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Oh look, its *yet another* list of OSINT resources..
Since I do mainly do OSINT work for a living, you can imagine that I have accumulated a huge amount of resources and tools to assist me in locating certain information about certain things over the years. Figured I should share them in a mostly organized fashion, because sharing is caring right?
These lists are currently still a work in progress! It was going to take ages to write so I've decided to just publish what I already have and continue to push updates on the live versions. So stay tuned for more.
The most popular search engine in the world. You already know what this is.
- [DuckDuckGo](https://duckduckgo.com/)
A privacy respecting search engine.
- [Bing](https://www.bing.com/)
A search engine owned and operated by Microsoft.
- [Yahoo!](https://yahoo.com/)
Yahoo! search is basically a rebadged version of the Bing search engine.
- [Yandex](https://yandex.com/)
A search engine based in Russia.
- [Swisscows](https://swisscows.com/)
The data-secure Google alternative. A search engine where your privacy is protected. Swisscows does not monitor or save any data.
- [Startpage](https://www.startpage.com/)
Startpage is a Dutch search engine company that highlights privacy as its distinguishing feature.
- [Gigablast](https://www.gigablast.com/)
A "cryptographically-protected" private search engine.
- [UVRX](http://www.uvrx.com/)
The most comprehensive online file storage search engine. They have individual search engines for badongo, Mediafire, Zshare, 4shared and taringa. They also provide a search all function that searches filefactory, depositfiles, easy-share, sharedzilla, sendspace, yousendit, letitbit, drop, sharebee, rapidspread, and many others.
- [Wikipedia](https://www.wikipedia.org/)
The free encyclopedia that anyone can edit.
- [Ask](https://www.ask.com/)
A question answering-focused web search engine that delivers answers from the web and real people. Formally known as "Ask Jeeves".
- [Mojeek](https://www.mojeek.com/)
A web search engine that provides unbiased, fast, and relevant search results combined with a no tracking privacy policy.
- [Lycos](https://www.lycos.com/)
Another generic search engine.
- [Qwant](https://www.qwant.com/)
a search engine that respects your privacy and ensure neutrality and impartiality. Based in Paris, France.
## **Country Specific Search Engines and Directories**
An international directory of search engines. Giving you links to search engines from the USA, EU, Australia, Canada, China, India, Japan, Brazil, Russia, and many more.
A privately owned, independent web site that provides updated news and information on Afghanistan. Originally known as the Qazi Web page.
- [Jobs.AF](https://www.jobs.af/)
Job announcements in Afghanistan by UN, government, international development agencies, aid agencies, private companies and MNCs in different industries.
- **Bhutan**
- [Bhutan Portal](http://www.bhutan.gov.bt/)
This site has links for government, citizens, business and overseas links such as tourism sites for Bhutan.
- [Kuensel Online](https://kuenselonline.com/)
A news portal from Kuensal which is the Bhutan daily newspaper.
A search engine for all things related to Bahrain. Sites are sorted into categories including business, internet and entertainment.
- [SIJILAT](https://www.sijilat.bh/)
A commercial registration portal for Bahrain. The site contains information about opening and running a business in Bahrain. You can search the site and its registers from here.
- [InfoBahrain](http://www.servicesbahrain.com/)
Information and business directory and travel guide. You can search by location or category.
- **Bangladesh**
- [Prantor](https://www.prantor.com/)
The ultimate Bangladesh directory. Has links to all the best Bangladeshi and Probashi websites.
An official government source of all regulatory information relevant to traders who wish to import goods into Bangladesh or export to other countries.
- [BangladeshDir](https://bangladeshdir.com/)
Bangladeshi information web portal and search engine.
- [Pipilika](https://pipilika.com/)
Pipilika claims to be the first search engine to work in both Bengali and English. This search engine has a focus on searching and analyzing of data in Bengali.
General purpose web portal of Bangladesh where you can find daily updated news, various exclusive and useful information and services for Bangladeshi people around the world.
- **China**
- [Baidu](https://www.baidu.com/)
Baidu is the dominant internet search engine company in China. Its features and services are similar to those of Google, but its focus is on China, where it controls most of the search market. Baidu censors search results and other content in accordance with Chinese regulations.
- [SOHU](https://www.sohu.com/)
A premier online brand in the daily life of millions of Chinese who use the portal for their e-mail, SMS messaging, news, search, browsing and shopping.
- [Sina](https://www.sina.com.cn/)
An online media and value-added infotainment service provider for China and for global Chinese communities.
- [163](https://www.163.com/)
China based internet technology company that has pioneered the development of applications, services and other technologies for the internet in China.
- [Sogou](https://www.sogou.com/)
One of the largest search engines in China.
- [So](https://www.so.com/)
A leading company in internet search engine, input method, browsers and other internet products and services.
- [ChinaSite](https://www.chinasite.com/)
This is not an actual search engine, it's a neatly organized reference site for China and Chinese related web sites from the Aweto company.
- **Cyprus**
- [Kypros](http://www.kypros.org/)
Also known as the "World of Cyprus" is a portal with weather, exchange rates, news, sport, TV and radio.
- [CyprusGate](http://www.cyprusgate.com/)
A very comprehensive directory of Cyprus websites.
- **Iran**
- [Parseek](https://parseek.com/)
A search engine for news articles. Allows you to search by different news categories.
- [Hasht](http://www.hasht.com/)
An Iranian portal and search page. Also known as Site 8.
- [Iranmehr](https://www.iranmehr.com/)
Persian search engine and directory from free and paid site submission options.
- [Linkestan](http://www.linkestan.com/)
A directory of Persian websites, software downloads, links and articles.
- [IranPage](https://www.iranpage.com/)
Known as the first online directory of Iranian professionals and Iranian owned and operated businesses worldwide.
- **India**
- [123Khoj](https://www.123khoj.com/)
India search engine and web directory.
- [Tazaa](https://tazaa.com/)
Indian search engine that utilizes Google custom search.
A great search engine and directory for Indian websites.
- [IndiaCatalog](http://indiacatalog.com/)
A web directory of top Indian companies where you can find products, services, addresses, phone numbers and email details of top Indian companies.
- [SurfIndia](https://www.surfindia.com/)
An online business directory and search engine for India. Results can be filtered by location.
- [IndiaConnect](https://indiaconnect.com/)
Search for classified ads by keyword and locations, location can also be chosen by clicking on an interactive map.
- [IndianKanoon](https://indiankanoon.org)
An Indian legal search engine to search for laws and law interpretations.
- [IndiaBook](https://www.indiabook.com/)
A web directory for quality links relating to Indian websites.
- [Adaalo](https://www.adaalo.com/)
A free classifieds site in India. You can post ads and search for your desired products.
- [AboutMumbai](https://www.aboutmumbai.com/)
A Mumbai travel guide with restaurants, sightseeing, telephone numbers, classifieds, maps, cities, transport, Bollywood cinema and films.
- [Dial India](https://www.dialindia.com/)
A website directory featuring business, bollywood, news, fashion, travel, employment, classifieds, and more.
- [Rediff](https://www.rediff.com/)
A news and entertainment search engine for India.
- **Israel**
- [Walla!](https://www.walla.co.il)
An Israeli search engine that is powered by Google. Provides news, e-mail and other services.
- **South Korea**
- [Duam](https://www.daum.net)
Offers many Internet services to web users, including a search engine, free web-based e-mail, messaging service, forums, shopping, news and webtoon service.
- [Naver](https://www.naver.com/)
Basically the same as Duam. It was the first web portal in South Korea to develop and use its own search engine.
A B2B Directory website that connects buyers and suppliers worldwide who are looking to buy and sell Indonesian products.
- [GBG Indonesia](https://www.gbgindonesia.com/)
Specializes in providing business and investment portals on the most promising emerging markets for local and foreign investors. This guide has business information and news on Indonesia featuring interviews, analysis on key investment opportunities and a business directory.
- [Detik](https://www.detik.com/)
the latest news and special coverage in Indonesian and some International news.
- **Japan**
- [Goo](https://search.goo.ne.jp/)
Goo is an Internet search engine and web portal based in Japan, which is used to crawl and index primarily Japanese language websites.
- **Kazakhstan**
- [Zakon](https://www.zakon.kz/)
This site features weather forecasts, exchange rates and legislation for the Republic of Kazakhstan.
- [Satu](https://satu.kz/)
Kazakhstan shopping search engine.
- [Gismeteo](https://www.gismeteo.kz/)
A weather search engine in Kazakhstan.
- [Krisha](https://krisha.kz/)
A real estate search engine for Kazakhstan. Search for property to buy and rent.
- **Laos**
- [iNGO](https://directoryofngos.org/)
Internet directory of non-government organizations (NGOs) in Laos.
- [TourismLaos](https://www.tourismlaos.org/)
Laos' official tourism website where you can explore Laos, find information about festivals and events, maps and other documentation.
- **Lebanon**
- [LebWeb](http://www.lebweb.com/)
A large directory with categorized links to Lebanese sites and resources.
- **Nepal**
- [Explore Nepal](http://www.explorenepal.com/)
Search engine of Nepal, also includes business directory, news, information about Nepal and more.
- [AskBaje](http://www.aksbaje.com/)
A local search engine that provides comprehensive and updated information on all B2B and B2C products and services.
- [NepalNet](http://www.nepalnet.net/)
Authority to websites related to Nepal with reviews, ranks and awards.
- **Malaysia**
- [Malaysia Central](http://www.mycen.com.my/)
One-stop starting point to Malaysian online destinations.
- [CARI](https://www.cari.com.my/)
A search site for all Malaysians and all Internet surfers around the world.
Directory listings of Malaysian related websites. Has news, forum, weather, news feeds and much more.
- [e-Borneo](http://www.e-borneo.com/main/)
Bringing Borneo to the whole wide world by providing mostly free information, contents, and links related to Borneo as well as other topics of interest.
The official government provided portal for Taiwan.
- **Pakistan**
- [SearchOye](https://searchoye.com)
A Pakistani search engine that searches the entire web including web pages, images, and videos.
- [Pakistanism](https://www.pakistanism.com/)
Pakistani content search engine that lists an index of Pakistan related webpages, images, videos, jobs, news, recipes, e-commerce and social media sites.
- [Rozee](https://www.rozee.pk/)
Search for jobs listings and job opportunities in Pakistan.
Provides information on potential customers, contracts, exporters, raw material sources, industry prices, statistics and horticulture regarding Jamaican companies.
- **Europe**
- **Albania**
- [AlbaFind](http://www.albafind.com/)
AlbaFind is a search engine dedicated to Albanian websites.
- [eAlbania](https://e-albania.al/)
An information page with search engine and directory with information about Albania.
- [EURAXESS](https://www.euraxess.al/)
A resource for foreign researchers who plan to come to Albania.
A search engine and directory of Belgian websites and links.
- [WebWatch](https://www.webwatch.be/)
A search tool in Belgium that has indexed all of the thousands of Belgian sites.
- **Bosnia and Herzegovina**
- [HercegBosna](https://www.hercegbosna.org/)
Web directory on a site that also has information about Bosnia Herzegovina and its history.
- **Bulgaria**
- [Search BG](http://www.search.bg/)
The Bulgarian search engine.
- [Portal BG](http://portal.bg/)
A web directory and portal for Bulgaria.
- **Croatia**
- [CroLinks](http://www.crolinks.com/)
Lists of Croatian websites, personal homepages and email addresses worldwide.
- [HR](https://www.hr/)
Offers basic information about Republic of Croatia, as well as directory of Croatian-based web pages.
- [Find-Croatia](https://www.find-croatia.com/)
A web site dedicated to travelers and visitors to Croatia. This is a comprehensive on-line travel guide to Croatia with all the details and information about art, culture, museums, architecture, natural beauties, hotels in, holiday accommodations and transport.
- **Estonia**
- [NETI](https://www.neti.ee/)
A directory and search engine for Estonia.
- [WWW EE](http://catalog.www.ee/)
Estonian website directory.
- **Czech Republic**
- [Seznam](https://www.seznam.cz/)
Czech website directory.
- [CentrumCZ](https://www.centrum.cz/)
Search engine and website directory.
- **Finland**
- [Makupalat](https://www.makupalat.fi/)
Produced by Finnish libraries along with a link directory. Links have been selected on the basis of the quality of the content and sorted by topic.
- **France**
- [Francite](http://www.francite.com/)
The most well known French search engine.
- [France-Pub](https://www.france-pub.com/)
Website directory and information about France.
- [El Annuaire](https://www.el-annuaire.com/)
A massive directory of French websites. Currently lists over 41,000 different French websites.
- [ApocalX](https://www.apocalx.com/)
A search engine in French that is powered by Google AI.
- [Yakeo](http://www.yakeo.com/)
A directory of many different French websites.
- [Les Annuaries](https://www.lesannuaires.com/)
List of French directories and search engines. This "Directory of Directories" offers more than 2000 directories.
- [MisterFast](http://www.misterfast.com/)
French search engine and website directory.
- [LyonWeb](http://www.lyonweb.net/)
Search engine for Lyon and Lyonnais. Index of websites, events, demonstrations and exhibitions in the region.
- **Germany**
- [FastBot](https://www.fastbot.de/)
German-language search engine with the option of reporting results and opening them anonymously.
- **Greece**
- [RoBBy](https://www.robby.gr/)
Search engine and web directory service for the Greek ".gr" TLD.
- **Georgia**
- [BoomGE](http://www.boom.ge/)
A Georgian search engine.
- **Hungary**
- [Megaport](https://www.megaport.hu/)
Hungary guide in the form of a web directory with search function.
- [Kapu](https://www.kapu.hu/)
A directory of Hungarian websites.
- **Iceland**
- [Finna](https://www.finna.is/)
A search engine for Icelandic web pages.
- [Ja](https://ja.is/)
Search for Icelandic companies, products and people.
- **Liechtenstein**
- [WebLI](https://www.web.li/)
Provides information about banks, trustees, stamps, prince, enterprises, private persons, economy, science and trade related to the Principality of Liechtenstein.
- **Italy**
- [Eseguo](http://www.eseguo.it/)
A web directory of personal and business web sites.
- [SicilyWeb](http://www.sicilyweb.com/index.cfm)
A great directory of web sites located in Sicily.
- **Lithuania**
- [OnLt](http://www.on.lt/)
A guide to Lithuanian internet resources organized by services and keywords. The site is updated daily, revised weekly and has been established since 1995.
- [Delfi](https://www.delfi.lt/)
Lithuanian search engine and web portal.
- **Latvia**
- [TopLV](https://www.top.lv/)
A directory of Latvian content organized by category.
- [SS.LV](https://www.ss.lv/)
A directory of classified ads for Latvia.
- **Macedonia**
- [Nadji!](http://www.najdi.si/)
A search engine specializing in media content. Unlike most search engines, it does not utilize a spider to gather the content it indexes, but interfaces directly with the websites it covers through RSS or other XML, in combination with the SWISH-E open-source software.
