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May 22, 2025
Speciality Search Engines
- Search Abuseipdb (⭐1) - Tool to query IPs, ranges and ASN blocks in AbuseIPDB via API with CIDR notation.
Digital Footprint Tools
- Mine - Mine allows you to discover where your personal data is, and reduce your online exposure to minimize digital risks.
- Yorba - Yorba helps you regain control of your digital life. We find and delete old accounts, cancel unwanted subscriptions, and unsubscribe you from emails you never open—making your inbox cleaner, your footprint leaner, your privacy stronger.
May 19, 2025
Speciality Search Engines
- Wpscan - Scan your WordPress site and get an instant report on its security.
Pastebins
- Context - Share whatever you see with others in seconds.
- HashBin - HashBin is a paste bin that never sees the contents of its pastes.
- Logpasta - Simple, secure log paste service. Command line mode based.
- Nachricht - With Nachricht.co you can send self-destructive and encrypted one-way messages over the Internet. You don't even need to miss out the messenger or social network of your choice. We are an independent, secure and fully free service!
- NoPaste - NoPaste is an open-source website similar to Pastebin where you can store any piece of code, and generate links for easy sharing.
- New Paste - I wanna paste because typing is so boring!
- n0paste - Paste and share your code online.
- OTS- One Time Secrets - An encrypted pastebin site. No login needed!
- Paste.Cash - Paste.CASH Is a privacy respected and encrypted pastebin hosted by Cash Hosting. Every paste are encrypted using 256 bits AES.
- PasteFree.com - Popular Paste and Share Site.
- Pastery - The sweetest pastebin in the world!
- Pastebin - Tor Link - Paste text to store or share with others.
- SafeNote - SafeNote is a free web-based service that allows you to share a note or a file with confidentiality. There is no way to spying on you even to a hacker.
- scrt.link - Share a Secret with a link that only works one time and then self-destructs.
Domain and IP Research / Steam
- Fullhunt - FullHunt is an OSINT tool focused on identifying and protecting internet-exposed assets.
- IP Location.io - IPLocation.io allows you to check the location of an IP for free
Other Tools / Steam
- aadinternals - Provides tools and insights for advanced analysis and security testing of Azure Active Directory (AAD) and Microsoft 365.
- Dorkgpt - Artificial intelligence that generates advanced search queries to find specific or hidden information on the internet.
- Router Passwords - Online database of default router passwords.
May 14, 2025
Speciality Search Engines
- Abusech - Hunt across all abuse.ch platforms with one simple query
- Islegitsite - Checks if a website is trustworthy by analyzing its reputation, domain, and security based on public sources.
Social Media Tools / Telegram
- GroupDa - Can be used for Searching Telegram Channels. Search by Category, Countries and Language.
- tgworld - The Global Search System TG.World will help you find Channels, Groups and Bots in Telegram in any language and for any country in the world!
- TeleSearch - Search and find your desired Telegram channels, groups, bots and games quickly and easily with Telesearch.
Domain and IP Research / Steam
- URLhaus - URLhaus shares malicious URLs to combat malware and botnet threats
May 12, 2025
Speciality Search Engines
- CRT Certificate Search - Allows you to search for public SSL/TLS certificates recorded in Certificate Transparency logs
Domain and IP Research / Steam
- Bgpview.io - The website bgpview.io allows you to look up detailed information about ASNs, IPs, and BGP routes on the internet.
- [Icann Lookup)(https://lookup.icann.org/en/lookup) - The site allows you to look up domain registration information (WHOIS) on the internet
May 10, 2025
Speciality Search Engines
- Censys - Searcher that monitors and analyzes devices.
- Fofa - Asset search and analysis tool.
Pastebins
- BeanPaste - A tiny way to share text.
- Cryptobin - The Ultimate Secure Pastebin
- lesma.eu - Simple paste app friendly with browser and command line.
- PastBin.net - Similar to Pastebin website where you can store code/text online for a set period of time and share to anyone anywhere. Search Option Available.
- Pastebin - Store code/text online for a set period of time and share to anybody on earth.
- Paste.Monster - Share your thoughts online. API Available.
- PasteShr - Store any text online for easy sharing. Search option available!
- snippet.host - Minimal text and code snippet hosting.
- TextBin - Secure pastebin where you can paste and store any type of text or code snippets online and share it with your friends.
- Textbin-Code - SECURE YOUR CODE!
- Verybin - Anonymous and encrypted pastebin. Data is encrypted/decrypted in the browser using 256 bits AES and no IP address logged.
- ZBin - Private & Secure Pastebin.
Social Media Tools / Telegram
- Telegram Channel Joiner (⭐1) - grow your Free and Premium Telegram accounts easily with this channel joiner script.
- Telegram channels scraper TeleGraphite (⭐105) - Telegram Scraper & JSON Exporter & telegram channels scraper.
Email Search / Email Check / Steam
- Minerva OSINT - Email search tool that finds and aggregates data on a target email from over a hundred websites.
Domain and IP Research / Steam
- Crypto Scam & Crypto Phishing URL Threat Intel Feed (⭐23) - A fresh feed of crypto phishing and crypto scam websites. Automatically updated daily.
Apr 29, 2025
Social Media Tools / LinkedIn
Social Media Tools / Telegram
- TgramSearch - Convenient search for Telegram channels, as well as a structured catalog with over 700000 Telegram channels. Available in 8+ Languages.
- Teleteg - The ultimate Telegram search engine. 10 results for free plan.
People Investigations / Steam
- Apollo.io - Free B2B Phone Number & Email Finder. 1200 credits per user/year for free plan.
- ContactOut - Unlock the world's most accurate contact data. Find emails & phone for 300M professionals.
Email Search / Email Check / Steam
- Secureito - Secureito detects data breaches involving your email and suggests protection measures.
Domain and IP Research / Steam
- aa419 Fake Sites Database - The site lists fraudulent websites, such as fake banks and online scams, identified by the Artists Against 419 community.
Apr 23, 2025
Speciality Search Engines
- Browserleaks - BrowserLeaks tests your browser for privacy and fingerprinting leaks
- ODIN - Used to search for Hosts, CVEs & Exposed Buckets/Files and shows a website is vulnerable or not. 10 Free Searches Per Day.
