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...By entering a target username, Tookie-OSINT scans a list of supported sites and checks whether the username exists on those platforms. This approach removes the need for manual checks and significantly speeds up OSINT investigations. It is similar in concept to tools such as Sherlock, focusing on identifying user profiles across social media and other online services. Tookie-OSINT includes both command-line and optional web interface functionality, giving users flexible ways to run scans and analyze results. Tookie-OSINT was created to help beginners and aspiring security professionals learn about OSINT techniques.

email2phonenumber is an open source OSINT (Open Source Intelligence) tool designed to help researchers identify a target’s phone number using only an email address. The project was created as a proof-of-concept during research into new OSINT methodologies for extracting personal information from publicly accessible sources and account recovery mechanisms. The tool works by automating interactions with password reset processes on various online services, which may reveal masked phone number digits associated with an account. By combining these partial digits with other publicly available information, the tool attempts to reconstruct or identify the full phone number. ...