- **Norway**
- [Kvasir](https://www.kvasir.no/)
Norway's largest search service. Search for sites in Norway and worldwide.
- **Moldova**
- [Totul](http://old.totul.md/ru/company.html)
Directory of Moldovan businesses including addresses and phone number and description of the activities of companies.
- **Poland**
- [Onet](https://www.onet.pl/)
One of the largest Polish web portals and search engines.
- **Netherlands**
- [Zeoken](https://www.zoeken.nl/)
A meta search engine for the Netherlands. Pretty much the same as iZito.
- [Vinden](https://www.vinden.nl/)
Offers custom search options, like searching for phone numbers, images, mp3 files, and more
- **Portugal**
- [SAPO](https://www.sapo.pt/)
A Portuguese search engines that is powered by Google.
- **Romaina**
- **Slovakia**
- **Russia**
- **Slovenia**
- **Serbia**
- **Sweden**
- [Tjohoo](https://tjohoo.se/)
Features a Swedish web portal and search engine.
- [Eniro](https://www.eniro.se/)
A local Swedish search portal offering telephone directory, web search and maps for Sweden. In addition to this, Eniro offers a news aggregator, shopping services, video search, image search and job search.
- **Switzerland**
- [Search.ch](https://www.search.ch/)
A search engine and web portal for Switzerland.
- **Spain**
- **Ukraine**
- **North America**
- **Canada**
- [LookSeek Canada](http://www.lookseek.ca/)
A private search engine with no tracking that lets users search for Canadian websites.
- [LocatorCA](https://locator.ca/)
A basic search engine for Canadian websites. Uses a Google CSE.
- [CanLinks](https://www.canlinks.net/)
A large directory of Canadian websites.
- [CanadaCity](https://www.canadacity.net/)
A directory with links to portals, city guides and directories specific to Canadian cities.
The journal Greenland contains illustrated articles on Greenlandic and Arctic conditions and has been published by the Greenlandic Society since 1953. This database contains all 50 volumes 1953 to 2002.
- **Mexico**
- [DirectoryMX](http://www.directory.com.mx/)
A bilingual Mexican online web directory for Mexico.
- **United States**
- [Keep It Local](https://keepitlocal.com/)
An easy and efficient search tool for locating web pages, autos and agricultural vehicles for sale and real estate by geographic location in the USA.
- [50 States](https://www.50states.com/)
A web directory with a category for each USA state featuring search engines, directories and other relevant links to the chosen state.
- [FedGate](http://www.fedgate.org/)
A comprehensive web directory for US government information, department of defence, federal government, executive agencies, senate, white house, legislative branch and congress.
- [Ezilon USA](https://search.ezilon.com/)
A North American search engine and website directory where users can search for and submit websites from the United States and Canada.
- [CityTown](http://www.citytown.info/)
A directory of official, city and town, government and chamber of commerce, websites. Everything is organized by state with references to similar collections and directories.
A directory of websites for the province of Santa Fe, Argentina.
- [WebFe](https://webfe.com/news/)
A multi language news portal for Argentina that covers politics, the economy, technology and sports.
- **Belize**
- [Belize Search](https://www.belizesearch.com/)
A website directory with a huge amount of indexed sites.
- **Brazil**
- [Aonde](https://www.aonde.com/)
A directory and search engine. You can submit your Portuguese pages [here](http://www.aonde.com/inclusao.htm).
- [Achei](http://www.achei.com.br/)
Brazilian search tool that offers national and Latin American content. Allows search by category and keywords, also offers advanced search with Boolean operators and quantity of results.
- [Exploora](https://www.exploora.com.br/)
A global search engine with semantic analysis of Portuguese language searches.
- **Bolivia**
- [Bolovian](https://www.bolivian.com/)
A website directory and index of Bolivian sites.
- **Chile**
- [Antena](http://www.antena.cl/)
Search Antena, BuscaChile and Google.cl simultaneously.
- **Colombia**
- [Conexcol](https://www.conexcol.com/)
A web directory of specialized websites in Colombia.
- [Lalupa](https://www.lalupa.com/)
A web directory and new portal for Colombians.
- **Costa Rica**
- [The Real Costa Rica](http://www.therealcostarica.com/)
Everything you want or need to know about Costa Rica and Costa Ricans. The people, government, laws and culture.
- **Ecuador**
- [Puerto Cayo](http://www.puertocayo.com/)
Official guide to Puerto Cayo with community resources directory.
- **El Salvador**
- [Buscaniguas](http://www.buscaniguas.com.sv/)
El Salvadorian website directory.
- **Guatemala**
- [Guate Market](https://guatemarket.com/)
Website directory and search for Guatemala.
- [Deguate](https://www.deguate.com/)
Another website directory for Guatemala.
- **Nicaragua**
- [XOLO](https://www.xolo.com.ni/)
Search over 150,000 pages of content indexed in more than 1,200 sites of the Nicaraguan Web.
- **Panama**
- [Panama Info](https://panamainfo.com/en)
Panama's most visited tourism and business directory website. Currently undergoing maintenance.
- **Peru**
- [Oh Peru](https://www.ohperu.com/)
Search engine and directory of web pages of Peru. Peruvian guide web since 1999.
A small portal page of links to top news sites and portals based in Venezuela.
## **Specialty Search**
- [Wolfram|Alpha](https://www.wolframalpha.com/)
An online service that answers factual queries directly by computing the answer from externally sourced "curated data", rather than providing a list of documents or web pages that might contain the answer.
- [Million Short](https://millionshort.com/)
Million Short is an alternative search engine, which enables users to remove the first 100, 1k, 10k, 100k and 1 million of the most popular search results.
A free public web search engine for academic publications and literature, developed by Microsoft Research. Re-launched in 2016, the tool features an entirely new data structure and search engine using semantic search technologies.
- [Keyword Tool](https://keywordtool.io/)
Keyword Tool is free online keyword research instrument that uses Google auto-complete to generate hundreds of relevant long-tail keywords for any topic.
- [2lingual](https://2lingual.com/)
A Google CSE that lets you search for pages in two languages.
- [Internet Movie Database](https://www.imdb.com/)
IMDb is an online database of information related to films, television programs, home videos, video games, and streaming content. Including information about cast, production crew, personal biographies, plot summaries, trivia, ratings, reviews and more.
## **Meta Search**
- [Fagan Finder](https://www.faganfinder.com/)
One of the best metasearch tools there is. Allows you to search through search engines, social media, encyclopedias, libraries, news, government, documents and much more.
- [Exalead](https://www.exalead.com/search/web/)
A high-end data discovery and search platform that powers search, data collection, and indexing among all technology solutions.
- [DogPile](https://www.dogpile.com/)
A metasearch engine for information on the World Wide Web that fetches results from Google, Yahoo!, Yandex, Bing, and other popular search engines, including those from audio and video content providers such as Yahoo!.
- [Advangle](http://advangle.com/)
Allows you to quickly build a query with multiple parameters (such as the 'domain', 'language' or 'date published') and immediately see the result of this query in Google or Bing search engines.
- [All in One](https://all-io.net/)
A metasearch engine that combines all major search engines into one. They also allow you to create, configure and customize your own engine.
- [WebCrawler](https://www.webcrawler.com/)
The oldest surviving search engine on the internet. It was the first search engine to provide full text searching.
- [YubNub](https://yubnub.org/)
Yubnub gives you all the details about a website relevant to the business. This website is user-friendly and functions as a search engine. This allows developing and using commands linked to web pages and web services.
- [MyAllSearch](https://www.myallsearch.com/)
a multi metasearch engine that provides search results from a number of different search engines. MyAllSearch offers standard web searches, image searches, video searches, news searches and blog searches. Results are available from major search engines, such as Google, Yahoo, Bing & DuckDuckGo.
- [iZito](https://www.izito.com/)
Comines search results from Google, Bing, YouTube, Yahoo!, Wikipedia, Entireweb and many more.
- [eTools](https://www.etools.ch/search.do)
Searches major Swiss and international search engines. Queried search engines include Ask, Base, Bing, Brave, DuckDuckGo, ExaLead, Fastbot, FindX, Google, Mojeek, Moose, Qwant, Search, Tiger, Wikipedia, Yahoo! and Yandex.
- [Zapmeta](https://www.zapmeta.fi/)
Essentially a clone of iZito.
## **Similar Site Search**
- [SimilarSites](https://www.similarsites.com/)
Enter a website URL and view websites that are similar.
- [SitesLike](https://siteslike.com/)
Enter a URL or keyword and view websites that are similar or match your keyword.
- [Alexa Similar Site Search](https://www.alexa.com/find-similar-sites)
A great similar site search tool offered by Amazon. Simply search any URL and view the results. For additional results a paid subscription is required.
- [SiteLike](https://www.sitelike.org/)
Another simple tool to find related websites via URL.
- [SimilarWeb](https://www.similarweb.com/)
A great tool for finding similar and/or competitor websites. Search via website URL.
## **Document and File Search**
- [Library Genesis](https://libgen.rs/)
This is the largest free library in human history. Giving the world free access to over 84 million scholarly journals, over 6.6 million academic and general-interest books, over 2.2 million comics, and over 381 thousand magazines. Commonly referred to as "Libgen" for short. Libgen has zero regard for copyright.
- [SciHub](https://sci-hub.se/)
A "shadow library" that provides free access to millions of research papers and books by bypassing paywalls. SciHub has zero regard for copyright.
- [The-Eye](https://the-eye.eu/public)
An open directory data archive dedicated to the long-term preservation of any and all data including websites, books, games, software, video, audio, other digital-obscura and ideas. Currently hosts over 140TB of data for free.
- [The-EyeDex](https://eyedex.org/)
A searchable index of the-eye.eu. Much faster than manually digging through subfolders or using Google dorks.
- [SlideShare](https://www.slideshare.net/)
Allows users to upload content including presentations, infographics, documents, and videos. Users can upload files privately or publicly in PowerPoint, Word, PDF, or OpenDocument format.
- [Directory of Open Access Journals](https://doaj.org/)
Search over 16,000 journals, over 6.5 million articles in 80 different languages from 129 different countries.
Search for open directories and files on the web or in Google Drives via keywords. Including document, video, audio, image and executable files. Uses Google dorks.
- [Palined Open Directory Search](http://palined.com/search/)
Search for files and open directories via keyword. Uses a Google CSE.
The worlds largest video sharing site. You already know what this is.
- [Vimeo](https://vimeo.com/)
A video sharing site that allows users to upload their content in 4K. Also offers many post-production, management, collaboration and feedback tools.
- [PeteyVid](https://www.peteyvid.com/)
A video and audio search engine that searches over 70 different platforms.
- [Odysee](https://odysee.com)
A video sharing website that uses the LBRY blockchain network.
- [BiliBili](https://www.bilibili.com/)
A Chinese video sharing website that is very similar to YouTube.
## **Code Search**
- [grep.app](https://grep.app/)
Search for strings across half a million git repos.
- [SearchCode](https://searchcode.com/)
A great free source code search engine. Helps locate real world examples of functions, API's and libraries in 243 languages from over ten public code sources.
- [SourceGraph](https://sourcegraph.com/search)
A web-based code search and navigation tool. Indexes every open source repository with more than 1 star. Claims to have indexed over 1 million repositories and counting.
A great tool for searching blogs online. Search for a blog, submit your own blogs, or subscribe to an RSS feed on the blog topic.
## **Job Search**
- [Monster](https://www.monster.com/)
A global employment website where you can search through millions of job listings.
- [ZipRecruiter](https://www.ziprecruiter.com/)
Search millions of job listings by area.
- [Indeed](https://indeed.com/)
Launched in 2004, Indeed is a worldwide employment website for job listings.
- [Glassdoor](https://www.glassdoor.com/)
A website where current and former employees can anonymously review companies. Also allows users to anonymously submit and view salaries as well as search and apply for jobs on its platform.
## **Archive Search**
- [Internet Archive](https://archive.org/)
Internet Archive is a non-profit library of millions of free books, movies, software, music, websites, and more.
- [Wayback Machine](https://web.archive.org/)
A digital archive of the World Wide Web. Allows you to search and view historical versions of websites.
- [Archive.today](https://archive.ph/)
An archive site which stores historical snapshots of web pages.
- [WebCite](https://www.webcitation.org/)
WebCite is an on-demand archive site, designed to digitally preserve scientific and educationally important material on the web by making snapshots of Internet contents as they existed at the time when a blogger, or a scholar cited or quoted from it.
Google takes a snapshot of each web page as a backup in case the current page isn't available. Simply enter the address you wish to search at the end of the URL. Example: `https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:<ENTER URL HERE>`
Bing also allows you to view cached webpages. Simply search `url:www.<ENTER URL HERE>`, click the small arrow next to the result, then click on "Cached".
- [MementoWeb Time Travel](https://timetravel.mementoweb.org/)
Find Mementos in Internet Archive, Archive-It, British Library, archive.today, GitHub and many more.
- [The End of Term Archive](http://eotarchive.cdlib.org/)
This archive contains snapshots of federal government websites (.gov, .mil, etc) in the legislative, executive, or judicial branches of the US government.
- [EU Web Archive](https://op.europa.eu/en/web/web-tools/euwebarchive)
Contains the main websites of the EU institutions, which are hosted on the european .eu domain and subdomains. Its aim is to preserve EU web content in the long term and to keep it accessible for the public.
- [iTools](http://itools.com/)
iTools is not just a website repository, but it is also a website analyzer that provides you with specifics of the website like contact information, website traffic, Alexa rating, website reputation, data, etc.
## **Newspaper and News Search**
- [NewspaperMap](https://newspapermap.com/)
An interactive map of the world that shows you the different newspaper publishers for a specific area, simply zoom into an area of interest.
Lets you search for pastes that have emails, passwords, user:password combos and more.
- [Pastebin Search](https://pastebin.ga/)
Allows you to search over 33 different paste sites. Uses a Google CSE.
- [Online IDE and Paste Search Engine](https://redhuntlabs.com/online-ide-search)
Search and find strings across multiple IDEs, code aggregators and paste sites.
- [Doxbin](https://doxbin.org/)
A document sharing and publishing website which invites users to contribute personally identifiable information (PII), or a "dox" of any person of interest. It previously operated on the darknet as a TOR hidden service.
This is one of the coolest collection of online OSINT tools I have seen. Find people for free by phone number, name, email address, and username on Facebook and in public records. Created by [@netbootcamp](https://twitter.com/netbootcamp), so be sure to follow them for updates.
One of the best tools for searching people by username, email address, real name or phone number and build a dossier on your target. Searches social media sites, data breaches, documents and much more. Requires a paid subscription after first search.
Provides easy to use tools for Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, Reddit, SnapChat, YouTube, Periscope, Twitch, Google+, LinkedIn and more.