Username Check / Steam
- Cupidcr4wl (⭐4) - Username and phone number search tool that crawls adult content platforms to see if a targeted account or person is present.
Domain and IP Research / Steam
- IP Geolocation API DB-IP - Pprovides IP geolocation and intelligence.
Other Tools / Steam
- Unfurl - Unfurl analyzes and breaks down URLs into useful forensic components for digital investigation.
Apr 10, 2025
Speciality Search Engines
- Cisco Talos Intelligence - IP and Domain Reputation Center for real-time threat detection
Username Check / Steam
- Social Analyzer (⭐12k) - API, CLI, and Web App for analyzing and finding a person's profile in 1000 social media \ websites
Mar 28, 2025
Email Search / Email Check / Steam
- Spamhaus - Lookup Reputation Checker.
Mar 20, 2025
Speciality Search Engines
- Abuseipdb - Repository of abuses reported by system administrators for IPs, Domains, and subnets
Dark Web Search Engines Search Engines
Mar 09, 2025
People Investigations / Steam
- Clustermaps - Find people and address information associated with them
- InfoTracer - Search for people. (Searches are paid)
- PeekYou - PeekYou offers the ability to search for people with checks done against more sites. Can check for arrest records as well.
- Socialcatfish - Superextensive people search which works worldwide. Searches are done from 200 Billion records.
- UK Phone Book - Search people in a similar way as 192.com
Domain and IP Research / Steam
- MetaDefender - Threat analysis service for URLs, files, certificates, domains, and suspicious hashes.
Jan 31, 2025
DNS / Steam
- Columbus Project (⭐32) - Columbus Project is an advanced subdomain discovery service with fast, powerful and easy to use API.
Jan 22, 2025
Image Analysis / Steam
- ProfileImageIntel - Social media and WhatsApp profile image tool to find when a profile image was uploaded.
Dec 17, 2024
Email Search / Email Check / Steam
- LeakRadar - Scans for compromised emails and domains in stealer logs, offering proactive breach prevention and real-time alerts.
Phone Number Research / Steam
- SearchPeopleFREE - a reverse name, address, email address, or phone lookup that allows you to discover the owner of a phone number or who lives at an address.
- USPhoneBook - Reverse phone and address lookups and leading data.
Other Tools / Steam
- Cyberbro (⭐385) - A self-hosted application, available as a Dockerized, for effortless searching and reputation checking of observables. Extracts IoCs from raw input and check their reputation using multiple services.
- CyberGordon - CyberGordon is a threat intelligence search engine. It leverages 30+ sources.
Dec 07, 2024
Pastebins
Code Search
- Sourcebot - Index thousands of repos on your machine and search through them in a fast, powerful, and modern web interface.
Social Media Tools / Reddit
- Arctic Shift (⭐391) - A tool for accessing and interacting with large dumps of Reddit data, offering an API and web interface for research and moderation purposes.
- Pushshift API - A powerful API that provides access to historical Reddit data, including posts, comments, and metadata for analysis and research—more information here.
- Pullpush - PullPush is a service for the indexing and retrieval of content that Reddit users have submitted to Reddit. Helpful for finding deleted/removed posts & comments.
- REDARCS - Reddit archives 2005-2023.
- RedditMetis - RedditMetis is a Reddit user analysis tool to see the summary and statistics for a Reddit account, including top posts and user activity etc.
Social Media Tools / Telegram
- Maltego Telegram (⭐240) - Rich Set of Entities & Transforms for OSINT on Telegram with Maltego.
Nov 26, 2024
Domain and IP Research / Steam
- Webscout - A Swiss Army knife for scaled intelligence and metadata on IP addresses and domains.
Geospatial Research and Mapping Tools / Steam
Nov 12, 2024
Phone Number Research / Steam
- InMobPrefix (⭐4) - Dataset, charts, models about mobile phone numbers prefixes in India along with their respective state, operator.
DNS / Steam
- Amass (⭐13k) - 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.
Oct 31, 2024
Email Search / Email Check / Steam
- OSINTEye (⭐15) - OSINT Eye: A WPF Desktop Application for GitHub Intelligence, Social Media Reconnaissance, and Subdomain Discovery
Oct 27, 2024
Domain and IP Research / Steam
- SubDomainRadar.io - Fast subdomain finder with multiple search modes and the most extensive data sources, offering real-time notifications.
Image Search / Steam
- Faceagle - Faceagle is a face recognition search engine.
Video Search and Other Video Tools / Steam
- DownloadHelper - Download any video from any websites, it just works!
Threat Intelligence / Steam
- onion-lookup - Free online service and API for checking the existence of Tor hidden services (.onion address) and retrieving their associated metadata. onion-lookup relies on an private AIL instance to obtain the metadata.
Sep 20, 2024
Company Research / Steam
- TheWebCo - The single source of people intelligence.
Social Media Tools / Steam
- OSINT-Steam - An open-source (⭐11) tool that returns public information, such as friends list and possible locations, from Steam profiles.
Email Search / Email Check / Steam
- SherlockEye - Search for publicly available data linked to an email address across multiple sources on the internet.
DNS / Steam
- Merklemap - Discover and enumerate all subdomains associated with a website, including those not publicly advertised. Works by ingesting certificate transparency logs.
OSINT Blogs / Steam
Other Resources / Steam
Aug 31, 2024
Other Tools / Steam
- DNSservices - Discover embedded services in a domain's DNS records within seconds
- Sintelix - Sintelix is an open source intelligence (OSINT) and graphical link analysis tool for gathering and connecting information for investigative tasks.
Jul 30, 2024
Code Search
- Code Finder - The ultimate search engine for finding GitHub repositories
Username Check / Steam
- Digital Footprint Check - Check for registered username on 100s of sites for free.
Jul 07, 2024
Real-Time Search, Social Media Search, and General Social Media Tools
- Castrick - Find social media accounts with email, username and phone number
People Investigations / Steam
- Voter Records - Free political research tool to study more than 100 Million US voter records.
