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Welcome to the OSINT Post‘s recommended open-
source investigation tools. These tools are used
by myself, and many others in verification,
investigation and crunching publicly available
information.
Many of these tools are free-to-use. I will try
to ensure that the majority of this list only
consists of free-use tools, where relevant, I
will mention a price-range of the tool.
If you have a program or tool you have create,
or that you use in your own research, and it is
not mentioned and linked to on this list, please
get in touch with me and I will add it.
SOCIAL MEDIA DATA CRUNCHING
AND SEARCHES
FACEBOOK – Deep searching for profiles –
graph.tips
FACEBOOK – Deep searching for posts –
whopostedwhat
FACEBOOK – Global map of live videos – livemap
FACEBOOK – Account search by name, email, screen
name, phone – netbootcamp
FACEBOOK – Advanced profile view – stalkscan
FACEBOOK – download videos – fbdown
INSTAGRAM – advanced searching – websta.me
LINKEDIN – advanced searching – socilab
SNAPCHAT – Geobased Snapchats map.snapchat
TWITTER – Tweets in a location –
onemilliontweetmap
TWITTER – Advanced search – Twitter
TWITTER – Geosearch – qtrtweets
YOUTUBE – Geosearch – Github/YouTube
YOUTUBE – View Advanced Data – Amnesty
IMAGE/VIDEO SEARCH AND DATA
TOOLS
Metadata view for files – sno.phy
Amnesty International’s Youtube Data Viewer –
Amnesty
Image forensics data tool – fotoforensics
Fake news, video and image verification -invid-
project
Image verification – reveal-mklab
Web-based image metadata extractor exif.regex
GEOLOCATION AND MAPPING TOOLS
Bing Maps – more updated than Google Earth –
Bing
Google Earth – A good one to download
Digital Globe – satellite imagery
Coordinate Conversion – Synnatschke
Geograph – georeferenced images
Geonames database
Check urban density (people) – mapchecking.com
Maps at street level imagery – mapillary.com
Open Streetcams – openstreetcam.org
Wikimapia – public information geolocated
Geobased searching – Echosec
More Geobased searching – WarWire
Liveuamap – conflict news mapped
FINANCE AND BUSINESS TOOLS
LittleSis – Database of connections in business
and government
Block Explorer – View information about a block,
address, and transactions with Bitcoin
TRANSPORT SEARCH TOOLS
AirNav Radarbox – Tracks all type of flights
(private and military included)
FlightAware – flight tracking
ADS-B Exchange – database of flight data
Marine Traffic – maritime tracking
Vessel Finder – search for vessels
Wikiroutes – Transport database
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CURRENT
INVESTIGATIONS AND
CAMPAIGNS
Europol – Image
identification and
geolocation (stop
child abuse campaign)
Enough Project – Runs
a group called The
Sentry: tracks
financing, funding,
and profiting from
genocide or other
mass atrocities in
Africa
Human Rights Watch –
great source for the
latest investigations
into evidence
burying, and human
rights abuse
Amnesty
International’s
current ongoing
investigations and
campaigns
Witness.org –
teaching citizen-
based journalism and
documentation methods
CitizenScience.gov –
government website
designed to
accelerate the use of
crowdsourcing and
citizen science
across the U.S.
government
Crosscheck –
collaborative
journalism
verification project
MH17 Invesgitation –
Largely led by
researchers from the
Bellingcat team
BELLINGCAT
verification projects
– Checkmedia.org
Reddit group based on
image geolocation
challenges –
sometimes includes
crowdsource
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