- [SMAT](https://www.smat-app.com/)
The Social Media Analysis Toolkit (SMAT) was designed to help analyze and visualize larger trends on a variety of platforms including Reddit, Gab, Parler, 4chan, 8kun, Telegram, Gettr and more.
- [SkyLens](https://app.skylens.io/)
Find geotagged posts from five social networks at once on one map. Includes Twitter, YouTube, Instagram, Flickr and Vkontakte.
- [Export Comments](https://exportcomments.com/)
Allows you to easily export comments and other details to .xls format from various social media platforms including Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, YouTube, TikTok, VK, Twitch, Discord and Steam. Free use if limited to 100 comments, a paid subscription is required to remove this limitation.
- [Synapsint](https://synapsint.com/)
Described as the "Unified OSINT research tool". Scrapes data from other sources, combines the results, then displays it using a simple interface. Search for domain, IP address, IPv6 address, ASN, SSL certs, Google accounts, email address, phone number, Twitter handle or Bitcoin address.
Allows to search for content in social networks in real-time and provides deep analytics data. Users can search without logging in for publicly posted information on Twitter, Google+, Facebook, YouTube, Instagram, Tumblr, Reddit, Flickr, Dailymotion and Vimeo.
- [SocialBlade](https://socialblade.com/)
Tracks user statistics for YouTube, Twitch, Instagram, and Twitter accounts.
- [Kriburm](https://kribrum.io/search)
A Russian site that act as a search engine for different social media platforms. Includes filters by author and time period.
- [AussieFinder](https://aussiefinder.com.au/)
Search 5 different social media networks at once for Australian citizens. Uses a Google CSE.
Another great search engine for public Discord servers.
- [DiscordHub User Search](https://discordhub.com/user/search)
A tool for searching Discord users.
- [DiscordID](https://discord.id/)
Another good tool for searching Discord users.
- [Top.gg](https://top.gg/)
Search for Discord bots.
- [UnfURL](https://dfir.blog/unfurl/)
If you have any URLs of interest from Discord, you can potentially extract additional timestamp info. Each Discord ID (for user, channel, server, or file attachment) has an embedded timestamp that shows when that object was created. This tool will help you extract them.
- [Discord Snowflake to Timestamp](https://pixelatomy.com/snow-stamp/)
A "snowflake" is essentially a unique ID for a resource which contains a timestamp. You can copy the snowflake from a message, user, channel, etc by right clicking on them in Discord. This will let you check the age of a Discord account or server.
- [Discord History Tracker](https://dht.chylex.com/)
Lets you save chat history in your servers, groups, and private conversations, and view it offline. Be careful, as this tool technically goes against Discord's ToS, so its possible that you could get your account banned!
A simple way to quickly search for multiple keywords from a list or open mutual friends for multiple profiles at the same time. It simply loads a new tab for each word or ID searched to create efficiency when working from a list of search terms or IDs, it does not do any advanced searching or automation.
An .onion site that allows you to search through the full 2019 Facebook data breach. Click [here](http://4wbwa6vcpvcr3vvf4qkhppgy56urmjcj2vagu2iqgp3z656xcmfdbiqd.onion.pet/) for a clearnet proxy.
- [WhoPostedWhat?](https://whopostedwhat.com/)
Allows you to search keywords by specific dates, date ranges and location.
A leaked internal document from Facebook that contains their list of dangerous individuals and groups. Worth saving. Archived copies available [here (Wayback)](https://web.archive.org/web/20211013174325/https://theintercept.com/document/2021/10/12/facebook-dangerous-individuals-and-organizations-list-reproduced-snapshot/) and [here (archive.today)](https://archive.ph/LQLhK). Original PDF available [[PDF]here](https://s3.documentcloud.org/documents/21083819/facebook-dangerous-individuals-and-organizations-list-reproduced-snapshot.pdf). Archived copy available [here (Wayback)](https://web.archive.org/web/20211014081041/https://s3.documentcloud.org/documents/21083819/facebook-dangerous-individuals-and-organizations-list-reproduced-snapshot.pdf).
Tool to search for a persons Gravatar by entering an email address.
## **Instagram**
- [SearchUsers](https://searchusers.com/)
Search for Instagram users by name or username.
- [SearchMyBio](https://www.searchmy.bio/)
Search a users bio. Find users that list their location, interests, occupation, other social media accounts and whatever else is listed on their profile biography.
Takes geo-tagged Instagram posts and plots them on a map. Similar to Worldcam.
- [MetaHashtags](https://metahashtags.com/)
Find all related Instagram posts via hashtags with analytics and metrics. Allows you to sort hashtags and export them to a list. They also offer a paid subscription that includes additional tools.
- [Pixwox](https://www.pixwox.com/)
Instagram profile, post, story viewer and downloader, easily view and download Instagram photo and videos online.
- [Dumpor](https://dumpor.com/)
View profiles, reels, stories, followers, following and tagged posts anonymously. Allows you to download posts.
- [Instadp](https://www.instadp.com/)
An online tool that displays full size profile pictures of a user. It also allows you to download photos, videos, stories and reels.
- [Find Instagram User ID](https://codeofaninja.com/tools/find-instagram-user-id/)
A simple tool that extracts a users Instagram user ID from their username.
## **Kik Messenger**
- [Kik User Information](https://ws2.kik.com/user/<username_goes_here>)
Enter a Kik username and get information for that account in JSON format. Includes full name, profile picture, and a UNIX formatted timestamp of when the profile picture was last changed. Example: `https://ws2.kik.com/user/<username_goes_here`.
Check if a username exists simply by entering in a username in the URL. Displays full name, username and profile picture. Example: `http://kik.me/<username_goes_here>`.
Recruit'em is a tool that helps you find people on social networks. It creates a basic Boolean string that searches for publicly available webpages using Google.
One of the best Reddit archives out there. Search for deleted posts and comments. Allows you to search by username, subreddit, date range, string, or a commination of all.
Search for a username and see their Snap Code. Simply edit the URL and input a username, like so; `https://feelinsonice.appspot.com/web/deeplink/snapcode?username=ENTER-USERNAME-HERE&size=400&type=SVG`.
Enter a username and view any of their public SnapChat stories as well as account information like display name, Snap Code and Bitmoji avatar. Example; `https://story.snapchat.com/@ENTER-USERNAME-HERE`.
- [GhostCodes](https://www.ghostcodes.com/)
Snapchat discovery platform that enables you to find new people to follow on Snapchat, and allows "influencers" to grow their following.
- [[PDF] Snap Inc. Law Enforcement Guide](https://storage.googleapis.com/snap-inc/privacy/lawenforcement.pdf)
A very useful guide for law enforcement when dealing with SnapChat during an investigation. Archived copies can be found [here (Wayback)](https://web.archive.org/web/20210724093427/https://storage.googleapis.com/snap-inc/privacy/lawenforcement.pdf) and [here (archive.today)](https://archive.ph/Pcf0U).
## **Skype**
- [Skype Search Engine](https://www.skypli.com/)
Search for Skype users by username, real name or location. Provides profile picture, name, Skype username, country, city, date of birth and live ID.
A simple tool that retrieves a Skype account details such as profile picture, username, real name and location from an email address. Looks like a typical skid site, but it actually does work. This site also offers a bunch of other useful tools as well.
In October 6th, 2021, Twitch got hacked and their data was dumped online. This article explains the contents of the breached data and provides a magnet URI to download the raw data. Page has been archived [here (archive.today)](https://archive.ph/IBNSS). Read the official statement from Twitch [here](https://blog.twitch.tv/en/2021/10/06/updates-on-the-twitch-security-incident/).
Data was taken from the hacked Twitch data that was leaked online on October 6th, 2021. Page archived [here (Wayback)](https://web.archive.org/web/20211007151749/https://twitch.fckdmca.com/) and [here (archive.today)](https://archive.ph/MKGsy).
## **Twitter**
- [TinfoLeak](https://tinfoleak.com/)
Create a dossier on a Twitter user. Information includes name, username, profile picture, location, followers, devices, applications and operating systems used, social networks, creation date, hashstags used, user mentions, and more.
- [AccountAnalysis](https://accountanalysis.app/)
This tool enables you to evaluate Twitter accounts. For example how automated they are, how many retweets they post, or which websites they link to most often.
- [Nitter](https://nitter.net/)
Allows you to view a persons posts, images and videos without having a Twitter account yourself. Also has a very handy search function that allows you to search through a persons tweets for a specific string.
- [Account Change History Search](https://spoonbill.io/twitter/data/<USERNAME-HERE>/)
Spoonbill lets you see profile changes from the people you follow on Twitter. Contains bios, website, locations, and name history.
- [Advanced Search on Twitter](https://github.com/igorbrigadir/twitter-advanced-search)
A nice page that describes the various different search operators that can be utilized on the Twitter [advanced search function](https://twitter.com/search-advanced).
- [TruthNest](https://app.truthnest.com/)
Analytics and statistics for a Twitter account. Requires you to login.
- [TweetBeaver](https://tweetbeaver.com/)
A great collection of various tools for preforming Twitter account OSINT. Requires you to be sign into your Twitter account.
Allows you to search old and/or deleted tweets from a specific user. Does not work with every account and this site is no longer maintained as far as I know.
An OSINT tool for scraping data from the untappd.com social media site.
## **VKontakte**
- [Search4Faces](https://search4faces.com/)
Search by image for VK, Odnoklassniki, TikTok and Clubhouse profiles.
- [Photo-Map](http://photo-map.ru/)
Search for geo-tagged posts from vk.com.
- [VK City4Me](http://vk.city4me.com/)
A great tool for tracking a VK users time spent online.
## **VSCO**
- [VSCO Search](https://vsco.co/search/images/)
Search for users and images on the official VSCO platform. They have no option for users to set things as private, so all information is public, including image metadata when available.
- [VSCO Page](https://vsco.page/)
Allows you to view full VSCO profiles, posts and image metadata. Also lets you download images and videos. Warning, this site goes quite heavy on the pop-ups and ads.
Tool for searching YouTube channels by keyword and creation date. The result is a table with the channel ID, name, description, date of creation, as well as the number of subscribers, views, and uploaded videos.
Tool that allows you to enter a phone number and view the WhatsApp account connected to it. Including username and profile picture. Requires a paid subscription.
- [WhatsApp Law Enforcement Guide](https://faq.whatsapp.com/general/security-and-privacy/information-for-law-enforcement-authorities)
A guide for law enforcement personnel when dealing with and requesting data from WhatsApp.
## **4chan and 8chan**
- [Archived.moe](https://archived.moe/)
A searchable archive of most 4chan boards.
- [Archive Of Sins](https://archiveofsins.com/)
An archive of NSFW 4chan boards. The search function is offline at the time of writing this. It's database is almost identical as the site mentioned above.
Searchable archive of various SFW 4chan boards. Basically a clone of the above web site.
- [4chan Search](https://4chansearch.com/)
A Google CSE that allows you to search 4chan and its various archives.
- [Search4chan](https://search4chan.org/)
Essentially a clone of the above site.
- [4plebs](https://4plebs.org/)
A searchable archive of all threads and images from /adv/, /f/, /hr/, /o/, /pol/, /sp/, /tg/, /trv/, /tv/ and /x/. Reminder: 4chan is serious business, you might get offended.
- [The /b/ Archive](https://thebarchive.com/)
A searchable archive of /b/, /bant/ and /talk/. Beware, lots of NSFW content here.
- [4chan Find](https://find.4chan.org/)
Search current 4chan threads for matching keywords.
- [4chan Archives](https://4chanarchives.com/)
A really old, non-searchable archive of 4chan. Dated from 2016.
- [Qresearch](https://qresear.ch/)
A searchable archive of "QAnon" related posts from 8kun/8chan.
<u>**Mapping and Geo-Spatial Intelligence [GEOINT]**</u>
A web mapping platform and consumer application offered by Google. It offers satellite imagery, aerial photography, street maps, 360° interactive panoramic views of streets, real-time traffic conditions, and route planning for traveling by foot, car, air and public transportation.
- [Bing Maps](https://www.bing.com/maps)
A web mapping service provided as a part of Microsoft's Bing suite of search engines and powered by the Bing Maps for Enterprise framework.
- [OpenStreetMap](https://www.openstreetmap.org/)
A collaborative project to create a free editable geographic database of the world. The geodata underlying the maps is considered the primary output of the project.
- [Soar Earth](https://soar.earth/)
Allows you to explore and download satellite, aerial and drone imagery of the Earth.
- [Wayback World Imagery](https://livingatlas.arcgis.com/wayback/)
A digital archive of the world imagery base map, enabling users to access different versions of world imagery captured over the years.
The only search engine that includes over 115 million images and 54 satellite, aerial and DEM datasets from all around the world.
- [HereWeGo Maps](https://wego.here.com/)
A free mapping tool similar to Google Maps. They also offer a mobile application that allows you to download maps of areas for offline use. Very handy.
- [MapQuest](https://www.mapquest.com/)
A free online web mapping service. Allows you to find driving directions, maps, live traffic updates and road conditions, nearby businesses, restaurants and hotels.
Maxar offers the most comprehensive suite of commercial satellite imagery. Highlight an area of interest, view and download historical satellite imagery. Requires a paid subscription for best results.
A great tool for Australian-oriented geospatial investigations. Includes some incredibly high-res imagery.
- [NOAA Digital Coast](https://coast.noaa.gov/dataviewer)
Provides the data, tools, and training that communities use to manage their coastal resources. Here users find topics of interest from climate adaptation to ocean planning, plus quick access to the Digital Coast data, tools, and training most relevant to a particular topic.
- [Wikimapia](http://wikimapia.org)
A geographic online encyclopedia project. The project implements an interactive web map that utilizes popular mapping services with a geographically-referenced wiki system, with the aim to mark and describe all geographical objects in the world.
- [City-Data](https://www.city-data.com/)
Collecting and analyzing data from a variety of government and private sources, they are able to create detailed, informative profiles for every city in the United States. From crime rates to weather patterns.
- [360cities](https://www.360cities.net/map)
Interactive map that lets you explore panoramic images taken in specific locations.
- [EOS Land Viewer](https://eos.com/landviewer/)
Land Viewer is a satellite observation imagery tool that allows for on-the-fly searching, processing and getting valuable insights from satellites data to tackle real business issues. Lets you mark and download satellite imagery. Requires a paid subscription for best results.
Interactive map of open waters, mangroves, swamps, fens, riverines, flood swamps, marshes, wet meadows and floodplains. Does not include every country.
- [FreeMapTools](https://www.freemaptools.com/)
An online resource that enables visitors to easily and quickly use maps in order to measure, search and overlay mark-up elements on maps for a wide range of useful applications.
- [ArcGIS Living Atlas of the World](https://livingatlas.arcgis.com/en/home/)
ArcGIS Living Atlas of the World is the foremost collection of geographic information from around the globe. It includes maps, apps, and data layers to support your work.