Phone Number Research / Steam
- CallerID Test - Get caller ID and telco carrier information back from a phone number.
- Infobel - Search 164+ million records across 73 countries for companies and individuals. Find places, local service providers, their contact details, reviews, opening hours and more.
- Truecaller - Global reverse phone number search.
- Twilio - Look up a phone numbers carrier type, location, etc. Twilio offers free accounts that come with credits you can use with their API. Each lookup is only ~$0.01-$0.02 typically on US and CAN numbers.
Vehicle / Automobile Research / Steam
- FaxVIN - Vehicle History Reports. A license plate lookup tool that returns info like VIN, make & model of vehicle, age, and numerous other details.
- EpicVIN - Vehicle reports are compiled from various data sources, including historical accident records from state agencies and other entities like NMVTIS. License plate lookup that returns VIN and car millage.
Domain and IP Research / Steam
- Hudson Rock - is a free cybercrime intelligence toolkit to check exposure in Infostealer malware infection.
- urlDNA - Unleash website insights! urldna.io analyzes url, monitors brands and track phishing sites.
Image Search / Steam
- Dupli Checker - You can search for an image by uploading + with URL or typing the keyword or any word you want to explore related to images.
- Pixsy - Take back control of your images. See where & how your images are being used online!
Image Analysis / Steam
- JIMPL - Online EXIF data viewer
Geospatial Research and Mapping Tools / Steam
Infographics and Data Visualization / Steam
- Preceden - Create a Visual Timeline About Any Topic
Other Tools / Steam
- LinkScope Client (⭐374) - LinkScope Client Github repository.
- pygreynoise (⭐152) - Greynoise Python Library
- SpiderFoot (⭐14k) - SpiderFoot Github repository.
Feb 23, 2024
Domain and IP Research / Steam
- TinyScan - Another powerful URL scan tool that provides comprehensive information about any given URL. Get insights into IP address, location, screenshots, technology stack, performance metrics, and more.
Feb 17, 2024
Real-Time Search, Social Media Search, and General Social Media Tools
- Predicta Search - Search for social accounts with e-mail and phone
Username Check / Steam
- CheckUser - search username across social networks
People Investigations / Steam
- FamilyTreeNow - Research family and geneology, no registration required, can search addresses, phone numbers, and email addresses as well as associations.
- VineLink - Inmate search and notification service for victims of crime, linked to multiple correctional facilities' booking systems in the U.S.
Email Search / Email Check / Steam
- Gitrecon (⭐35) - Node.js tool to scan GitHub repositories for exposed email addresses and names.
Domain and IP Research / Steam
- Validin - Website and API to search current and historical DNS records for free
Image Search / Steam
- GeoSpyer (⭐358) - Python tool using Graylark's AI-powered geo-location service to uncover the location where photos were taken.
Image Analysis / Steam
- GeoSpy - AI based image osint tool
Web Monitoring / Steam
Other Tools / Steam
- Discoshell (⭐77) - A simple discovery script that uses popular tools like subfinder, amass, puredns, alterx, massdns and others
- OSINT-Tool - A browser extension that gives you access to a suite of OSINT utilities (Dehashed, Epieos, Domaintools, Exif data, Reverse image search, etc) directly on any webpage you visit.
Sep 19, 2023
VPN Services / Steam
- OffShore.cat - list of vpns for the privacy conscious
Jul 25, 2023
Domain and IP Research / Steam
- Virus Total - Analyse suspicious domains, IPs URLs and files to detect malware and other breaches
Jul 21, 2023
Related Awesome Lists / Steam
- awesome-anti-forensic (⭐868) by @remiflavien1
- awesome-ctf (⭐10k) by @apsdehal
- awesome-forensics (⭐4.3k) by @cugu
- awesome-hacking (⭐14k) by @carpedm20
- awesome-honeypots (⭐9.3k) by @paralax
- awesome-incident-response (⭐8.1k) by @meirwah
- awesome-lockpicking (⭐1.6k) by @fabacab
- awesome-malware-analysis (⭐13k) by @rshipp
- awesome-pentest (⭐23k) by @enaqx
- awesome-privacy (⭐7.7k) by @Lissy93
- awesome-sec-talks (⭐4.1k) by @PaulSec
- awesome-security (⭐13k) by @sbilly
- awesome-threat-intelligence (⭐8.8k) by @hslatman
- infosec reference (⭐5.7k) by @rmusser01
- personal-security-checklist (⭐18k) by @Lissy93
- SecLists (⭐63k) by @danielmiessler
- security-list (⭐1.8k) by @zbetcheckin
Jul 19, 2023
Domain and IP Research / Steam
- Web-Check - All-in-one tool for viewing website and server meta data.
Jul 14, 2023
Geospatial Research and Mapping Tools / Steam
Jun 20, 2023
Domain and IP Research / Steam
- WebsiteTechMiner.py (⭐9) - automates gathering website profiling data into a CSV from the "BuiltWith" or "Wappalyzer" API for tech stack information, technographic data, website reports, website tech lookups, website architecture lookups, etc.
Jun 07, 2023
General Search
- Aol - The web for America.
- Ask - Ask something and get a answer.
- Bing - Microsoft´s search engine.
- Goodsearch - a search engine for shopping deals online.
- Google Search - Most popular search engine.
- Instya - You can searching shopping sites, dictionaries, answer sites, news, images, videos and much more.
- Lycos - A search engine for pictures, videos, news and products.
- Search.com - Search the Web by searching the best engines from one place.
- Wolfram Alpha - Wolfram Alpha is a computational knowledge engine (answer engine) developed by Wolfram Alpha. It will compute expert-level answers using Wolfram’s breakthrough algorithms, knowledgebase and AI technology.
- Yahoo! Search - The search engine that helps you find exactly what you're looking for.
- YOU - AI search engine.
Visual Search and Clustering Search Engines
- Carrot2 - Organizes your search results into topics.
Language Tools / Steam
- see the Awesome Translations list (⭐162)
Image Search / Steam
- PimEyes - an online face search engine that goes through the Internet to find pictures containing given faces.
