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Instagram OSINT Tool
Instagram OSINT tool for gathering profile data and public posts
InstagramOSINT is an open source intelligence (OSINT) tool designed to collect publicly accessible information from Instagram profiles. It retrieves details that are not always easily visible when browsing an Instagram account normally, allowing investigators, researchers, and developers to gather structured data about a target profile. It works by scraping publicly available profile information and extracting metadata from Instagram pages using Python. It collects various attributes such as the username, profile name, follower counts, account status indicators, and profile metadata. In addition to profile information, it can also retrieve post-related data and download publicly available images associated with an account. The results are saved locally in structured formats such as JSON-style data inside text files, making them easy to analyze or integrate into other applications. InstagramOSINT also exposes a Python API so developers can import the functionality. -
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X-osint
Open source OSINT tool for gathering data on emails, phones, and IPs
X-osint is an open source intelligence framework designed to collect and analyze publicly available information from multiple sources. It focuses on gathering useful and credible data about entities such as phone numbers, email addresses, and IP addresses using a range of automated OSINT techniques. It provides investigators and researchers with a centralized interface for running information-gathering tasks that would normally require multiple separate tools. X-osint can also perform domain-related reconnaissance activities such as subdomain enumeration, DNS lookups, and host discovery to help identify infrastructure associated with a target. In addition to network and domain intelligence, it includes features for extracting metadata from files or images and analyzing text content to uncover hidden details. X-osint is written primarily in Python and is designed to run in terminal environments, particularly on Linux systems and Termux setups. -
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Toutatis
Extract public Instagram account information from usernames
Toutatis is an open source command-line tool designed to extract publicly available information from Instagram accounts. It helps users gather various data points from a target profile by querying Instagram using a username or account ID. The tool can retrieve details such as profile metadata, follower counts, biography information, and other publicly accessible account attributes. In addition to basic profile data, Toutatis can also reveal contact details that may be publicly exposed, including email addresses and phone numbers associated with the account. The utility is implemented in Python and runs through a simple command-line interface, making it easy to integrate into OSINT workflows and automation scripts. Toutatis is commonly used in open source intelligence investigations, research tasks, and security analysis that involve collecting publicly available social media data. -
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WhatsApp Beacon
OSINT tool for tracking WhatsApp online status via Web automation
WhatsApp Beacon is an open source OSINT tool designed to monitor and analyze the online activity status of WhatsApp users through WhatsApp Web. It uses Selenium automation to interact with the web interface and detect when a target account goes online or offline. By continuously monitoring these changes, WhatsApp Beacon records connectivity patterns and builds a historical dataset of activity sessions. The collected information is stored in logs and a local database, allowing users to review behavioral patterns over time. In addition, the project supports exporting collected data to spreadsheet formats for further analysis or reporting. WhatsApp Beacon is designed to run across multiple operating systems and can operate in the background using headless browser automation. It is intended for educational and research purposes related to open-source intelligence (OSINT) and digital investigation. -
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fsociety
Modular CLI framework for managing penetration testing tools
fsociety is a modular penetration testing framework designed to provide a unified interface for running and managing a wide range of security tools. It focuses on simplifying penetration testing workflows by integrating multiple external security utilities into a single command line environment. Instead of implementing its own security scanners, the framework acts as a wrapper and orchestrator that helps users discover, install, and execute tools from various GitHub repositories. Its modular architecture organizes tools into categories such as information gathering, networking, web application security, and password testing. This structure allows users to quickly navigate through different security tasks while maintaining a consistent interface. fsociety can automatically clone and manage required tools, reducing the manual effort typically needed to set up a penetration testing toolkit. fsociety is distributed as a Python package. -
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Osintgram
Osintgram is a OSINT tool on Instagram
Osintgram is an OSINT (Open Source Intelligence) tool designed to extract, analyze, and store information from public Instagram profiles. It allows users to retrieve data like followers, hashtags, stories, tagged posts, and locations. The tool is often used by researchers and security analysts for data gathering, footprinting, and investigative purposes related to social media profiling. -
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holehe
Check if the mail is used on different sites