- [Overpass Turbo](https://overpass-turbo.eu/)
A web based data mining tool for OpenStreetMap. It runs any kind of Overpass API query and shows the results on an interactive map. Using it can get technical quite quickly, beginners may find the "wizard" a good place to start.
- [MapChannels](https://www.mapchannels.com/)
Lets users easily embed maps into websites and blogs. A number of tools are available to create maps from KML, GeoRSS or spreadsheet map data. A range of features and options let you customize the map appearance to meet a range of mapping needs.
A simple tool that allows you to get GPS coordinates from an address or landmark.
- [SunCalc](http://suncalc.net/)
A simple tool that determines sun rises and sunsets by location.
## **Street View Maps**
- [KartaView](https://kartaview.org/landing)
Is a project to collect crowdsourced street-level photographs for improving OpenStreetMap.
- [Mapillary](https://www.mapillary.com/app/)
A crowd-sourced street-level imagery platform that scales and automates mapping using collaboration, cameras, and computer vision.
- [Instant Street View](https://www.instantstreetview.com/)
Uses the Google Places Library Autocomplete service to quickly get the location you're looking for. It uses the street view service to display the street view panoramas and allows for easy bookmarking or sharing. It is fast and features clear images.
- [RouteView](https://routeview.org/VirtualRide/)
See your route via Google Street view. Requires a Google Maps API key.
## **Political Maps**
- [IR Map](https://www.ir-map.com/)
IR Map provides a clear and comprehensive picture of international relations between countries.
- [24 Time Zones](https://24timezones.com/timezone-map)
This interactive map represent time zones around the world and cities observing them. Just point at the city on the map or search it in the search field to see the detailed information.
- [Native Land](https://native-land.ca/)
A global map of first nations land and reservations.
- [CIVICUS Monitor](https://monitor.civicus.org/)
A research tool and map that provides close to real-time data on the state of civil society and civic freedoms in 196 different countries.
- [HateMap](https://www.splcenter.org/hate-map)
Provides information about various hate groups across the USA.
- [World Map of Encryption](https://www.gp-digital.org/world-map-of-encryption/)
An interactive world map that shows the the legal status of encryption by country. In some countries, the use of encryption-related technologies is relatively unconstrained; in others, companies and users face significant restrictions.
An online service that provides global weather data via API, including current weather data, forecasts, nowcasts and historical weather data for any geographical location on Earth.
See current wind, weather, ocean, and pollution conditions, as forecast by supercomputers on an interactive animated map. Updated every three hours.
- [Windy](https://www.windy.com/)
View current worldwide wind and weather forecasts.
- [EIA Maps](https://www.eia.gov/maps/)
A collection of interactive maps for energy infrastructure, floods, real-time storm tracking and a wide variety of other data offered by the US Energy Information Administration.
Find historical weather information by searching for a city, postal code, or airport code. Include a date that you would like to see weather history for.
- [Ventusky](https://www.ventusky.com/)
Live wind, rain and temperature maps, detailed forecast for your place, data from the best weather forecast models such as GFS, ICON, GEM.
- [LightningMap](https://www.lightningmaps.org/)
See lightning strikes in real time across the planet. Free access to maps of former thunderstorms.
View current weather reports for basically everywhere.
- [RainAlarm](https://www.rain-alarm.com/)
A map that shows where it is currently raining.
- [World Air Quality Index](https://waqi.info/)
Shows global air quality information in real-time.
### **Natural Disaster Maps**
- [FireSmoke](https://firesmoke.ca/)
Contains information about wildland fire weather and smoke. From here you can access smoke forecasts, fire weather forecasts, fire information and track the movement of smoke.
- [NASA Fire Map](https://firms.modaps.eosdis.nasa.gov/map)
A map of current fire hotpots from around the world provided by NASA.
- [NOAA NCEI Global Hazards Map](https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/maps/hazards/)
View natural hazards from around the world.
- [TornadoHQ](https://www.tornadohq.com/live/)
Displays live information and warnings about tornados in the U.S. on a map. They also provide a historical archive of tornado warnings.
A tool that lists current information about earthquakes happening around the world in near real-time.
- [Tertremo Live Earthquake Map](https://www.tertremo.com/)
An interactive map that shows you earthquakes and information about those earthquakes happening across the globe in near real-time.
- [GDACS](https://gdacs.org/)
The Global Disaster Alerting Coordination System (GDACS) provides real-time access to web‐based disaster information systems and related coordination tools.
- [Cyclocane](https://www.cyclocane.com/)
An interactive map that shows information about hurricanes.
Provides a map and information about current volcanic activity all over the globe. Major and minor eruptions, activity reports and warnings.
- [Volcanoes And Earthquakes](https://www.volcanoesandearthquakes.com/)
A live interactive map that displays information about active volcanic eruptions and earthquakes currently taking place around the world.
- [Smithsonian Global Volcanism Program](https://volcano.si.edu/gvp_currenteruptions.cfm)
Another map and information source for current and historic global volcanic activity.
- [USGS Hawaii Lava Flows](https://www.usgs.gov/observatories/hawaiian-volcano-observatory/lava-flow)
Provides information and tracking of lava flows and high-risk areas on the Hawaiian Islands. Click [here](https://pubs.usgs.gov/mf/1992/2193/) for the latest lava flow hazard map. Archived copies of the .pdf document are available [here (Wayback)](https://web.archive.org/web/20211010025640/https://pubs.usgs.gov/mf/1992/2193/mf2193.pdf) and [here (archive.today)](https://archive.ph/h9gbJ).
A 3D interactive map of shipwrecks from various time periods.
- [Wrecks and Obstructions](https://nauticalcharts.noaa.gov/data/wrecks-and-obstructions.html)
A database and map of shipwrecks and obstructions on the sea floor.
## **Tree Maps**
- [OpenTreeMap](https://opentreemap.github.io/)
A collaborative platform for crowdsourced tree inventory, ecosystem services calculations and urban forestry analysis. Basically one giant database of trees.
- [NYC Street Tree Map](https://tree-map.nycgovparks.org/)
The world's most accurate and detailed map of Ney York's street trees.
- [London Street Trees](https://apps.london.gov.uk/street-trees/)
A dataset of street trees in London, UK. There are currently 815,916 trees in this dataset.
- [Vancouver Street Trees](https://opendata.vancouver.ca/explore/dataset/street-trees/information/?disjunctive.species_name&disjunctive.common_name&disjunctive.height_range_id)
A dataset of street trees in Vancouver, BC Canada.
- [Toronto Street Trees](https://open.toronto.ca/dataset/street-tree-data/)
A dataset of street trees in Toronto, ON Canada.
## **Network Maps**
### **Cell Tower Maps**
- [OpenCellID](https://opencellid.org/)
The world's largest open database of cell towers.
- [SCADACore US Cell Tower Map](https://www.scadacore.com/tools/rf-path/cell-tower-map-united-states/)
Features over 25,000 locations with corresponding tower and radio information. This map is useful in planning and troubleshooting cellular networks.
Presents the locations of tower sites for each licensed Canadian wireless provider. Each site is indicated by a color coded icon.
### **Cellular Coverage Maps**
- [CellMapper](https://www.cellmapper.net/map)
A crowd-sourced cellular tower and coverage mapping service for the USA. Maps actual coverage of cellular networks based on real life conditions and the coverage and signal strength of the network in areas that have been mapped.
An interactive gas map that provides a comprehensive source of facility and project data. Allows users to access the latest project data including facility status and ownership details, detailed pipeline information, industry gas information and more.
## **Other Mapping Resources**
- [World Map of OSINT Tools](https://cipher387.github.io/osintmap/)
An awesome collection of OSINT tools plotted and sorted on a map. Created by [@cyb_detective](https://twitter.com/cyb_detective), be sure to give him a follow!
- [RideWithGPS](https://ridewithgps.com/users)
Find bicyclists by name and/or location, view maps and other information about their bicycle routes.
- [BikeMap](https://www.bikemap.net/)
The world's biggest bike route collection. Find cycling routes by country. Requires registration to upload your own data.
- [RunMap](http://www.runmap.net/en/)
One of the largest collections of running routes on the web. Allows you to extract GPS data.
- [WanderMap](http://www.wandermap.net/en/)
One of the largest collections of hike routes on the internet. Allows you to extract GPS data.
- [GeoNames](https://www.geonames.org/)
Geographical database covers all countries and contains over 11 million place names that are available for download free of charge.
- [WorldAtlas Countries of the World](https://www.worldatlas.com/countries)
Lists information about each country on Earth. Including flags, populations, GDP statistics, capital cities, ISO codes and dialing codes.
- [I Know Where Your Cat Lives](https://iknowwhereyourcatlives.com/)
A data visualization experiment that locates a sample of one million public images of cats on a world map by the latitude and longitude coordinates that is embedded in the images EXIF data.
- [ShadowCalculator](http://shadowcalculator.eu/)
Display building shadows on google maps for specified location and time. Calculate the azimuth and altitude of the sun.
- [GigaPan](http://www.gigapan.com/)
Provides hardware, software, and services to create and share high-resolution, interactive gigapixel panoramic images.
- [Speed Camera DB](https://www.scdb.info/en/karte/)
A worldwide interactive map of speed cameras and speed traps.
- [Wheelmap](https://wheelmap.org/)
A global wheelchair accessibility map.
- [World Map of Social Networks](https://vincos.it/world-map-of-social-networks/)
A map that details the most popular social networks per country. Also provides a wealth of statistics.
A directory that shows you the different types of power plug sockets used in different parts of the world.
- [World Map of Alphabets](https://www.key-shortcut.com/en/writing-systems/world-map-of-alphabets-scripts)
A great resource for identifying where in the world a specific written language or script is from.
- [Bollards of the World](https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1Glk_gUpSThPqof22DKI3_ol73CULxCeKxEC99z_BM30/htmlview)
A great list of the different types bollards used around the world. Includes images as well. I converted this into a .pdf for offline use, available [here](https://anonfiles.com/90l8M8M7u8/Bollards-of-the-World_pdf). Archived copy available [here (Wayback)](https://web.archive.org/web/20211010055522/https://cdn-131.anonfiles.com/90l8M8M7u8/3fd7c7c4-1633845914/Bollards-of-the-World.pdf).
- [McBroken](https://mcbroken.com/)
An interactive that tells you which McDonalds locations currently have broken ice cream machines. Probably one of the best uses of OSINT I have ever seen.
# <u>**Imagery Intelligence [IMINT]**</u>
## **General Image Search**
- [PastVu](https://pastvu.com/)
View old photos from 1826 to 2000 that have been geo-located and plotted on a map.
- [FaceSaerch](http://www.facesaerch.com/)
Uses Google to search for images of faces from a specific keyword.
## **Reverse Image Search**
- [PimEyes](https://pimeyes.com/)
A reverse image search engine that uses facial recognition to find pictures containing given faces. See where images that match a persons face appear online. Free search results are censored, to see uncensored results and view matching URLs requires a paid subscription.
Reverse image search with facial recognition and character recognition turned on.
- [Tineye](https://tineye.com)
A reverse image search engine. It was the first image search engine on the web to use image identification technology rather than keywords, metadata or watermarks.
- [Google Images](https://images.google.com)
Google reverse image search.
- [KarmaDecay](https://karmadecay.com/)
A reverse image search tool for Reddit. Currently still in beta.
- [ImgOps](https://imgops.com/)
An online image toolkit. Allows you to preform reverse image searches on many different platforms, metadata extraction, image editing and conversions.
- [Pl@ntNet](https://identify.plantnet.org/)
A web application which allows you to identify plants simply by taking a picture of them with your phone. They also provide a a free mobile application for [Android](https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.plantnet) and [iPhone](https://itunes.apple.com/app/plantnet/id600547573). Allows you to identify all kinds of plants including flowering plants, trees, grasses, conifers, ferns, vines, wild salads and cacti. Before you ask, yes it works with weed plants.
Simply upload an image and find matching images and similar images using Google, Bing and Yandex.
- [Image-Search](https://www.image-search.org/)
Allows you to find the most relevant pictures online. With this reverse image search tool, you can search pictures by uploading directly or by using a keyword or however you want.
- [Berify](https://berify.com/)
Reverse image search to help you find stolen images and videos. Search over 800 million images along with image data from all of the major image search engines. Requires an account and a paid subscription to view full results.
- [Pixsy](https://www.pixsy.com/)
An online platform for creatives and image owners to discover where and how their images are being used online. Great for identifying copyrighted images and automating DMCA takedowns.
- [MySeldon News](https://news.myseldon.com/en/)
Reverse search an image of a lesser known official, politician, local TV anchor, or whomever to find related information and articles. Searching for Russian companies also works if the image contains a valid OGRN number.
Search for items via images in both AliExpress and eBay.
- [Same Energy](https://same.energy/)
A visual search engine. You can use it to find art, photography, decoration ideas, or virtually anything else.
- [Search by Image](https://searchbyimage.app/)
Search for any products by using an image. Helps you find deals.
- [Sogou Image Search](https://pic.sogou.com/)
A Chinese reverse image search tool. Works quite well.
- [Qihoo360](https://image.so.com/)
A Chinese reverse image search tool. Also works pretty well.
- [Lykdat](https://lykdat.com/)
Search for clothing via reverse image search.
- [IQDB](https://iqdb.org/)
A reverse image search tool designed for anime and manga art.
- [ASCII2D](https://ascii2d.net/)
Japanese reverse image search engine for identifying anime.
## **Image Generation**
- [This Person Does Not Exist](https://thispersondoesnotexist.com/)
Uses generative adversarial networks (GAN) to generate an image of a person that does not exist. Good for sock puppet accounts.
- [This X Does Not Exist](https://thisxdoesnotexist.com/)
A directory of websites that use generative adversarial networks (GAN) to generate images of a wide variety of things.
- [FaceMaker](https://facemaker.uvrg.org/)
Based on the average European face can to design a virtual character in real time. You decide on the facial parameters of an avatar. Save, render, and share the generated 3D models. Application is based on WebGL.
Features a multitude of images tampering detection algorithms as well as metadata analysis, geolocation, thumbnail extraction and integration with Google reverse image search.
- [ImageEdited?](https://imageedited.com/)
A tool that helps detect if an uploaded image has been edited or "shopped" (That means "photoshopped").
Upload an image and see its EXIF, IPTC and XML metadata. Also provides an error level analysis (ELA) tool.
- [Pic2Map](https://www.pic2map.com/)
An online EXIF data viewer with GPS support which allows you to locate and view photos on a map.
- [ForensicDots](https://www.forensicdots.de/)
A web application that detects printer machine identification codes (MICs). Also known as the infamous ["yellow dots"](http://seeingyellow.com/) or "tracking dots".
Promotes space flight safety, protection of the space environment and the peaceful use of space worldwide by sharing space situational awareness services and information with U.S. and international satellite owners/operators, academia and other entities. Requires account.