May 26, 2023
Real-Time Search, Social Media Search, and General Social Media Tools
- Epieos - Search for social accounts with e-mail and phone
Other Tools / Steam
- SpiderSuite (⭐642) - An advance, cross-platform, GUI web security crawler.
Feb 03, 2023
Username Check / Steam
- NexFil (⭐2.3k) - checks username from almost all social network sites.
- Seekr (⭐633) A multi-purpose all in one toolkit for gathering and managing OSINT-Data with a neat web-interface. Can be used for note taking and username checking.
Video Search and Other Video Tools / Steam
- Find YouTube Video - Searches currently 5 YouTube archives for specific videos by ID, which is really useful for finding deleted or private YouTube videos.
- Tubuep (⭐446) - Downloads online videos via yt-dlp, then reuploads them to the Internet Archive for preservation. Note: if you would like to archive comments too, you need to install version 0.0.33 and use the --get-comments flag, however you will still have the new yt-dlp fixes and features, but existing tubeup bugs cannot be fixed, unless you do manual work.
- yt-dlp (⭐111k) - Downloads videos from almost any online platform, along with information, thumbnails, subtitles, descriptions, and comments (comments only on a select few sites like Youtube and a few small sites). If a site is not supported, or a useful or crucial piece of metadata, including comments, is missing, create an issue.
Jan 12, 2023
Infographics and Data Visualization / Steam
- Perspective (⭐9.1k) - interactive data visualization and analytics component, well-suited for large, streaming and static datasets.
Jan 11, 2023
General Search
- Brave - a private, independent, and transparent search engine.
Speciality Search Engines
- Criminal IP - Cyber Threat Intelligence Search Engine and Attack Surface Management(ASM) platform
Code Search
- SourceGraph - Search code from millions of open source repositories.
Email Search / Email Check / Steam
- Blackbird (⭐3.5k) - Search for accounts associated with a given email across various platforms.
- mxtoolbox - Free online tools to investigate/troubleshoot email server issues.
- Snov.io - Find email addresses on any website.
Username Check / Steam
- NameKetchup - checks domain name and username in popular social media sites and platforms.
Image Search / Steam
- FaceCheck.ID - Facial recognition search engine.
Phone Number Research / Steam
- Reverse Phone Check - Look up names, addresses, phone numbers, or emails and anonymously discover information about yourself, family, friends, or old schoolmates. Powered by infotracer.com
Academic Resources and Grey Literature / Steam
- OA.mg A database of over 240 million scientific works, with PDFs for all Open Access papers in their catalogue (~ 40 million)
Other Tools / Steam
- Glit (⭐50) - Retrieve all mails of users related to a git repository, a git user or a git organization.
- SerpApi - Scrapes Google search and 25+ search engines with ease and retruns a raw JSON. Supports 10 API wrappers.
- SerpScan (⭐66) - Powerful PHP script designed to allow you to leverage the power of dorking straight from the comfort of your command line. Analyzes data from Google, Bing, Yahoo, Yandex, and Badiu.
Oct 04, 2022
Social Media Tools / Twitter
- ExportData - Data export tool for historical tweets, followers & followings and historical trends.
Sep 29, 2022
General Search
- Mojeek - A growing independent search engine which does not track you.
People Investigations / Steam
Sep 23, 2022
Privacy and Encryption Tools / Steam
Sep 16, 2022
Domain and IP Research / Steam
- Majestic - Find out who links to your website.
- w3snoop - is a website that gives you a free and comprehensive report about a specific website.
- WebMeUp - is the Web's freshest and fastest growing backlink index, and the primary source of backlink data for SEO PowerSuite.
- Whois Arin Online - is a web service for Whois data contained within ARIN's registration database
Sep 15, 2022
File Search
- de digger - is a website that allows you to find any types of files that are publicly available in a Google Drive.
Email Search / Email Check / Steam
- Email Format - is a website that allows you to find email address formats used by different companies.
Job Search Resources / Steam
- Indeed - is an online job searching website that gives job seekers free access to search for a job, post their resumes, and research companies.
Domain and IP Research / Steam
- IP Location - is used for mapping of an IP address or MAC address to the real-world geographic location of an Internet-connected computing or a mobile device.
- IPFingerprints - is used to find the approximate geographic location of an IP address along with some other useful information including ISP, TimeZone, Area Code, State.
- Netcraft Site Report - is an online database that will provide you a report with detail information about a particular website and the history associated with it.
- Pentest-Tools.com - uses advanced search operators (Google Dorks) to find juicy information about target websites.
- Robtex - is an IP address and domain name based researching websites that offers multiple services such as Reverse DNS Lookup, Whois, and AS Macros.
- urlscan - is a free service to scan and analyse websites.
VPN Services / Steam
- VPN Comparison by That One Privacy Guy - is a summary list of top best VPN services.
Sep 14, 2022
Web History and Website Capture / Steam
- Archive.is - is a website that allows you to archive a snapshot of you websites that will always remains online evenif the original page disappears.
Privacy and Encryption Tools / Steam
- KeePass Password Safe - is a free and open-source password manager that uses the most secure encryption algorithms to safegard your passwords.
Sep 13, 2022
Speciality Search Engines
- Shodan - Shodan is a search engine for the IOT(Internet of Things) that allows you to search variety of servers that are connected to the internet using various searching filters.
Email Search / Email Check / Steam
- EmailHippo - is an email address verification platform that will check whether a given email address exist or not.
Sep 10, 2022
Domain and IP Research / Steam
- BuiltWith - is a website that will help you find out all the technologies used to build a particular websites.
- DNSDumpster - is a website that will help you discover hosts related to a specific domain.
Sep 09, 2022
Code Search
- grep.app - Searches code from the entire github public repositories for a given specific string or using regular expression.
Username Check / Steam
- Name Checkup - is a search tool that allows you to check the avilability of a givrn username from all over the social media. Inaddition it also sllows you to check the avilability of a given domain name.
Browsers / Steam
- Brave - is an open-source web browser that allows you to completely block ads and website trackers.
Infographics and Data Visualization / Steam
- Chart.js - a javascript library that allows you to create charts easly
- D3js - is a powerful data visualization javascript library.
