
5pm
ActionMint
ActiveCollab
Advanseez
Agilewords
Agilezen
AllThings
Any.do
Apollo
Asana
Authorea
AWW
Azendoo
Basecamp
Binfire
Breeze
Canvanizer
Casual
Cardboardit
Cardsmith - Build visual collaboration systems with the familiarity of sticky notes on a white board.
CloudApp
Cnverg
Collabtive
CollaborateCloud
Comindwork
Conceptboard
Confluence
CoSketch
Crowdbase
Dayboard
Deekit
Draw.to
eGroupWare
Elegantt
Encrypted Cloud
Firepad
Firesub
Flask
Float
Flockdraw
Flow
Frame
Freedcamp
GetDoneDone
Glasscubes
GQueues
GroupZap
Hightail
hitask
Huddle
KabanTool
Kanboard
Kerika
Linky dink
Listacular
Loomio
LumoFlow
Mammoth
MyKanzen
Nozbe
Nutcache
Minute
Mural
OmniGroup
OnlyOffice
Padlet
Piematrix
Pinstriped
PivotalTracker
Plan
Planleaf
Planzone
Podio
PrimaryPad
ProjectManager
ProjectPlace
ProofHub
Quip
Quire
Realtimeboard
Redbooth
Restya
Reverb
ScadaPlan
Scribblar
SeavusProjectViewer
Smartsheet
Stackfield
Stormboard
Sync.in
SyncSpace
Taiga
TargetProcess
Taskboard
TeamAllocator
Team.fm
Teamgum
Team Pad
TeamWork
TeamWorklive
TitanPad
Todoyu
Transparent Business
Trello
Tuzzit
Twiddla
Twoodo
updatey
Web Whiteboard
Weekdone
Wekan
wePaste
Whiteboard
Whiteboard
Whiteboard Fox
Worknoard
Workfront
Wrike
Yammer
YouTrack
Zoho

↑ Communication Tools

↑ Calendars and Scheduling

↑ Mind Mapping, Concept Mapping and Idea Generation Tools

↑ Social Network Analysis

↑ Privacy and Encryption Tools

Abine
AdblockPlus
Adium
Axcrypt
Blender
boxcryptor
CCleaner
Chatsecure
ClearConsole
Click&Clean
Crypto.cat
Disconnect
Do Not Track
Duck Duck Go Search Engine
EncSF MP
Encrypted Cloud
Epic Privacy Browser
Eraser
FileVault
Ghostery
Gmelius for Inbox by Gmail
GNU PG
GPG Tools
Guardian Project
Guerrilla Mail
Hotspot Shield
HTTPs Everywhere
I2P
IBackup
IPLeak
Ixquick Search Engine
justdeleteme
KeePass Password Safe
Lastpass
Lockbin
Mailbox
Mailvelope
Master Password
Motherpipe
Nixory
NoScript
Open DNS
Open PGP
Open Whisper Systems
Oscobo Search Engine
OSSEC
Panopticlick
Peerblock
Pidgin
Pixel Block
Policeman
Privacy Badger
Privacy Pal
Privazer
Proton Mail
Qubes
Ricochet
Script Safe
Securesha
Silent circle
Snort
Spideroak
Surveilliance Self Defense
Tails
Thunderbird
Tor Project
uBlock
Unseen.is
Wickr
WOT
VeraCrypt
Viivo - End Of Life annoucement. EOL = July 1 2018.
ZMail

↑ 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.
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.
QuickCode - Python and R data analysis environment.
Recon-ng - Full-featured Web Reconnaissance framework written in python.
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.

↑ OSINT Videos

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