- [N2YO](https://www.n2yo.com/)
Select any satellite orbiting the Earth and check where is located in real-time. Check satellite passes over your location and receive alerts on your phone.
- [Heavens-Above](https://www.heavens-above.com/)
Provides satellite predictions and other astronomical data customized for your location.
- [SatFlare](http://www.satflare.com/track.as)
Track in real time all the satellites orbiting the Earth, with both 2D and 3D interactive representations, predict their passes, view their trajectory among stars on an interactive sky chart, predict satellite flares and transits (across the Sun and the Moon). You can also follow satellite re-entries and other special events.
- [In The Sky](https://in-the-sky.org/)
Provides astronomy news, interactive guides to the night sky, satellite information and tracking.
This is a great collection of information regarding amateur cube satellites.
- [List of Mission Patches](http://www.seasky.org/space-exploration/mission-patches-menu.html)
A great resource that displays images and information for *most* mission patches from the early days of space exploration to present day missions. Appears to be missing some more recent patches like the [Inspiration 4](https://inspiration4.com/) patch and a few others.
- [[PDF] NASA ISS Reference Guide](https://www.nasa.gov/pdf/508318main_ISS_ref_guide_nov2010.pdf)
A document provided by NASA in November 2010 that acts as a reference guide and provides details of the construction and layout of the International Space Station. Archived copies can be found [here (Wayback)](https://web.archive.org/web/20210912213137/https://www.nasa.gov/pdf/508318main_ISS_ref_guide_nov2010.pdf) and [here (Library Genesis)](http://libgen.rs/book/index.php?md5=8E878DE8BE1D9C769B83D2C7CCE68FE2).
A visualization of satellites, debris, and other objects tracked by LeoLabs in low earth orbit.
- [Stuff In Space](http://stuffin.space/)
Stuff in Space is a real-time 3D map of objects in Earth orbit, visualized using WebGL. Daily updates with orbit data from Space-Track.org and uses the excellent satellite.js JavaScript library to calculate satellite positions.
This satellite map shows current position and trajectory of over 19300 satellites orbiting the Earth. View satellites by country, type, size, launch date, ect.
Find business information for corporate risk, B2B marketing and sales. Explore data on over 170 million companies across 200 different countries. Requires a paid subscription.
- [BizDirLib](https://bizdirlib.com/country)
A large business directory sorted by country.
- [BizEurope](http://www.bizeurope.com/)
A directory of European businesses, sorted by category.
- [Panjiva](https://panjiva.com/)
Provides supply chain intelligence for global trade companies. Requires a paid subscription.
## **Patents and Trademarks**
- [Google Patents](https://patents.google.com/)
Search Google for patents, documents and other related patent information.
- [US Patent and Trademark Search](https://uspto.report)
Search for a U.S. companies registered patents, trademarks and other copyright information.
A large directory of business registries from all over the world.
- [Around The World Company Registration](https://www.sg.ch/recht/handelsregister-notariate.html)
Similar directory of worldwide company registries, they also offer many other great company research tools. Click [here](https://www-sg-ch.translate.goog/recht/handelsregister-notariate.html?_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en-GB&_x_tr_pto=nui) for a German to English translation.
A company search tool that provides a wealth of data. Search by company name, beneficial owner. They also offer their data sets for download.
### **Country and Region Specific Registries**
#### **Africa**
- **South Africa**
- [Companies and Intellectual Property Commission](https://eservices.cipc.co.za/)
Search for South African companies and intellectual property records. Requires registration.
#### **Europe**
- [North Data](https://www.northdata.com/)
Provides easily understandable company information that is publicly available for European companies. Obtained from sources such as trade registers, yearly reports, funding registers, trademark registers, patent registers and others.
#### **North America**
- **Canada**
- [Canada Business Registries Search](https://beta.canadasbusinessregistries.ca/search)
Search through the official registries of Alberta, British Columbia, Manitoba, Ontario, Quebec, Saskatchewan, and Corporations Canada. This service lets you search across these registries at one time. Information from these registries may be updated on a daily or monthly basis.
## **Shipping and International Trade**
- [ImportYeti](https://www.importyeti.com/)
Search over 70 Million U.S. Customs sea shipment records. Displays plenty of import information, analytics and company information.
- [Tradint.io](https://tradint.io/)
Using TRADINT intelligence, they have gathered the best resources, and created tools to make locating trade information simple.
- [52WMB](https://en.52wmb.com/)
International trade data service platform that provides customs data, a buyer and supplier directory, B/L, industry reports, and more. Requires registration.
An investigative data platform that helps reporters follow the money. They provide public access to a vast archive of government records and open databases. OCCRP also grants access to journalists and activists on a case by case basis.
- [Candid 990 Form Search](https://candid.org/research-and-verify-nonprofits/990-finder)
A database of individual 990 forms of private foundations, public charities, and other non-profits.
- [Open990](https://www.open990.org/org/)
Similar to the above, allows you to find 990 forms for non-profit organizations.
Contains information about Bitcoin (BTC), Bitcoin Cash (BCH) and Ethereum (ETH) including historical prices, most recently mined blocks, the mempool size of unconfirmed transactions, and data for the latest transactions.
- [Blockchair](https://blockchair.com/)
Universal blockchain explorer and search engine BTC, ETH, XRP, XLM, BCH, LTC, DASH, BSV, DOGE, GRS and much more that allow you to find, sort and filter transactions and addresses.
- [CryptoHound](https://www.c-hound.ai/)
A tool for blockchain analysis and BTC or ETH address lookup. Track address activity, transaction history, address relations, and other metrics.
An online blockchain browser which displays the contents of individual Bitcoin blocks and transactions and the transaction histories and balances of BTC addresses.
An open source block explorer providing detailed blockchain data across Bitcoin, Testnet, and Liquid.
- [BitcoinWhosWho](https://bitcoinwhoswho.com/)
Provides plenty of useful tools for the Bitcoin network. Allows you to explore the blockchain, check if a BTC address has been reported as a scam, discover owners of BTC addresses, setup transaction alerts to notify you when a target BTC address has activity on the blockchain and more.
Preforms address clustering. Find out if addresses belong to the same user, or in rare cases, identify what mixer was used.
- [BitRef](https://bitref.com/)
A simple tool to display a Bitcoin addresses current balance.
### **Ethereum (ETH) Specific**
- [Etherscan](https://etherscan.io/)
View data regarding any pending or confirmed Ethereum blockchain transactions.
### **Monero (XMR) Specific**
- [Monero Blocks](https://localmonero.co/blocks)
Monero blockhain explorer. Search by block height, block hash, transaction hash or payment ID.
- [XMRChain](https://xmrchain.net/)
Allows you to explore Monero data.
### **Dogecoin (DOGE) Specific**
- [DogeChain](https://dogechain.info/)
The official Dogecoin blockchain explorer. View wallet balances and transactions on the DOGE blockchain.
## **Investments and Stocks**
- [BrokerChecker](https://brokercheck.finra.org/)
A free tool from FINRA that can help you research the professional backgrounds of brokers and brokerage firms, as well as investment adviser firms and advisers.
Conduct a search for FINRA disciplinary actions that were issued 2005 or later, and are eligible for publication pursuant to [FINRA Rule 8313](https://www.finra.org/rules-guidance/rulebooks/finra-rules/8313) ([Wayback](https://web.archive.org/web/20211026005046/https://www.finra.org/rules-guidance/rulebooks/finra-rules/8313)), ([archive.today](https://archive.md/sHQYW)). Results will also include opinions issued by the SEC and federal appellate courts that relate to FINRA disciplinary actions that have been appealed.
Ranks jurisdictions according to their secrecy and the scale of their offshore financial activities. A politically neutral ranking, it is a tool for understanding global financial secrecy, tax havens or secrecy jurisdictions, and illicit financial flows or capital flight.
- [Enigma](https://enigma.com/)
Offers tools for small businesses operating in the United States such as real-time revenue insights, risk assessments, merchant transactions, marketing tools and a small business directory. Requires a paid subscription.
## **Banking**
- [Wikipedia - Lists of Banks](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lists_of_banks) ([WikiLess](https://wikiless.org/wiki/Lists_of_banks))
A worldwide directory of banks and financial institutions from Wikipedia.
Locate current and former FDIC insured banking institutions by name, FDIC certificate number, website or location. It also allows you to follow the history and financial trends of an individual institution, group of institutions, or the industry as a whole.
- [ABA Routing Number Lookup](https://routingnumber.aba.com/Default1.aspx)
Allows for single lookups of financial institution routing numbers. Users of this service are allowed no more than two lookups per day and are limited to ten lookups per month.
- [Country AML Reports](https://www.knowyourcountry.com/copy-of-country-reports)
A large directory of anti-money laundering (AML) reports. Organized by country.
Here you can validate, verify and check a credit card or debit card number.
- [BIN List](https://binlist.net/)
BIN list is a public web service for looking up credit and debit card metadata. They also provide a free API.
## **Physical Currency**
- [Wikipedia - List of Circulating Currencies](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_circulating_currencies) ([WikiLess](https://wikiless.org/wiki/List_of_circulating_currencies))
A Wikipedia page that lists all physical currency that is currently in worldwide circulation. Organized by country.
- [World Currency Codes and Symbols](https://www.currencyremitapp.com/world-currency-symbols/)
A list of currencies, currency codes and symbols that are used by each country in the world.
<u>**Vehicle and Transportation Intelligence [VATINT]**</u>
An amazing tool that allows you to simply upload an image of a vehicle, and its AI will identify the make, model and year of that vehicle. Claims to have a 97% accuracy.
A catalog of license plates from around the world. Organized by country, province and state. Includes a wealth of information regarding license plates.
- [PlatesMania](https://platesmania.com/)
A large collection of license plate images from around the world.
Another large collection of license plate pictures from across the world created by Jeroen Coninx.
- [€uroplates](https://www.europlates.eu/)
Collection of license plate pictures from EU countries and a few other near by countries.
- [How's My Driving NYC](https://www.howsmydrivingny.nyc/)
Allows you to search for traffic and parking violations via license plate number in New York City.
- [Deciphering Number Plates](https://www.skoda-storyboard.com/en/series/deciphering-number-plates/)
Contains a few great guides on how to decipher license plates from various different countries.
- [[IMAGE] Map of License Plates in Europe](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/bb/Vehicle_registration_plates_in_Europe.png)
A simple map that shows examples of the different plates for each country in Europe. Archived copies available [here (Wayback)](https://web.archive.org/web/20210927044105/https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/bb/Vehicle_registration_plates_in_Europe.png) and [here (archive.today)](https://archive.ph/Qahid).
## **Marine**
### **Vessel Tracking**
- [MarineTraffic](https://www.marinetraffic.com)
Discover information and vessel positions for vessels around the world.
- [FleetMon](https://www.fleetmon.com/)
Maritime traffic on a live map. Past, current and future ship positions for almost every vessel in the world. Plus port information and APIs.
- [ShipAIS UK](http://shipais.uk/)
Live information about vessels in and around the British coastline.
- [VesselFinder](https://www.vesselfinder.com/)
A free AIS vessel tracking web site. VesselFinder displays real time ship positions and marine traffic detected by global AIS network.
Another website to track any ship’s live location by simply searching the ship’s name. This website shows complete details about the ship like latitude and longitude, destination port, speed, and estimated time to reach their destination.
- [BoatNerd](https://ais.boatnerd.com/)
This application shows the vessel name, when we click on the vessel name on the map it shows details like screen location, ship type, position, destination, estimated time (ETA), speed, dimensions, and status.
A website to add tourism information for sailors, this application build in the year 2009. Around 1 million people worldwide collected and stored in the database.
An open-source website to track any vessel in real-time. Allows you to view different ships, ports, location with photos. You can also view the port names with country name and the number of ships available.
The world’s largest database of private luxury yachts, with over 12,000 mega yachts listed. It’s the most authoritative place to find everything you need to know about superyachts. Including new builds, historic vessels and the most famous boats of all time.
- [SailboatData](https://sailboatdata.com/)
A searchable database that contains information on over 8400 production and semi-production sailboats dating back to 1900.
- [[PDF] Anatomy of a Ship](https://nmssanctuaries.blob.core.windows.net/sanctuaries-prod/media/archive/education/pdfs/shipparts.pdf)
A document that details the different parts of a vessel. Archived copies can be found [here (Wayback)](https://web.archive.org/web/20210903061140/https://nmssanctuaries.blob.core.windows.net/sanctuaries-prod/media/archive/education/pdfs/shipparts.pdf) and [here (archive.today)](https://archive.ph/AZksT).
A searchable database that provides various information regarding cargo containers such as dimensions, owner information, suppliers, manufacturers, tracking, specifications and more.
- [Prefixlist ISO Codes](https://www.prefixlist.com/codes/iso-codes/)
A database of codes for the ISO Alpha codes for containers.
Displays live air traffic tracking maps, airport arrivals and departures, airline fleet monitoring in real-time, history data and flights replay for the last 7 days.
Live flight tracking, searchable by registration details.
- [AirNav RadarBox](https://www.radarbox.com/)
A tracking portal for real-time tracking updates. Flight position data is relayed by over 12 different data aggregating sources, including ADS-B, FAA SWIM, MLAT, ADS-C and Oceanic Reports, to give second-by-second position updates along an aircraft's journey.
- [GliderTracker](https://glidertracker.org/)
Live European glider and other flight tracking data.
A map and database of airport information from around the world. Provides plenty of useful information and links, they also provide free downloadable datasets in various file formats that is updated daily.
Find information for flights such as arrivals, departures, delays, cancellations, hotel reservation, weather and airport access. Schedule updated in real time.
- [SkyVector](https://skyvector.com/airports)
Provides navigation details for airports, aeronautical charts and other information such as fuel prices.
- [AirportData](https://www.airportdata.com/)
A database of worldwide airports, searchable by name. Requires registration.
An independent US federal agency that provides access to a national rail network map as well as localized maps that allow for layering and saving your own images.
- [US FRA Safety Map](https://fragis.fra.dot.gov/GISFRASafety/)
The Federal Railroad Administration provides an interactive map that shows class I, passenger, commuter and Amtrak railroads with multiple map layers that show freight station, grade crossing and mileposts.
- [Track A Train](https://www.amtrak.com/track-your-train.html)
Provides detailed GPS information for Amtrak trains in the US. Information includes arrival and departure times, current speeds. Searchable by train name, number or station.
This website provides nine different interactive railroad maps for the US and Canada. Also provides information regarding fleets, interchanges, maintenance equipment and buildings.
- [Amtrak Status Map Archive](https://juckins.net/amtrak_status/archive/html/history.php)
A searchable database of historical train schedules for stations for a particular day. Data dates back to 2008.