holehe is a Python-based OSINT utility designed to determine whether a specific email address is registered across a wide range of online services. The tool works by leveraging password-reset mechanisms and other public account-existence checks to infer whether an email is associated with accounts on major platforms. It supports more than a hundred websites and is commonly used during reconnaissance, digital investigations, and account exposure assessments. holehe is designed to operate quickly and quietly, emphasizing efficiency and minimal footprint during enumeration tasks. The project can be used both as a standalone command-line tool and as a library embedded into larger automation pipelines. Overall, holehe provides investigators with a focused and scalable method for mapping an email’s online presence. -
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User Scanner
Scan usernames and emails across many platforms from the CLI
user-scanner is a command-line OSINT tool designed to analyze the presence and availability of usernames and email addresses across many online platforms. It helps users quickly determine whether a specific username or email is already associated with accounts on social networks, developer platforms, creator communities, gaming services, and other sites. user-scanner is useful for security researchers, investigators, and analysts performing open source intelligence, as well as individuals or businesses looking for a unique username across multiple services. By scanning many platforms in a single command, it simplifies the process of checking account existence and identifying a digital footprint. user-scanner uses a modular architecture where each platform is implemented as a small validator module that determines whether a username exists or is available. -
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theHarvester
E-mails, subdomains and names
theHarvester is a very simple to use, yet powerful and effective tool designed to be used in the early stages of a penetration test or red team engagement. Use it for open source intelligence (OSINT) gathering to help determine a company's external threat landscape on the internet. The tool gathers emails, names, subdomains, IPs and URLs using multiple public data sources. -
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Blackbird
OSINT tool for finding accounts across 600+ sites by username or email
Blackbird is an open source OSINT tool designed to search for user accounts across social networks and online platforms using a username or email address. The project focuses on helping investigators, researchers, and security professionals quickly discover where a specific identity appears on the internet. It performs reverse searches across more than 600 websites by leveraging data from the community-driven WhatsMyName project, which improves detection accuracy and reduces false positives. The tool operates primarily through a command line interface, allowing users to run automated searches and gather results from many platforms in a single process. Blackbird also includes an optional AI-powered profiling feature that analyzes discovered sites to generate behavioral and technical insights about a user’s online presence. Results from searches can be exported in formats such as PDF, CSV, or JSON for documentation or reporting purposes. -
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Robin
AI-powered tool for dark web OSINT search and investigation
Robin is an AI-powered open source tool designed to assist investigators and researchers in conducting dark web OSINT (Open Source Intelligence) investigations. It combines automated dark web search capabilities with large language models (LLMs) to analyze and summarize information discovered across hidden services and Tor-based search engines. The tool helps refine investigative queries, collect results from multiple dark web sources, and filter relevant intelligence using AI-driven processing. Robin also performs scraping of discovered pages through Tor sessions, allowing users to gather additional context from dark web sites while maintaining the required network routing. By integrating AI models, the platform can interpret results, highlight key information, and produce summaries that help analysts understand findings faster. The project provides a modular architecture separating search, scraping, and AI processing components so it can be extended with new data sources. -
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Ignorant
Checks if a phone number is registered on online services
Ignorant is a Python-based OSINT tool designed to determine whether a specific phone number is associated with accounts on various online platforms. It performs phone number enumeration by sending requests to supported services and analyzing their responses to identify whether an account exists for that number. By querying endpoints used during account registration, login, or other interactions, Ignorant can infer the presence of an account without notifying the phone number owner. This allows investigators, researchers, or security professionals to perform reconnaissance without alerting the target. Ignorant supports multiple platforms, including services such as Instagram, Snapchat, and Amazon, using a modular architecture where each platform is implemented as a separate module. Ignorant is built with asynchronous Python technologies, enabling concurrent checks across multiple services for faster results. It also provides standardized output in JSON format. -
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Flowsint
Graph-based OSINT investigation platform w visual relationship mapping
