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The One OSINT Tool You Must Have to Supercharge Your Investigations

Everybody loves tools. It’s a basic instinct that probably kicked in around the moment the first caveman — or woman — realised... Read >

What and why

 

This page provides links to mostly free tools and services that are useful for online verification, digital journalism, and open-source intelligence work. There are more comprehensive collections online - I've decided to keep this concise so as to be able to curate it regularly for broken links, obsolete tools/services and new additions. The main criteria for inclusion are:

  • Free (or at least having a free component)

  • Requiring little or no coding knowledge

  • Tools/services that I have personally found useful in my work

  • In each section, I've tried to place the more useful ones at the top - this will, of course, vary according to a user's own priorities and practices.

    The menu provides links to pages with short descriptions of what the tools and services actually do. You can also access the description pages by clicking on the headings on each section.

    Where to begin

     

    An easy-to-use tool for starting out on an OSINT task >>>

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    • Mastodon
    • Facebook
    • Instagram
    • YouTube

    Verification tools and services

    Facebook

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    Who posted what?

     

    Facebook Graph Searcher

    Graph.tips

    LookupID

    Maps

    Google Maps

    Google Earth

    Bing Maps

    Yandex Maps

    Wikimapia

    Mapillary

    OpenStreetMap

    Géoportail (FR)

    Satellites Pro

    Peakfinder

    Travel With Drone

    OpenRailwayMap

    Travic

    Webcams

     

    EarthCam

     

    Windy

     

    WebcamTaxi

    Live railroad webcams

    Snapchat

    Snap Map

    Reddit

    Pushshift search

    Redective

    Karma Decay

    r/whatisthisthing

    4chan

    4chan Search

    Search4chan

    Archived.moe

    Wikipedia

    xtools

    Wikimap

    Tools & services
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