- [TRAVIC](https://tracker.geops.ch)
Transit visualization client allows you to see real-time movements of trains, trams, subways, busses, ferries and more from major cities across the globe.
Contains over 400 live video feeds of worldwide railways.
### **Other Information**
- [European Train Station Floorplans](https://www.nsinternational.com/en/stations/station-maps-floor-plan)
A database of floorplans for train stations across Europe.
- [TrainOrders](https://www.trainorders.com/)
A forum and media sharing platform for train enthusiasts that includes a wealth of information and images for US, Canadian, European and many other nations.
An API which allows you to search for WHOIS records by company name, owner name or keyword. Currently has over 430 million records dating as far back as 1986. Requires registration.
- [Whoisology](https://whoisology.com/)
Search for WHOIS records and other data via domain name, email address or keyword. For enhanced results, a paid subscription is required.
- [DomainBigData](https://domainbigdata.com/)
Find the registrant and other domains owned by the same person with their reverse WHOIS. Find domain history, domains on same IP, network owner and more.
A great online tool for locating information about a website or IP address. Offers WHOIS lookups, DNS records, IP tools, and other website enumeration tools. Created by [@netbootcamp](https://twitter.com/netbootcamp), so be sure to follow them for updates.
Search an IPv4 or IPv6 address and view the most recent torrents that have been downloaded or that the user is currently seeding.
- [AbuseIPDB](https://www.abuseipdb.com/)
A database of abuse reports. Search an IP address and see if it has been included in any abuse reports, malicious activity reports, and spam campaigns.
- [Hurricane Electric BGP Toolkit](https://bgp.he.net/)
Contains loads of great networking tools.
- [InfoSniper](https://www.infosniper.net/)
Provides detailed IP geo-location information.
- [IP Hub](https://iphub.info/)
An IP lookup tool featuring proxy and VPN detection. A free API is also available. Requires a paid subscription for best results.
A collection of fraud detection tools including proxy and VPN detection, bot detection, email validation, and lots of other tools. Offers many free tools. Requires a paid subscription to be able to use everything.
- [IP Teoh](https://ip.teoh.io/)
Simple tool that provides basic information about an IP address. Geo-location, ISP, and proxy/VPN/TOR node detection.
- [CentralOps](https://centralops.net/co/)
A great collection of various networking tools. Ping, traceroute, WHOIS, nslookup, domain dossier and so on.
## **Domain Name System (DNS) Records**
- [PTArchive](http://ptrarchive.com/)
Search for historical reverse DNS records. Currently has over 230 billion records retrieved from 2008 to now.
- [PassiveDNS](https://passivedns.mnemonic.no/)
Search for DNS records via domain name.
- [IntoDNS](https://intodns.com/)
Checks the health and configuration of DNS and mail servers.
- [ViewDNS Info](http://viewdns.info/)
Allows users to gather a large amount of data about a given website or IP address.
## **Website Analysis**
### **Enumeration**
- [Wappalyzer](https://www.wappalyzer.com/)
Discover what software versions are running on any website.
List the websites that use a particular technology, with email addresses and phone numbers. Use this to find new leads, market analysis and competitor research.
- [AnalyzeID](https://analyzeid.com/)
Helps locate websites that have the same owner. Checks for matching email, Facebook app ID and nameservers. Search by URL.
- [Pulsedive](https://pulsedive.com/)
Enter a URL and receive information such as threat intelligence reports, port scans, IP details, additional URLs, subdomains and other IOCs.
- [MMHDAN](https://mmhdan.herokuapp.com/)
Calculate a fingerprint of a website. Things like HTML, Favicon, Certificates in SHA1, SHA256, MD5 and MMH3. Lets you create links to quickly search in various IoT search engines.
Lookup a browser user-agent and view details about it such as software versions, OS types, and more.
## **Internet of Things (IoT) Search**
### **Device Discovery**
- [WiGLE](https://wigle.net/)
The Wireless Geographic Logging Engine is a website for collecting crowd-sourced wardriving information about the different wireless networks and cell towers around the world. Users can register on the website and upload hotspot data like GPS coordinates, SSID, MAC address and the encryption type used on the hotspots discovered. Great way to get an address from a WiFi SSID.
- [Shodan](https://www.shodan.io/)
A search engine that lets the user find specific types of computers and IoT devices connected to the internet using a variety of filters.
- [Censys](https://censys.io/)
The search engine for finding internet devices, like computers, servers, and other smart devices.
- [ZoomEye](https://www.zoomeye.org/)
Another search engine which is used mostly to see open devices that are vulnerable and most often used by pentesters to test or exploit their vulnerabilities over the internet. Zoomeye lets user find specific connected network devices.
- [Thingful](https://www.thingful.net/)
A search engine for the internet of things (IoT), providing a unique geographical index of connected objects around the world, including energy, radiation, weather, and air quality devices as well as seismographs, iBeacons, ships, aircraft and even animal trackers.
- [GreyNoise](https://www.greynoise.io/)
Collects, analyzes, and labels mass internet scan and attack activity into a feed of Anti-Threat Intelligence (ATI).
- [Natlas](https://natlas.io/)
This is described as a "collection of nmaps". Catalogs things like open ports and software versions.
- [ONYPHE](https://www.onyphe.io/)
A cyber defense search engine for open-source and cyber threat intelligence data. Collected by crawling various sources available on the Internet and active internet scanning.
- [FOFA](https://fofa.so/)
FOFA is a cyberspace search engine. It help customers find IP assets quickly.
Essentially a clone of Shodan.
- [LeakIX](https://leakix.net/)
Search engine indexing open ports on the internet. It focuses on listing the databases and table names and keeps an history of every successful connection.
- [BinaryEdge](https://app.binaryedge.io/)
Focuses on acquiring, analyzing and classifying internet wide data by combining efforts in the areas of cybersecurity, data science and machine learning. Requires registration.
### **CCTV and Webcams**
- [EarthCam](https://www.earthcam.com/)
A searchable global network of live streaming webcam feeds.
- [WebCamTaxi](https://www.webcamtaxi.com/en/)
Directory of open webcams organized by country and location.
- [OpenTopia](http://www.opentopia.com/)
Catalogues live webcams that have been found via search engines. Allows you to view camera feeds plotted on a map.
- [Insecam](http://insecam.org/)
Live cameras directory. Claims to be the world's biggest directory of online surveillance security camera feeds. Searchable by location or camera manufacturer.
- [London Traffic Cams 30 Day Archive](https://archive.tfljamcams.net/)
A 30-day archive of traffic camera footage from London, England.
- [Fisgonia](http://www.fisgonia.com/)
Directory of open IP cameras plotted on a map. Website is in Spanish.
- [List of Unsecured IP Cameras](https://reolink.com/unsecured-ip-camera-list/)
A great article that describes the most common types of IP cameras that are exposed online. Also provides a list of default credentials for common IP cameras.
- [CamVista](http://www.camvista.com/)
A directory of open IP cameras. Appears to be outdated, but still worth mentioning.
A great tool that lists open AWS S3 buckets and helps you search for interesting files. Requires registration for limited free use. Requires a paid subscription to access advanced features.
## **Exploits and PoC**
- [ExploitDB](https://www.exploit-db.com/)
An archive of exploits, vulnerabilities, shellcode, 0days, security articles, whitepapers and more. Ran by Offensive Security.
The Google Hacking Data Base is an index of search queries (we call them dorks) used to find publicly available information, intended for pentesters and security researchers.
The mission of the CVE program is to identify, define, and catalog publicly disclosed cyber-security vulnerabilities.
- [NIST NVD](https://nvd.nist.gov/)
The U.S. government repository of standards based vulnerability management data represented using the Security Content Automation Protocol (SCAP). Enables automation of vulnerability management, security measurement, and compliance. The NVD includes databases of security checklist references, security-related software flaws, misconfigurations, product names, and impact metrics.
- [CVE Details](https://www.cvedetails.com/)
You can browse for vendors, products and versions and view CVE entries, vulnerabilities, related to them. You can view statistics about vendors, products and versions of products. Vulnerability data is updated daily using NVD feeds.
- [VulDB](https://vuldb.com/)
A vulnerability database documenting and explaining security vulnerabilities, threats, and exploits since 1970.
## **Personal Connection Profiling**
- [GRC SheildsUP](https://www.grc.com/shieldsup)
Great tool for profiling your internet connection and router for exposure, potential vulnerabilities, and open ports. These are the results you want to see; [[IMAGE] SheildsUP TruStealth](https://i.imgur.com/R9w11GS_d.jpg?maxwidth=640&shape=full&fidelity=large), [(Wayback)](https://web.archive.org/web/20211020070418/https://i.imgur.com/R9w11GS_d.jpg?maxwidth=640&shape=full&fidelity=large), [(archive.today)](https://archive.ph/tjzKa).
- [IPLeak](https://ipleak.net/)
See what information you are giving away while browsing the internet. IP addresses, DNS leaks, WebRTC leaks, fingerprints and user-agent.
- [BrowserLeaks](https://browserleaks.com/)
Here you will find a gallery of security testing tools that will show you what kind of personal data can be leaked, and how to protect yourself from it.
- [DNS Leak Test](https://dnsleaktest.com/)
A simple tool to check for DNS leakage.
## **Other Tools**
- [Domains-Index](https://domains-index.com/)
An index of registered domains, sorted by TLD. Allows you to download lists of registered TLDs in .csv format. Requires registration and a paid subscription. However, some TLD lists are free.
- [ZoneFiles](https://zonefiles.io/)
Another index of registered domains sorted by TLDs. Updated daily. Requires paid subscription and registration to access their datasets.
- [Zone-H](https://www.zone-h.org/)
An Internet security portal containing original IT security news, digital warfare news, geopolitics, proprietary and general advisories, analyses, forums, and a large archive of website defacements.
Allows you to view a website in a different browser online. For example, a Mac user can test a website to see how it acts in Internet Explorer, without having to install a VM.
The largest radio communications data provider. Has a complete frequency database, trunked radio system information and FCC license data. Requires registration.
- [American Archive of Public Broadcasting](https://americanarchive.org/)
Discover, listen and watch historic radio and television broadcasts from across the USA.
- [GlobalTuners](https://www.globaltuners.com/)
Provides access to remotely controlled radio receivers all over the world. You can tune the receivers to listen to remote radio broadcasts, air traffic, amateur transmissions and much more.
On this page you can listen to and control a short-wave receiver located at the amateur radio club at the University of Twente. This receiver can be tuned by multiple users simultaneously.
- [Digital Frequency Search](https://digitalfrequencysearch.com/index.php)
Helps find, scan, and identify digital radio frequencies in a specific area. All searches are by county and state. Data is provided from the FCC.
A tool that allows you to search various frequency databases. Requires a paid subscription.
- [Default Frequencies for Motorola Business Radios](https://www.buytwowayradios.com/blog/2015/05/default_frequencies_for_motorola_business_radios.html)
A list of Motorola business radios with their channel numbers and the default frequencies assigned to them out of the box.
Allows you to search for amateur radio operators by callsign, name or FRN. Search results can provide a persons full name, callsign, addresses and in some cases, felony records.
- [Canadian Amateur Radio Operator Search](https://apc-cap.ic.gc.ca/pls/apc_anon/query_amat_cs$.startup)
A database where you can search Canadians who are licensed amateur radio operators. Search by callsign, last name, city, province or postal code.
Enter an IP address and date to find out whether that address was used as a Tor relay.
- [TorWHOIS](https://torwhois.com/)
Look up an .onion address and see basic information such as date last seen, open ports, running software and banners. You can also query specific onions from the command line: `whois -h torwhois.com facebookcorewwwi.onion`
A search engine for the deep web. Official onion site can be found [here](http://3bbad7fauom4d6sgppalyqddsqbf5u5p56b5k5uk2zxsy3d6ey2jobad.onion/).
- [Dargle](https://www.dargle.net/search)
A data aggregation platform for dark web domains. Using this directory, we can generate a portfolio of domains and their statuses, gain insight into the content and nature of these services, as well as the connections between them.
- [OSINT Party Fresh Onion RSS](https://osint.party/api/rss/fresh)
An amazing RSS feed of fresh and newly discovered .onion sites. Be careful, this feed remains uncensored, so you may encounter illegal content.
A large and neatly organized directory of .onion sites. You can visit this site without TOR [here (CLEARNET PROXY)](https://zqktlwiuavvvqqt4ybvgvi7tyo4hjl5xgfuvpdf6otjiycgwqbym2qad.onion.pet/wiki/index.php/Main_Page).
Place with fresh links to TOR services hidden that is free of spam and scam sites. Only trusted and safe links are provided.
- [Hunchly Daily Dark Web Report](https://www.hunch.ly/darkweb-osint/)
Identify new hidden services, or find investigation targets that you might not have otherwise known about. It is 100% free and every day you will receive a link to a spreadsheet you can download or view online. Requires you to provide an email address to join their mailing list.
Another onion site that offers a list of fresh onions. Beware, results are often uncensored so you may encounter illegal material.
- [DarkSearch](https://darksearch.io/)
A search engine for TOR onion sites. Claims to index thousands of onions. Offers the ability to use [advanced search operators](https://darksearch.io/dorks), and they also provide a free API. Appears to be a bit outdated though.
Specific market & vendor sale of goods engine. Currently indexing over 876,601 forum posts, 106,558 listings, 6,313 vendors, and 1,443,739 reviews from 12 markets and 5 forums.
The buyer’s DNM bible aims to be a complete guide that covers all steps that users have to take in order to buy securely from darknet markets. It orientates itself on OPSEC best practices and, if exactly followed, will greatly minimize the risk of you getting caught. They also offer an offline version of this guide, available [here (CLEARNET PROXY)](http://biblemeowimkh3utujmhm6oh2oeb3ubjw2lpgeq3lahrfr2l6ev6zgyd.onion.pet/bible.zip) and [here (Wayback)](https://archive.org/details/darknet-market-buyers-bible).
- [Dropgangs - The Future of Darknet Markets](https://opaque.link/post/dropgang/)
An excellent article from 2018 about the evolution and the future of darknet market places. Available as a [PDF](https://opaque.link/files/dropgang.pdf). Archived [here (Wayback)](https://web.archive.org/web/20210928214248/https://opaque.link/files/dropgang.pdf) and [here (archive.today)](https://archive.ph/Fn5ik).
A site for researchers that keeps track and provides links to various ransomware group darknet sites.
- [Ransomware Group Sites](http://ransomwr3tsydeii4q43vazm7wofla5ujdajquitomtd47cxjtfgwyyd.onion/)
An onion site that provides links and details about ransomware groups currently operating. Clearnet proxy provided [here (CLEARNET PROXY)](http://ransomwr3tsydeii4q43vazm7wofla5ujdajquitomtd47cxjtfgwyyd.onion.pet/).
Arguably one of the best search tools for people out there. Provides a massive amount of tools and resources to search people by name, address, phone number and so on. They also provide loads of other useful tools and resources including maps, federal data, property records and more.