Flowsint is an open source OSINT investigation platform designed to help analysts explore and understand relationships between digital entities through a visual graph interface. The platform focuses on reconnaissance and open source intelligence workflows, enabling investigators to map connections between domains, IP addresses, organizations, individuals, and other data points. By presenting these relationships in an interactive graph, Flowsint allows users to quickly identify patterns, associations, and investigative leads that might be difficult to detect through traditional data analysis methods. The system includes automated enrichers that gather additional intelligence about entities such as domain records, social media profiles, network infrastructure, and cryptocurrency activity. Its modular architecture separates the frontend application, API server, core services, and enrichment modules, making the platform extensible and easier to expand with new investigative capabilities. -
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ClatScope
OSINT reconnaissance tool for IP, domain, email, and username lookups
ClatScope is a Python-based OSINT (open source intelligence) utility designed to gather and analyze publicly available information from multiple online sources. It is primarily aimed at investigators, cybersecurity professionals, penetration testers, and researchers who need a centralized platform for reconnaissance tasks. It integrates with numerous public APIs and internet services to retrieve detailed data about IP addresses, domains, email addresses, phone numbers, usernames, and other digital identifiers. By combining these sources, ClatScope automates the process of collecting intelligence that would normally require multiple separate tools or manual searches. It operates through a menu-driven command line interface that allows users to choose from many reconnaissance functions and receive formatted results directly in the terminal. ClatScope supports dozens of OSINT operations, including domain analysis, breach checks, and account discovery. -
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Trape
OSINT tool for tracking users and analyzing browser data online
Trape is an open source OSINT analysis and research tool designed to track and analyze users on the internet in real time. The project focuses on demonstrating how web browsers can reveal sensitive information about users while interacting with websites and online services. It provides researchers, security professionals, and organizations with a platform for studying how attackers could gather intelligence through social engineering techniques. The tool can clone websites and monitor interactions in order to collect data from visitors, allowing investigators to observe user behavior and session activity. Trape was originally created to educate the public about how large internet services may obtain confidential information such as session status or browser details without users realizing it. Over time, it has evolved into a research platform that helps analysts track cybercriminal activity and study online tracking mechanisms. -
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geowifi
OSINT tool for locating WiFi networks using BSSID or SSID data
geowifi is an open source OSINT tool designed to search and retrieve geolocation information about WiFi networks using their BSSID or SSID identifiers. It queries several public WiFi geolocation databases and aggregates the results to help identify the approximate location of a wireless access point. By combining multiple data sources such as Wigle, Apple, Google, WifiDB, Mylnikov, and Combain, the tool can provide location data that may include coordinates and additional network metadata. Users can run searches through a command-line interface by specifying either the BSSID (MAC address) or the SSID of a network. The results can be displayed in different formats, including a structured JSON output or an interactive HTML map showing the discovered locations. geowifi also supports API-based integrations with certain services, which allows geowifi to retrieve more accurate or detailed geolocation data when valid API credentials are configured. -
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email2phonenumber
OSINT tool to discover phone numbers using an email address
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. The application includes several functions that support different phases of this process, such as scraping phone number fragments, generating possible numbers based on national numbering plans, and testing potential numbers against service recovery mechanisms. -
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Tookie-OSINT
Username OSINT tool for discovering accounts across many websites
Tookie-OSINT is an open source intelligence tool designed to help security researchers, ethical hackers, and investigators discover online accounts associated with a specific username. It automates the process of searching for usernames across multiple websites, making it easier to identify a person's presence on different platforms. 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. -
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Instaloader
Download pictures (or videos) along with their captions
Instaloader is a mature open-source utility for downloading and archiving Instagram content along with rich metadata. It enables users to retrieve posts, stories, reels, highlights, profile pictures, and associated information such as captions, comments, timestamps, and geotags. The tool supports both public and permitted private content when proper authentication is provided, making it useful for research, digital archiving, and social media analysis. Instaloader can be run as a simple command-line tool or used programmatically through its Python module, offering flexibility for automation workflows. It includes smart update mechanisms that resume interrupted downloads and fetch only new media to maintain efficient archives. The project is widely adopted by investigators and analysts who need structured Instagram data collection. In essence, Instaloader provides a robust and highly configurable pipeline for Instagram content retrieval. -