Social Network Analysis / Steam
- Gephi - is an open-source graph and network visualization software.
Aug 29, 2022
Image Analysis / Steam
Aug 27, 2022
Speciality Search Engines
- BeVigil - Search for assets like Subdomains, URLs, Parameters in mobile applications
Other Tools / Steam
- BeVigil-CLI (⭐120) - A unified command line interface and python library for using BeVigil OSINT API to search for assets such as subdomains, URLs, applications indexed from mobile applications.
Aug 17, 2022
Other Resources / Steam
- Bellingcat Online Researcher Survey: Tool Wishes — Wishlist of OSINT tools from a February Bellingcat survey.
- These Are the Tools Open Source Researchers Say They Need — Results of a survey Bellingcat conducted in February 2022.
Aug 11, 2022
Other Tools / Steam
- CrowdSec (⭐10k) - An open source, free, and collaborative IPS/IDS software written in Go, able to analyze visitor behavior & provide an adapted response to all kinds of attacks.
Aug 02, 2022
Username Check / Steam
- Maigret (⭐15k) - Collect a dossier on a person by username.
Jul 31, 2022
Other Tools / Steam
- LinkScope - LinkScope is an open source intelligence (OSINT) graphical link analysis tool and automation platform for gathering and connecting information for investigative tasks.
- SpiderFoot - SpiderFoot is an open source intelligence (OSINT) automation platform with over 200 modules for threat intelligence, attack surface monitoring, security assessments and asset discovery.
Jul 21, 2022
Social Media Tools / Facebook
- haveibeenzuckered - A large dataset containing 533 million Facebook accounts was made available for download. The data was obtained by exploiting a vulnerability that was, according to Facebook, corrected in August 2019. Check if a telephone number is present within the Facebook data breach.
Video Search and Other Video Tools / Steam
- Filmot - Search within YouTube subtitles. Indexing over 573 million captions across 528 million videos and 45 million channels.
Maritime / Steam
- VesselFinder - a FREE AIS vessel tracking web site. VesselFinder displays real time ship positions and marine traffic detected by global AIS network.
Jun 15, 2022
Domain and IP Research / Steam
- Azure Tenant Resolution by PingCastle - Search for Azure Tenant using its domain name or its ID
May 24, 2022
Pastebins
- doxbin - A dox style pastebin ran by hackers
Social Media Tools / Instagram
- Osintgram (⭐11k) - Osintgram offers an interactive shell to perform analysis on Instagram account of any users by its nickname.
Social Media Tools / Telegram
- Telegago - A Google Advanced Search specifically for finding public and private Telegram Channels and Chatrooms.
May 22, 2022
Pastebins
May 21, 2022
Geospatial Research and Mapping Tools / Steam
- Worldwide OSINT Tools Map - A global map of databases and OSINT sources by applicable location.
May 15, 2022
Company Research / Steam
- Caselaw Access Project - Collection of full text of historical (not up-to-date) cases from United States state appellate courts.
- Corporate Information - Aggregated information from publicly available sources on publicly traded companies worldwide.
- CrunchBase - Detailed information on startup businesses, with a specific focus on funding sources and funding procedures used by specific businesses.
- Vault - Well-known ranking of largest United States Corporations.
May 07, 2022
Expert Search / Steam
- MuckRack - Extensive database of U.S. government public records obtained through federal and state public records requests. Automated tool that will make public records requests and follow up until records are obtained on your behalf.
- Patent Attorneys/Agent Search - Official listing of U.S. attorneys qualified to represent individuals in U.S. patent office proceedings.
Company Research / Steam
- EDGAR U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission Filings - Periodic reports and extensive corporate disclosures from all businesses publicly traded in the United States.
May 06, 2022
Company Research / Steam
- OpenCorporates - Global search of registered corporate entities and their associated individual officers or investors.
Domain and IP Research / Steam
- WiGLE - Wi-fi "wardriving" database. Contains a global map containing crowdsourced information on the location, name, and other properties of wi-fi networks. Software available to download to contribute data to the public infoset.
Apr 29, 2022
Pastebins
Apr 16, 2022
Code Search
- NerdyData - Search engine for source code.
Social Media Tools / Reddit
- Reddit Comment Lookup - Search for reddit comments by reddit username.
Apr 11, 2022
Other Tools / Steam
- Sub3 Suite (⭐542) - A research-grade suite of tools for intelligence gathering & target mapping with both active and passive(100+ modules) intelligence gathering capabilities.
Mar 29, 2022
Web History and Website Capture / Steam
- waybackpy (⭐526) - Python package & CLI tool that interfaces the Wayback Machine APIs.
Mar 28, 2022
Social Media Tools / Facebook
- Facebook Friend List Scraper (⭐272) - Tool for scraping large Facebook friend lists without being rate-limited.
Mar 05, 2022
Social Media Tools / Facebook
- Find my Facebook ID - To find your Facebook personal numeric ID for facebook graph API operations, fb:admins, social plugins.
Feb 27, 2022
Other Tools / Steam
- DuckDuckGo URL scraper (⭐26) - A simple DuckDuckGo URL scraper.
Feb 16, 2022
Username Check / Steam
- User Searcher - User-Searcher is a powerful and free tool to help you search username in 2000+ websites.
Jan 24, 2022
Speciality Search Engines
Jan 23, 2022
Phone Number Research / Steam
- EmobileTracker.com - a service specifically designed to Track Mobile Number, Location on Google Map including information such as the owner's Name,Location,Country,Telecom provider.
Jan 06, 2022
Main National Search Engines
Dec 21, 2021
People Investigations / Steam
- OpenSanctions - Information on sanctions and public office holders.
Company Research / Steam
Dec 19, 2021
Social Media Tools / Instagram
- Sterra (⭐613) - Instagram OSINT tool to export and analyse followers | following with their details
Dec 09, 2021
Geospatial Research and Mapping Tools / Steam
- SAS Planet - Software used to view, download and stitch satellite images.
Nov 17, 2021
Social Media Tools / Telegram
- Telegram Nearby Map (⭐1.1k) - Webapp based on OpenStreetMap and the official Telegram library to find the position of nearby users.