- [SocialCatfish](https://socialcatfish.com/)
Find connections and verify a person's online identity using a name, image, email address, phone number, username or physical address.
- [Verecor](https://verecor.com/)
Generic people search site for U.S. citizens.
- [uFind Name](https://ufind.name/)
Search for a persons name and see matching results including LinkedIn and Facebook accounts, whitepage results, vehicle registration database entries, marketing data and more.
- [Pipl](https://pipl.com/)
One very great tool for locating people by name, address, email address, username and so on. Once offered as a free service many moons ago, now requires a paid subscription.
- [Phonebooks](https://www.phonebooks.com/)
A free international people search, telephone directory and address search.
## **Genealogy**
- [Ancestry](https://www.ancestry.com/)
The world's largest collection of online family history records and genealogy records. Requires a paid subscription.
Search for ancestors and relatives in published family trees. Also allows you to publish yourself to find matches in other family trees. (*Please do not actually do that*).
Search for family ancestors, family history and family trees. Requires registration.
- [US National Archives Resources for Genealogists](https://www.archives.gov/research/genealogy)
Provides a wealth of resources related to genealogy for people in the U.S.
- [Archives Canada Genealogy and Family History](https://www.bac-lac.gc.ca/eng/discover/genealogy/Pages/introduction.aspx)
Access the Canadian ancestry and genealogy records and discover a wealth of information for people in Canada.
- [CubaGenWeb](https://www.cubagenweb.org/)
An on-line bi-lingual depository of resources and data dedicated to Cuban Genealogy. It is intended to facilitate the search for Cuban roots by providing as much information as possible to get you started in your research and help fill in some of the missing blanks.
## **Court Records**
- [JudyRecords](https://www.judyrecords.com/)
Search over 580 million United States court cases.
- [CaseLaw Access Project](https://case.law/)
A free tool that allows you to search over 1.7 million U.S. federal cases and over 4.9 million state cases.
- [CourtListener](https://www.courtlistener.com/)
Search over 4 million U.S federal and state cases and opinions in over 400 different jurisdictions.
- [CourtRecord](https://www.courtrecord.net/)
Search complete and up-to-date public court records in the U.S.
- [DocketAlarm](https://www.docketalarm.com/)
A searchable database with over 91 million state cases. Over 19 million specialized agency cases such as patent, trademark, tax, international trade, etc.
A list of convicted sex offenders in the UK. As the UK sex offender registry is not available to the public, the names listed are pulled from various news articles and sources.
Search for U.S. prisoners by BOP register, DCDC, FBI, INS number or by name. Contains information about federal inmates incarcerated from 1982 to the present.
- [JailBase](https://www.jailbase.com/search/)
Search for U.S. inmates by name. Also provides a generic people search tool.
Enter an email address and see which sites the email address has been used. This is a web frontend of the [holehe](https://github.com/megadose/holehe) tool.
Simple tool that analyzes email headers and making them human-readable.
## **Data Breach Search**
- [HaveIBeenPwned](https://haveibeenpwned.com/)
Lets you search for an email address of phone number. Will tell you what breaches include what you have searched.
- [BreachDirectory](https://breachdirectory.org/)
Search via email address, username or phone number to see censored passwords. They also provide the full password as a SHA-1 hash, which can easily be cracked.
- [DeHashed](https://dehashed.com/)
Is the largest & fastest data breach search engine. You can search for IP address, email, username, name, phone, address and more. Requires a paid subscription.
- [IntelX](https://intelx.io/)
Allows you to search through breach data for email address and more. Requires a paid subscription to view full results.
- [MyPWD](https://mypwd.io/)
A tool for monitoring leaked passwords for accounts linked to emails. Actually shows you the leaked passwords.
- [Leaked Site](https://leaked.site/)
Another leaked database search. Requires a paid subscription.
- [WeLeakInfo](https://weleakinfo.to/)
Provides you the best leaked breached databases downloads. Requires a paid subscription.
- [LeakPeek](https://leakpeek.com/)
An all-in-one online data protection platform. Search for your publicly leaked passwords using an email or username. Shows you censored results. Requires a paid subscription to view uncensored results.
- [LeakedSource](https://leakedsource.ru/)
Search for leaked data by email address, name , username, phone number, IP address or password. Requires a paid subscription.
- [LeakCheck](https://checkleaked.cc/)
Check your account for leaks. Requires a paid subscription for best results.
- [HotSheet](https://www.hotsheet.com/inoitsu)
Use this free service to check if an email address is in any hacked data from known breaches. Get a summary of what specific information may be at risk. Essentially a clone of HaveIBeenPwned.
- [Leak-Lookup](https://leak-lookup.com/)
Allows you to search across thousands of data breaches to stay on top of credentials that may have been compromised. Requires a paid subscription.
- [Am I Breached](https://amibreached.com/)
Lets you search for name, email, IP, phone number, username, credit card numbers, VIN and more. Requires a paid subscription.
Snusbase makes it easy to stay on top of the latest database breaches and makes sure you and your closest stay safe online. Requires a paid subscription.
- [Personal Data Leak Checker](https://cybernews.com/personal-data-leak-check/)
Find out if your email or phone number and related personal information could get into the wrong hands.
Use this tool to check if your email address has been compromised in any known data breaches.
- [Ashley Madison Search](https://ashley.cynic.al/)
Check to see if an email address was included in the Ashley Madison breach.
- [PwnDB Onion](https://pwndb2am4tzkvold.onion/)
A .onion site that allows you search an email address and provides you with free uncensored results. You can visit this site without TOR [here (CLEARNET PROXY)](http://pwndb2am4tzkvold.onion.pet/).
- [Leaked.Domains](https://leaked.domains/)
Contains a large number of breached datasets to perform passive intelligence gathering on domains. Allows you to search a domain name and see how many times the domain has been included in breached data. Requires registration with a company email to access full reports for that specific domain.
Search via phone number or name and see information about the owner. Requires a paid subscription.
- [Cellulaire](http://www.cellulaire411.ca/en)
A reverse phone number lookup tool that utilizes public records to help identify the owner of a specific phone number. Appears to not have that much data.
- [800notes](https://800notes.com/)
A crowd-sourced reverse phone number search. Good for identifying scammer numbers.
- [FoneFinder](http://fonefinder.net/)
Allows you to enter any phone number and see the type of number, the location where it was assigned, the cell carrier and a few other details.
A directory of payphones still in operation in Canada, U.S., UK and other countries.
- [Country Codes](https://countrycode.org/)
This calling chart will help you find the dialing codes you need to make calls around the globe. Simply find and click the country you wish to call.
- [Wikipedia - List of Country Dialing Codes](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_country_calling_codes) ([WikiLess](https://wikiless.org/wiki/List_of_country_calling_codes))
Similar to the above, this is a big list of dialing codes for each different country.
A very well organized directory of phone number directories from around the world, organized by country. Click [here](https://om-1881-no.translate.goog/nyttige-sider/kataloger-i-utlandet?_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en-GB&_x_tr_pto=nui) for a Norwegian to English translation.
- [InfoBel](https://www.infobel.com/)
A large directory of white and yellow pages for over 60 different countries around the world.
- [AllPages](https://www.allpages.com/)
Yellow page directory that provides business listings for all business categories in Canada and the U.S.
- [SuperPages](https://www.superpages.com/)
Yellow pages for Canada and the U.S. Find and connect with local plumbers, handymen, mechanics, attorneys, dentists, and more.
- [World White Pages](https://whitepages.fr/global/)
A decent directory of links to white pages for specific countries.
A large directory of links to both white and yellow pages for different countries around the world.
- [GetHuman](https://gethuman.com/)
Web service designed to help people get assistance quickly by providing a directory or support numbers and contact emails. Simply enter the name of the company you wish to reach and view ways to contact their support teams. GetHuman generally only deals with large, national, or international firms.
## **Country Specific White Pages**
### **Asia**
- **Afghanistan**
- [Afghanistan White Pages](https://whitepages.af/)
White page directory for Afghanistan.
- **Cambodia**
- **China**
- **Hong Kong**
- **India**
- **Israel**
- **Japan**
- **Kazakhstan**
- **Kyrgyzstan**
- **Malaysia**
- **Mongolia**
- **Pakistan**
- **Russia**
- **Singapore**
- **Sri Lanka**
- [RainbowPages](https://rainbowpages.lk/)
Sri Lanka’s only telephone directory.
- **Taiwan**
- [White Pages Taiwan](https://whitepages.tw/)
Find people or companies in Taiwan. Uses a Google custom search.
Yellow pages for Bangladesh, allows you to search for businesses and services.
- [Address Bazar](https://www.addressbazar.com/)
An online yellow pages for Bangladesh.
- [Bangladesh Business Directory](https://bangladeshbusinessdir.com/)
An online business directory and company guide for Bangladesh.
- [BDquery](http://www.bdquery.com/)
One of the largest local business directories in Bangladesh.
- **China**
- [Yellow Pages Macau](https://yp.mo/)
Online yellow pages for Macau, China.
- **Cambodia**
- [Yellow Pages Cambodia](https://www.yp.com.kh/)
The online edition of this business directory. You can use this site to find up to date listings with contact information, profile, advertisement, email and web URLs.
- **Iraq**
- [Iraq Directory](http://www.iraqdirectory.com/)
An Iraqi business directory.
- **Iran**
- [IranPage](https://www.iranpage.com/)
Known as the first online directory of Iranian professionals and Iranian owned and operated businesses worldwide.
- **India**
- [Yellow Pages India](http://yellowpages.in/)
Yellow pages business directory for India.
- [IndiaCatalog](http://indiacatalog.com/)
A web directory of top Indian companies where you can find products, services, addresses, phone numbers and email details of top Indian companies.
Social media username checker. Gather information on the taken username and get a summary of who the person is.
- [IDCrawl](https://www.idcrawl.com/)
A free people search engine that organizes social network information, deep web information, phone numbers, email addresses and more.
- [UserSearch](https://usersearch.org/index.php)
Search by username or email to find anyone using this free social network reverse lookup tool. Lookup profiles on social media and dating sites.
- [UserHunt](https://userhunt.co/)
A username search engine that goes to all the social, tech and creative sites to check if a username is taken or is available.
- [InstantUsername](https://instantusername.com/)
Checks more than 100 social media sites and let you know if a username is available there.
- [PeekYou](https://peekyou.com/username)
Username search enables you to locate a person by their online alias, wherever they can be found on the web. Uncover the social pages, images, and weblinks associated with millions of usernames.
- [SearchPOF](https://searchpof.com/)
Lets you search via username on PlentyOfFish, Instagram, Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, Pinterest, YouTube, SnapChat and more. Requires login in order to search POF accounts.
- [CheckUsernames](https://checkusernames.com/)
Check and see if a username is in use across about 60 different social networks.
- [KnowEm](https://knowem.com/)
Allows you to check for a username or real name instantly on over 500 popular and emerging social media sites.
- [CheckUser](https://checkuser.org/)
Check username on all popular social networks Including Instagram YouTube Facebook Twitch and more.
- [ClaimBrand](http://claimbrand.com/)
Search over 1000 popular social networks for usernames.
A service where you can easily find information on Steam profiles. Simply enter a user’s Steam ID or profile URL and you will be shown historical information such as the user’s previously used avatars, aliases, historic friends and game information.
- [SteamSpy](https://steamspy.com/)
Gathers data from Steam user profiles, analyzes it and presents it in a neatly organized fashion.
- [SteamDB](https://steamdb.info/calculator/)
Shows how much money a user has spent on Steam games.
- [SteamRep](https://steamrep.com/)
A tool to search a Steam account to see any reports of scamming related to that account.
- [STEAMID/IO](https://steamid.io/)
Convert Steam IDs, Steam ID64s, Steam ID3s, Custom URLs and find Steam Community profiles.
- [Steam ID Finder](https://www.steamidfinder.com/)
Similar to the above. Allows you to covert SteamIDs and find the associated account.
A tool that helps you filter the best Steam games by genre, tags, keywords and more. With Steam games sales tracking and updated guides for every Steam game.
## **Xbox Live and PlayStation Network**
- [XboxGamertag](https://xboxgamertag.com)
Lookup a Xbox Live gamertag and see information about their profile including name, gamerscore, achievements, profile picture, avatar, bio and more. Works for both Xbox 360 and Xbox One accounts.
- [Tracker.gg](https://tracker.gg/)
Enter a Xbox gamertag, PSN name or user ID to find player stats for a large variety of games.
- [PSNProfiles](https://psnprofiles.com/)
Look up a PSN username and view that players stats, profile picture, recently played games and trophies.
Displays detailed statistics for Minecraft players. You can find the players by nickname or UUID. See which servers they played in, how much time they spent on each server, when they last played, how many hours a day they play, with whom last played and more.
- [MinecraftUUID](https://minecraftuuid.com/)
View a players UUID and name change history. Also good for checking if a username exists.
- [NameMC](https://namemc.com/)
Check the availability of Minecraft names, look up the name history of Minecraft accounts, view Minecraft skins in 3D, convert UUIDs, and much more.
Search for an address and receive a wealth of information regarding that property. Such as images, size, features, price and tax history, floorplans and more.
- [Homemetry](https://homemetry.com/)
Provides information about almost every property in the U.S. Each listing contains all property related records including home values, sales history, taxes, size, structure characteristics, neighborhood information, local organizations, and other valuable information.
- [OfficeSpace](https://www.officespace.com/)
An online search engine that connects tenants and brokers in the U.S commercial real estate marketplace. Requires registration.
- [Arivify](https://www.arivify.com/)
Allows you to search for public property records for addresses in the U.S.
- [Emporis](https://www.emporis.com/)
Provides information about skyscrapers and high-rise buildings. They also provide an [interactive map](https://www.emporis.com/buildings/map#c=57.956477,-16.97009&z=0).
- [DataTree](https://dna.firstam.com/)
Great resource and toolkit for finding real estate information and records. Requires a paid subscription.
- [UCSF Industry Documents](https://industrydocuments.ucsf.edu/)
Massive digital archive of documents created by industries which influence public health, such as the tobacco, chemical, drug and fossil fuel industries.
- [LuminDatabase](https://www.lumendatabase.org/)
A searchable database that collects and analyzes legal complaints and requests for removal of online materials (DMCA take-downs), helping Internet users to know their rights and understand the law.
- [National Center for Biotechnology Information](https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/)
Allows you to search 39 different scientific databases such as Pubmed, SRA, OMIN, MedGen and more from a single page.
Large archive of sociological surveys conducted in the Arab countries of Africa and the Middle East from 2007 to 2021.
- [CensoredPlanet](https://censoredplanet.org/)
A censorship measurement platform that collects data using multiple remote measurement techniques in more than 200 countries. Provides reports and offers their raw data sets which are available for download.