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BBOT
The recursive internet scanner for hackers
BBOT is an advanced open-source reconnaissance automation framework designed to streamline large-scale OSINT and attack surface discovery workflows. It operates as a modular and recursive scanning tool that can enumerate subdomains, perform port scans, gather metadata, and collect web intelligence through a unified command-line interface. The project emphasizes extensibility, allowing users to create or integrate custom modules that expand the scope of reconnaissance tasks without modifying the core engine. BBOT is particularly valuable for security researchers and red teamers who need to automate multi-stage discovery processes across complex infrastructures. Its architecture supports chaining multiple reconnaissance techniques together, enabling continuous discovery rather than one-off scans. The tool balances power and usability by providing sensible defaults while still exposing deep configuration options for advanced users. -
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GHunt
Offensive Google framework
GHunt (v2) is an offensive Google framework, designed to evolve efficiently. It's currently focused on OSINT, but any use related with Google is possible. It will automatically use venvs to avoid dependency conflicts with other projects. First, launch the listener by doing ghunt login and choose between 1 of the 2 first methods. Put GHunt on listening mode (currently not compatible with docker) Paste base64-encoded cookies. Enter manually all cookies. The development of this extension has followed Firefox guidelines to use the Promise-based WebExtension/BrowserExt API being standardized by the W3 Browser Extensions group, and is using webextension-polyfill to provide cross-browser compatibility with no changes. -
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TorBot
Dark Web OSINT Tool
Contributions to this project are always welcome. To add a new feature fork the dev branch and give a pull request when your new feature is tested and complete. If its a new module, it should be put inside the modules directory. The branch name should be your new feature name in the format <Feature_featurename_version(optional)>. On Linux platforms, you can make an executable for TorBot by using the install.sh script. You will need to give the script the correct permissions using chmod +x install.sh Now you can run ./install.sh to create the torBot binary. Run ./torBot to execute the program. Crawl custom domains.(Completed). Check if the link is live.(Completed). Built-in Updater.(Completed). TorBot GUI (In progress). Social Media integration.(not Started). -
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socialscan
Scan platforms to check username and email account usage
Socialscan is an open source intelligence (OSINT) tool designed to check whether usernames or email addresses are associated with accounts on various online platforms. It allows users to quickly determine if a specific username or email address is already in use across multiple services, making it useful for security research, digital investigations, and account enumeration tasks. It focuses on accuracy by querying platform endpoints in a way that reliably detects whether a credential exists without producing misleading results. Socialscan can be used both as a Python library and as a command-line utility, making it flexible for developers and analysts alike. It uses asynchronous networking to perform multiple queries efficiently, enabling fast scans across different services. Because of its programmatic interface, the tool can also be integrated into larger workflows, automation scripts, or OSINT pipelines. Overall, Socialscan helps investigators, researchers, and developers. -
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Argus
Python toolkit for OSINT and reconnaissance with 135+ modules
Argus is a Python-based open source toolkit designed to simplify information gathering and reconnaissance tasks in cybersecurity. It provides an integrated command-line environment that consolidates numerous reconnaissance utilities into a single framework. The tool enables users to collect data about networks, domains, web applications, and infrastructure in an organized and efficient manner. Argus includes a modular architecture with more than 130 modules that support activities such as DNS analysis, port scanning, web application inspection, and threat intelligence lookups. Its interactive CLI allows users to browse available modules, configure targets, run scans, and review results from within a unified interface. The project aims to reduce the complexity of using multiple separate reconnaissance tools by bringing them together in one streamlined platform. Argus also supports integrations with external intelligence services. -
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BlackWidow
Python web scanner for OSINT gathering and OWASP vulnerability fuzzing
BlackWidow is a Python-based web application scanning tool designed to crawl target websites and collect open-source intelligence (OSINT) while identifying potential security vulnerabilities. It functions as a web spider that systematically explores a site to gather valuable information such as URLs, dynamic parameters, subdomains, email addresses, and phone numbers associated with the target domain. By automatically extracting this data, BlackWidow helps security professionals and researchers build a clearer understanding of a website’s structure and publicly accessible information. In addition to information gathering, the project includes a built-in fuzzing component called Inject-X, which tests dynamic URLs for common vulnerabilities listed in the OWASP Top 10. The scanner analyzes parameters and injects payloads to detect issues such as SQL injection, cross-site scripting (XSS), and open redirect vulnerabilities.