Keywords Discovery and Research / Steam
Nov 16, 2021
Real-Time Search, Social Media Search, and General Social Media Tools
- IDCrawl - Search for a name in popular social networks.
Username Check / Steam
- IDCrawl - Search for a username in popular social networks.
Nov 12, 2021
Web History and Website Capture / Steam
Oct 28, 2021
Email Search / Email Check / Steam
- MailTester - hunt for emails and improve your email deliverability
Data and Statistics / Steam
Sep 18, 2021
Username Check / Steam
- Snoop (⭐3.3k) - Search for a nickname on the web (OSINT world)
Aug 09, 2021
Email Search / Email Check / Steam
- Ghunt (⭐16k) - Investigate Google emails and documents.
Jul 27, 2021
Threat Intelligence / Steam
- GitGuardian - Public GitHub Monitoring - Monitor public GitHub repositories in real time. Detect secrets and sensitive information to prevent hackers from using GitHub as a backdoor to your business.
Jul 19, 2021
Email Search / Email Check / Steam
- Email Permutator - a powerful tool designed to aid professionals in generating a range of potential email addresses for a specific contact.
May 31, 2021
Speciality Search Engines
- GrayhatWarfare - Searches and indexes open Amazon S3 buckets, allowing users to find and explore potentially exposed data.
File Search
Pastebins
Code Search
Real-Time Search, Social Media Search, and General Social Media Tools
Social Media Tools / VKontakte
Forums and Discussion Boards Search / Steam
Username Check / Steam
- WhatsMyName - check for usernames across many different platforms.
People Investigations / Steam
Phone Number Research / Steam
- FreeCarrierLookup - enter a phone number and we'll return the carrier name and whether the number is wireless or landline. We also return the email-to-SMS and email-to-MMS gateway addresses for USA and Canadian* phone numbers.
- Sync.ME - a caller ID and spam blocker app.
Company Research / Steam
Job Search Resources / Steam
Q&A Sites / Steam
Image Search / Steam
- Search4faces - a service for searching people on the Internet by photo.
Image Analysis / Steam
Video Search and Other Video Tools / Steam
- Insecam - Live cameras directory
Geospatial Research and Mapping Tools / Steam
Infographics and Data Visualization / Steam
- Observable - a modern way to create powerful, performant, polyglot data apps built on open source.
Other Tools / Steam
- FOCA (⭐3.2k) - Tool to find metadata and hidden information in the documents.
- OSINT.SH - Information Gathering Toolset.
OSINT Videos / Steam
OSINT Blogs / Steam
Other Resources / Steam
May 24, 2021
Forums and Discussion Boards Search / Steam
May 23, 2021
Forums and Discussion Boards Search / Steam
May 22, 2021
Meta Search
Email Search / Email Check / Steam
- h8mail (⭐4.4k) - Password Breach Hunting and Email OSINT, locally or using premium services. Supports chasing down related email.
- Holehe (⭐8.7k) - allows you to check if the mail is used on different sites like twitter, instagram and will retrieve information on sites with the forgotten password function.
Video Search and Other Video Tools / Steam
- Frame by Frame - Browser plugin that allows you to watch YouTube videos frame by frame.
Geospatial Research and Mapping Tools / Steam
Other Tools / Steam
- Hunchly - Hunchly is a web capture tool designed specifically for online investigations.
OSINT Videos / Steam
OSINT Blogs / Steam
May 10, 2021
Speciality Search Engines
- Intelligence X - Paid OSINT Tool Allowing users to search for information across various sources including the dark web and public data leaks.
Expert Search / Steam
Mar 30, 2021
Social Media Tools / Reddit
- Universal Scammer List - This acts as the website-portion for the subreddit /r/universalscammerlist. That subreddit, in conjuction with this website and a reddit bot, manages a list of malicious reddit accounts and minimizes the damage they can deal. This list is referred to as the "USL" for short.
Feb 13, 2021
Geospatial Research and Mapping Tools / Steam
Dec 19, 2020
Email Search / Email Check / Steam
- LeakCheck - Data Breach Search Engine with 7.5B+ entries collected from more than 3000 databases. Search by e-mail, username, keyword, password or corporate domain name.
Nov 17, 2020
Phone Number Research / Steam
- PhoneInfoga (⭐14k) - Advanced information gathering & OSINT framework for phone numbers.
Oct 27, 2020
People Investigations / Steam
- 192 (UK) - Search by person, business, address. Limited free info, premium data upsell.
- 411 (US) - Search by person, phone number, address, and business. Limited free info, premium data upsell.
- Ancestry - Premium data, free trial with credit card.
- Black Book Online - Free. Nationwide directory of public record lookups.
- Canada411 - Search by person, phone number, and business. Free.
- Classmates - High-school focused people search. Free acounts allow creating a profile and viewing other members. Premium account required to contact other members.
- CrunchBase - Business information database, with a focus on investment, acquisition, and executive data. Ancillary focus on market research and connecting founders and investors.
- Family Search - Popular genealogy site. Free, but registration required. Funded by The Church Of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
- Federal Bureau of Prisons - Inmate Locator (US) - Search federal inmates incarcerated from 1982 to the present.
- Fold3 (US Military Records) - Search military records. Search filters limited with free access. Premium access requires subscription.
- Genealogy Bank - Premium data, free trial with credit card.
- Genealogy Links - Genealogy directory with over 50K links.
- Homemetry - Reverse address search and allows searching for properties for sale/rent..
- Kompass - Business directory and search.
- Reunion - People search. Limited free info, premium data upsell.
- SearchBug - People search. Limited free info, premium data upsell.
- Spokeo - People search. Limited free info, premium data upsell.
- The National Archives (UK) - Search UK national archives.
- White Pages (US) - People search. Limited free info, premium data upsell.
Company Research / Steam
- Judyrecords - Free. Nationwide search of 400 million+ United States court cases.
- UniCourt - Limited free searches, premium data upsell. Nationwide search of 100 million+ United States court cases.
Oct 24, 2020
Main National Search Engines
Browsers / Steam
Oct 21, 2020
Real-Time Search, Social Media Search, and General Social Media Tools
- Audiense - Tool to identify relevant audience, discover actionable insights and inform strategies to grow your business.
- Buzz sumo - "Use our content insights to generate ideas, create high-performing content, monitor your performance and identify influencers."
Username Check / Steam
- Sherlock (⭐64k) - Search for a username in multiple platforms/websites.
DNS / Steam
- findsubdomains - Automatically scans different sources to collect as many subdomains as can. Validate all the data through various tools and services to provide correct results without waiting.
Oct 09, 2020
Social Media Tools / Twitter
- MyTweetAlerts - A tool to create custom email alerts based on Twitter search.
Oct 04, 2020
Threat Intelligence / Steam
- OnionScan (⭐3k) - Free and open source tool for investigating the Dark Web. Its main goal is to help researchers and investigators monitor and track Dark Web sites.
Sep 29, 2020
Pastebins
- cl1p - The Internet Clipboard.
- controlc - The easiest way to host your text.
Code Search
- AnalyzeID - Find Other Websites Owned By The Same Person
News / Steam
Jun 14, 2020
Email Search / Email Check / Steam
- Reacher - Real-time email verification API, written in Rust, 100% open-source.
Apr 11, 2020
Social Media Tools / Instagram
- Toutatis (⭐2.4k) - a tool that allows you to extract information from instagrams accounts such as s, phone numbers and more
Mar 23, 2020
Privacy and Encryption Tools / Steam
Feb 18, 2020
Email Search / Email Check / Steam
- DeHashed - DeHashed helps prevent ATO with our extensive data set & breach notification solution. Match employee and consumer logins against the world’s largest repository of aggregated publicly available assets leaked from third-party breaches. Secure passwords before criminals can abuse stolen information, and protect your enterprise.
Feb 01, 2020
Other Tools / Steam
- Maltego - Maltego is an open source intelligence (OSINT) and graphical link analysis tool for gathering and connecting information for investigative tasks.
Aug 23, 2019
Infographics and Data Visualization / Steam
Aug 20, 2019
Other Tools / Steam
- Greynoise - "Anti-Threat Intelligence" Greynoise characterizes the background noise of the internet, so the user can focus on what is actually important.
Jul 17, 2019
Email Search / Email Check / Steam
- Hunter - Hunter lets you find email addresses in seconds and connect with the people that matter for your business.
Threat Intelligence / Steam
- OTX AlienVault - Open Threat Exchange is the neighborhood watch of the global intelligence community. It enables private companies, independent security researchers, and government agencies to openly collaborate and share the latest information about emerging threats, attack methods, and malicious actors, promoting greater security across the entire community.
- REScure Threat Intel Feed - REScure is an independent threat intelligence project which we undertook to enhance our understanding of distributed systems, their integration, the nature of threat intelligence and how to efficiently collect, store, consume, distribute it.
Jul 16, 2019
Web History and Website Capture / Steam
Apr 11, 2019
Domain and IP Research / Steam
- 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.
Feb 13, 2019
Other Tools / Steam
- Belati (⭐544) - The Traditional Swiss Army Knife For OSINT. Belati is tool for Collecting Public Data & Public Document from Website and other service for OSINT purpose.
- Outwit - Find, grab and organize all kinds of data and media from online sources.
- Pown Recon (⭐419) - Target reconnaissance framework powered by graph theory.
- SecApps Recon - Information gathering and target reconnaissance tool and UI.
Jan 16, 2019
Domain and IP Research / Steam
- Squatm3gator (⭐31) - Enumerate available domains generated modifying the original domain name through different cybersquatting techniques
Jan 15, 2019
Social Media Tools / Reddit
- Reddit Suite - Enhances your reddit experience.
- Reddit User Analyser - reddit user account analyzer.
Email Search / Email Check / Steam
- Have I Been Pwned - Search across multiple data breaches to see if your email address has been compromised.
- VoilaNorbert - Find anyone's contact information for lead research or talent acquisition.
Domain and IP Research / Steam
- ahrefs - A tool for backlink research, organic traffic research, keyword research, content marketing & more.
- Similar Web - Compare any website traffic statistics & analytics.
- URLVoid - Analyzes a website through multiple blacklist engines and online reputation tools to facilitate the detection of fraudulent and malicious websites.
Image Search / Steam
- TinEye - Reverse image search engine.
Academic Resources and Grey Literature / Steam
- PubMed - Search more than 27 millions citations for biomedical literature from MEDLINE, life science journals, and online books.
Fact Checking / Steam
- Snopes - The definitive Internet reference source for urban legends, folklore, myths, rumors, and misinformation.
Web Monitoring / Steam
- Google Alerts - A content change detection and notification service.
Dec 29, 2018
Other Tools / Steam
- sn0int (⭐2.2k) - Semi-automatic OSINT framework and package manager.
Oct 18, 2018
Phone Number Research / Steam
- Phone Validator - Pretty accurate phone lookup service, particularly good against Google Voice numbers.
Other Tools / Steam
- Photon (⭐12k) - Crawler designed for OSINT
Oct 17, 2018
Other Tools / Steam
- Zen (⭐572) - Find email addresses of Github users urls and other data effortlessly
Oct 05, 2018
Domain and IP Research / Steam
Jul 12, 2018
Other Tools / Steam
- Orbit (⭐563) - Draws relationships between crypto wallets with recursive crawling of transaction history.
Jun 27, 2018
Domain and IP Research / Steam
Jun 20, 2018
Fact Checking / Steam
Jun 09, 2018
Other Tools / Steam
- The Harvester (⭐13k) - Gather emails, subdomains, hosts, employee names, open ports and banners from different public sources like search engines, PGP key servers and SHODAN computer database.
Apr 22, 2018
Privacy and Encryption Tools / Steam
Jan 31, 2018
Academic Resources and Grey Literature / Steam
- Leibniz Information Centre For Science and Technology University Library - indexes all reports of German publicly funded projects and many scientific papers.
Jan 25, 2018
Academic Resources and Grey Literature / Steam
- 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.
Offline Browsing / Steam
- A1 Website Download - Download entire websites to disk.
- 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.
Dec 06, 2017
Similar Sites Search
- SimilarSites - Discover websites that are similar to each other
- SitesLike - Find similar websites by category
Sep 12, 2017
Main National Search Engines
- Alleba (Philippines) - Philippines search engine
- Baidu (China) - The major search engine used in China
Aug 07, 2017
Other Tools / Steam
- Datasploit (⭐3.1k) - Tool to perform various OSINT techniques on usernames, emails addresses, and domains.
Jun 28, 2017
Image Analysis / Steam
Jun 03, 2017
Code Search
- SearchCode - Help find real world examples of functions, API's and libraries across 10+ sources.
Social Media Tools / Reddit
- Imgur - The most popular image hosting website used by redditors.
- 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.
- Subreddits - Discover new subreddits.
- Reddit Comment Search - Analyze a reddit users by comment history.
Blog Search / Steam
- Notey - Blog post search engine.
Phone Number Research / Steam
- Spy Dialer - Get the voicemail of a cell phone & owner name lookup.
Domain and IP Research / Steam
- Domain Tools - Whois lookup and domain/ip historical data.
- 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.
- IPVoid - IP address toolset.
Web History and Website Capture / Steam
- Wayback Machine - Explore the history of a website.
Academic Resources and Grey Literature / Steam
- JSTOR - Search over 10 million academic journal articles, books, and primary sources.
Other Tools / Steam
- Barcode Reader - Decode barcodes in C#, VB, Java, C\C++, Delphi, PHP and other languages.
- Intrigue Core - Framework for attack surface discovery.
- OpenRefine - Free & open source power tool for working with messy data and improving it.
- OSINT Framework - Web based framework for OSINT.
- OsintStalker (⭐661) - Python script for Facebook and geolocation OSINT.
- QuickCode - Python and R data analysis environment.
Jun 02, 2017
General Search
- DuckDuckGo - an Internet search engine that emphasizes protecting searchers' privacy.
Phone Number Research / Steam
- Reverse Phone Lookup - Detailed information about phone carrier, region, service provider, and switch information.
Domain and IP Research / Steam
- Who.is - Domain whois information.
Keywords Discovery and Research / Steam
- Google Adwords - Get monthly keyword volume data and stats.
- Google Trends - See how many users are searching for specific keywords.
Browsers / Steam
- 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.
May 16, 2017
Username Check / Steam
- Name Checkr - checks a domain and username across many platforms.
May 15, 2017
VPN Services / Steam
Apr 10, 2017
Fact Checking / Steam
Dec 20, 2016
OSINT Videos / Steam
Nov 30, 2016
General Search
Main National Search Engines
Meta Search
- Qwant - French search engine that relies on Microsoft Bing.
Speciality Search Engines
Data and Statistics / Steam
Visual Search and Clustering Search Engines
Similar Sites Search
Document and Slides Search
Major Social Networks
- Pinterest - is an image sharing social media service used to easly discover, share and save ideas using visual representation.
Job Search Resources / Steam
Real-Time Search, Social Media Search, and General Social Media Tools
Web Monitoring / Steam
Social Media Tools / Twitter
Social Media Tools / Facebook
- Fb-sleep-stats (⭐1.7k) - Use Facebook to track your friends’ sleeping habits.
- Lookup-ID.com - Looking for your Facebook profile ID / Group ID / Page ID.
Social Media Tools / Instagram
- Picodash - Find Instagram Target Audience and Influencers
Social Media Tools / Pinterest
Social Media Tools / VKontakte
Social Media Tools / Tumblr
Blog Search / Steam
Forums and Discussion Boards Search / Steam
Username Check / Steam
- Name Chk - Check over 30 domains and more than 90 social media account platforms.
- User Search - Find someone by username, email, phone number or picture across Social Networks, Dating Sites, Forums, Crypto Forums, Chat Sites and Blogs, 3000+ sites Supported!
Email Search / Email Check / Steam
- Email Address Validator - Improve deliverability, reduce bounce rates, prevent fraud and minimize funnel leaks.
- Peepmail - is a tool that allows you to discover business email addresses for users, even if their email address may not be publicly available or shared.
- Pipl - a provider of identity solutions.
- ThatsThem - Reverse Email Lookup.
- Toofr - Find Anyone’s Email Address in Seconds.
- Verify Email - The fastest and most accurate email verification tool.
Expert Search / Steam
- Academia - is a platform for sharing academic research.
Company Research / Steam
Domain and IP Research / Steam
Q&A Sites / Steam
Keywords Discovery and Research / Steam
Web History and Website Capture / Steam
Image Search / Steam
- Image Raider - is our reverse image search tool for completing individual searches. When you upload an image to this page, we'll scour the internet to find its source and all of the other pages where it has been posted.
- PicTriev - a face search engine.
Image Analysis / Steam
Video Search and Other Video Tools / Steam
- Deturl - Download a YouTube video from any web page.
- Earthcam - EarthCam is the leading network of live streaming webcams for tourism and entertainment.
Academic Resources and Grey Literature / Steam
- African Journal Online - is the world's largest and preeminent platform of African-published scholarly journals
Geospatial Research and Mapping Tools / Steam
Infographics and Data Visualization / Steam
- Leaflet - an open-source JavaScript library for mobile-friendly interactive maps.
- OpenLayers - A high-performance, feature-packed library for all your mapping needs.
- jqPlot - A Versatile and Expandable jQuery Plotting Plugin.
- Listify - Turn a Google spreadsheet into a beautiful, searchable listing in seconds.
- Lucidchart - the intelligent diagramming application that brings teams together to make better decisions and build the future.
- Nodebox - a family of tools gives you the leverage to create generative design the way you want.
- Palladio - Visualize complex historical data with ease.
News / Steam
News Digest and Discovery Tools / Steam
Fact Checking / Steam
Browsers / Steam
Offline Browsing / Steam
- Cyotek WebCopy - is a free tool for automatically downloading the content of a website onto your local device.
- Offliberty - is a website that lets you access any online content without a permanent Internet connection.
Social Network Analysis / Steam
Privacy and Encryption Tools / Steam
- Qubes - a security-focused desktop operating system that aims to provide security through isolation.