Search and view documents released through the FOIA and other CIA release programs.
- [US Department of State Records](https://foia.state.gov/)
Search through 221,373 documents reviewed and released to the public.
- [US National Archives](https://www.archives.gov/)
An independent agency of the United States government charged with the preservation and documentation of government and historical records. It is also tasked with increasing public access to those documents which make up the National Archive.
- [UK National Archives](https://nationalarchives.gov.uk/)
One of the worlds largest archives, containing over 11 million historical government and public records. From Domesday Book to modern government files. Includes paper records, digital records, websites, photographs, posters, maps, drawings and paintings.
A gateway to over 800 archival repositories across Canada.
- [Australian National Archives Search](https://recordsearch.naa.gov.au/SearchNRetrieve/Interface/SearchScreens/BasicSearch.aspx)
A tool to search the national archives of Australia. Includes an advanced search function.
## **Leaked Data Sets**
- [WikiLeaks](https://wikileaks.org/)
An international non-profit organization that publishes leaks and classified media from governments, companies and organizations alike. All data is provided by anonymous sources. #FreeAssange.
- [CryptoMe](https://cryptome.org/)
Publishes documents that are prohibited by governments worldwide. Particularly material on freedom of expression, privacy, cryptology, dual-use technologies, national security, intelligence, secret governance, open, secret and/or classified documents.
Data from more than 785,000 offshore companies, foundations and trusts from the [Panama Papers](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Panama_Papers), [Offshore Leaks](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Offshore_Leaks), [Bahamas Leaks](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bahamas_Leaks), and the [Paradise Papers](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paradise_Papers).
Also known as the "LuxLeaks", is a collection of over 350 documents about Luxembourg's tax rulings set up by PricewaterhouseCoopers from 2002 to 2010 to the benefits of its clients.
Criminal history, latest news and investigations organized by country. Provides news and information about the drug trade, armed groups, criminal actors, and other investigative reports.
comprises a network of over 500 independent global and regional experts working on human rights, democracy, governance, and development issues where organized crime has become increasingly pertinent.
Numbeo allows you to see, share and compare information about crime levels and types worldwide. It surveys the following about crime and safety in the cities.
A great resource for identifying various tattoos and their known affiliations. Archived copy can be found [here (Wayback)](https://web.archive.org/web/20210926230255/https://info.publicintelligence.net/CBSA-TattooHandbook.pdf).
- [Wanted by the RCMP](https://www.rcmp-grc.gc.ca/en/wanted)
A list of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police's (RCMP) most wanted fugitives.
- [Europe's Most Wanted Fugitives](https://eumostwanted.eu/)
A list of the most wanted criminals in Europe. List is maintained by EUROPOL.
## **Criminal Enterprises, Gangs and Syndicates**
- [GangstersInc](https://gangstersinc.org/)
One of the best places for the latest news and in-depth reporting on the Mafia and other organized crime groups from around the world.
- [Biker News](https://biker-news.com/)
1%er motorcycle club news from all over the world.
- [[IMAGE] Common Outlaw Biker Gang Colors](https://imgur.com/a/fVkg3cg)
A few images that display the common layouts and patches used by 1%er outlaw motorcycle clubs. Archived [here (Wayback)](https://web.archive.org/web/20210927015917/https://imgur.com/a/fVkg3cg) and [here (archive.today)](https://archive.ph/5kQPR).
- [StreetGangs](https://www.streetgangs.com/)
Provides information and current news regarding various street gangs and prison gangs.
- [Wikipedia - List of Criminal Enterprises](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_criminal_enterprises,_gangs,_and_syndicates) ([WikiLess](https://wikiless.org/wiki/List_of_criminal_enterprises,_gangs,_and_syndicates))
This is a global listing of criminal enterprises, cartels, smuggling rings, street and prison gangs, tongs, mafias, syndicates and cybercrime networks that are or have been involved in organized crime. Some data here is out-dated, but still valuable.
## **Human Trafficking and Migration**
- [Global Modern Slavery Directory](https://www.globalmodernslavery.org/)
Designed to be a useful tool for all stakeholders in the global anti-human trafficking field including providers, potential victims, survivors, community members, researchers, students, and others looking to identify or connect with resources.
The global resource and research database on human trafficking. The database consists of academic journals, reports, research studies, congressional testimony, news articles, and other primary and secondary sources.
- [[PDF] Financial Flows from Human Trafficking 2018](https://www.fatf-gafi.org/media/fatf/content/images/Human-Trafficking-2018.pdf)
A report from 2018 by the Financial Action Taskforce (FATF) about the financial proceeds from human trafficking. Archived [here (Wayback)](https://web.archive.org/web/20210919032302/https://www.fatf-gafi.org/media/fatf/content/images/Human-Trafficking-2018.pdf).
- [MixedMigration](https://mixedmigration.org/)
The MMC is a leading source for independent and high quality data, information, research and analysis on mixed migration.
- [Migration Policy Data Hub](https://www.migrationpolicy.org/programs/migration-data-hub)
Showcases the most current national and state-level demographic, social, and economic facts about immigrants to the United States; as well as stock, flow, citizenship, net migration, and historical data for countries in Europe, North America, and beyond.
- [[PDF] The Cocaine Pipeline to Europe](https://globalinitiative.net/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/The-cocaine-pipeline-to-Europe-GI-TOCInsightCrime.pdf)
Report from Global Initiative that shows information about the cocaine pipeline and smuggling routes into Europe. Archived versions of this document can be found [here (Wayback)](https://web.archive.org/web/20210927003801/https://globalinitiative.net/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/The-cocaine-pipeline-to-Europe-GI-TOCInsightCrime.pdf) and [here (archive.today)](https://archive.ph/kEYyw).
- [[PDF] DEA Drug Slang Terms and Code Words](https://www.dea.gov/sites/default/files/2018-07/DIR-022-18.pdf)
This compendium of drug slang terms has been alphabetically ordered, and identifies drugs and drug categories in English and foreign languages. Archived copies of this document can be found [here (Wayback)](https://web.archive.org/web/20210927012704/https://www.dea.gov/sites/default/files/2018-07/DIR-022-18.pdf) and [here (Library Genesis)](https://libgen.rs/book/index.php?md5=A2356AFF1CF581E5862D8A9BC1D0C0E9).
- [Commonly Abused Drug Charts](https://www.drugabuse.gov/drug-topics/commonly-used-drugs-charts)
Contains information and reports about the most commonly used drugs.
- [[PDF] List of Controlled Substances](https://www.deadiversion.usdoj.gov/schedules/orangebook/c_cs_alpha.pdf)
An alphabetical list of controlled substances in the United States. Archived versions of this document can be found [here (Wayback)](https://web.archive.org/web/20210923040830/https://www.deadiversion.usdoj.gov/schedules/orangebook/c_cs_alpha.pdf) and [here (Library Genesis)](https://libgen.rs/book/index.php?md5=90AF84A9F895AA3DE7FF004B8E780480).
- [OFAC Sanctions List Search](https://sanctionssearch.ofac.treas.gov/)
The US sanctions list includes many entities involved in drug trafficking, including a long list of individuals and companies targeted under the “Kingpin Act". Also available as a [PDF document](https://home.treasury.gov/system/files/126/narco_sanctions_kingpin.pdf). Archived copy of this document from June 8th, 2021 can be found [here (Wayback)](https://web.archive.org/web/20210731183456/https://home.treasury.gov/system/files/126/narco_sanctions_kingpin.pdf).
- [FDA Approved Drug Index](https://www.accessdata.fda.gov/scripts/cder/daf/index.cfm)
Includes information about drugs, including biological products, approved for human use in the United States.
- [DEA Drug Images](https://www.dea.gov/media-gallery/drug-images)
A database with images of many different types of illicit drugs. Created and maintained by the United States DEA.
- [[PDF] 2020 National Drug Threat Assessment](https://www.dea.gov/sites/default/files/2021-02/DIR-008-21%202020%20National%20Drug%20Threat%20Assessment_WEB.pd)
Lots and lots of good information in here including some pretty interesting images. Has information about transnational traffickers in the Americas and Asia, trafficking methods, and illicit finance. Archived copies available [here (Wayback)](https://web.archive.org/web/20210918005345/https://www.dea.gov/sites/default/files/2021-02/DIR-008-21%202020%20National%20Drug%20Threat%20Assessment_WEB.pdf) and [here (Library Genesis)](https://libgen.rs/book/index.php?md5=99DEB4338B7B542BC4EC6CEE9F61515F).
Basic information regarding the illegal wildlife trade from the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service.
- [Oxpeckers](https://oxpeckers.org/)
Africa's first environmental investigation unit. Combining traditional investigative techniques, data analysis and GEOINT to help expose wildlife offences and track organized criminal syndicates.
A tool to track seizures, arrests, court cases & convictions relating to wildlife crime across Europe.
- [WWF](https://www.worldwildlife.org/)
The World Wide Fund for Nature is an international non-governmental organization founded in 1961 that works in the field of wilderness and wildlife preservation and the reduction of human impact on the environment.
- [Top 10 Most Trafficked Animals](https://www.worldatlas.com/articles/10-most-trafficked-animals-on-the-planet.html)
A list of the most trafficked animals on the planet.
- [INTERPOL Environmental and Wildlife Crime](https://www.interpol.int/en/Crimes/Environmental-crime/Wildlife-crime)
Provides information about wildlife operations conducted by INTERPOL. Also provides some great documents related to the global illicit wildlife trade.
- [DOJ Prosecution of Federal Wildlife Crimes](https://www.justice.gov/enrd/prosecution-federal-wildlife-crimes)
This page maintained by the United States Department of Justice (DOJ) shows details and outcomes of various criminal wildlife cases.
Released on September 8th, 2020. This is the first report published by the wildlife whistleblowing initiative known as [WildLeaks](https://wildleaks.org/). Archived copies can be found [here (Wayback)](https://web.archive.org/web/20210927053350/https://wildleaks.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/WildLeaks-Report-Sept2020.pdf) and [here (Library Genesis)](https://libgen.is/book/index.php?md5=8A79177F7472175A0888E848E03B4A03).
- [[PDF] Money Laundering and the Illegal Wildlife Trade](https://web.archive.org/web/20210927054224/https://www.fatf-gafi.org/media/fatf/documents/Money-laundering-and-illegal-wildlife-trade.pdf)
A report released in June 2020 from the FATF that describes how proceeds from the wildlife black market is laundered and how its used to fuel crime and corruption. Archived [here (Wayback)](https://web.archive.org/web/20210828075156/https://www.fatf-gafi.org/media/fatf/documents/Money-laundering-and-illegal-wildlife-trade.pdf) and [here (Library Genesis)](https://libgen.rs/book/index.php?md5=A35AACB947BD0D522D125B61DAF6B793).
- [[PDF] UNODC Wildlife and Forest Crime Analytic Toolkit](https://cites.org/sites/default/files/common/resources/pub/ICCWC_Toolkit_v2_english.pdf)
A very well put together document that gives a comprehensive overview for understanding the main issues related to environmental offences and for analysing preventive and criminal justice responses to wildlife and forest offences in a given country. Archived copies available [here (Wayback)](https://web.archive.org/web/20210927063331/https://cites.org/sites/default/files/common/resources/pub/ICCWC_Toolkit_v2_english.pdf) and [here (Library Genesis)](https://libgen.rs/book/index.php?md5=ADBA125A24A701D05960BD71CA5F59BB).
## **Fraud and Scams**
- [Fake-Scam](https://www.fake-scam.info/)
A German website with information, reports and guides on how to identify and avoid scams. Click [here](https://www-fake--scam-info.translate.goog/?_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en-GB&_x_tr_pto=nui) for a German to English translation.
## **Other Illicit Trade**
- [ICOM Red Lists](https://icom.museum/en/resources/red-lists/)
This illustrated database compiles all the categories of at-risk cultural goods in the ICOM Red Lists. For more information on the Red Lists, please visit their [dedicated page](https://icom.museum/en/our-actions/heritage-protection/red-lists/).
- [Havocscope](https://havocscope.com/)
Provides information and threat intelligence on the global black market. The information about the black market has been collected from government agencies, academic studies, media reports, and reported data from other private sources.
The leading organization for combating cultural racketeering and the illegal antiquities trade. Also provides many useful reports and infographics related to the illegal antiquities trade.
- [INTERPOL Stolen Works of Art Database](https://www.interpol.int/en/Crimes/Cultural-heritage-crime/Stolen-Works-of-Art-Database)
Search INTERPOLs worldwide database of stolen art and artifacts. Requires you to submit an application form and register.
A searchable database of stolen art and artifacts. Designed to assist law enforcement, dealers and buyers in identifying stolen artifacts. Contains descriptions and images of items, organized by type.
Search for boats that have been reported stolen in Canada. Search by either boat name, hull identification number, license number or registration number.
- [CPIC Stolen Boat Motor Database](https://www.cpic-cipc.ca/sbm-rmb-eng.htm)
Search for boat motors that have been reported stolen in Canada. Search by serial number and motor type.
## **Firearms**
- [HotGunz](https://www.hotgunz.com/search.php)
A searchable database of firearms that have been reported stolen. Search by serial number.
Search for a wide range of stolen items including electronics, bikes, tools and more.
- [IMEI Pro](https://www.imeipro.info/)
Enter a device IMEI number and see if it has been blacklisted. They also provide a very useful [IMEI lookup for iPhone](https://www.imeipro.info/check_imei_iphone.html) that includes additional information. Such as iCloud lock details, FindMyiPhone status, warranty status and AppleCare status.
Allows you to check if a mobile phone has been blacklisted in Canada. Only cell carriers are able to add devices to this database. Search by device IMEI number.
- [Stolen911](https://stolen911.com/)
Allows you to search for leads and help recover stolen items from crowd-sourced reports.
- [The NMPR](https://thenmpr.com/home)
The National Mobile Property Register is a real-time search portal that allows you to search a vast property history database. Allows you to search a serial number or IMEI.
Find out whether numbered object is lost. A full identification number of an object is required. Indicate the whole number or a part of it searching for lost bicycles.
An interactive map that identifies patterns in the evolution of militant organizations in specified conflict theatres and provides representations of changing relationships among groups.
An online archive of gun violence incidents collected from over 7,500 law enforcement, media, government and commercial sources daily in an effort to provide near-real time data about the results of gun violence.
Here is a database of almost every firearm ever made.
Its a digital version of the the Canadian RCMP Firearms Reference Table (FRT). You can download the full FRT in .pdf format from [here](https://www.rcmp-grc.gc.ca/en/firearms/firearms-reference-table), which is constantly being updated. An archived copy created on 25/10/2021 can be found [here (Wayback)](https://web.archive.org/web/20211026023039/https://mpfirearmspublicstore.blob.core.windows.net/firearms-reference-table/frt-traf-eng.pdf).
- [Modern Firearms](https://modernfirearms.net/)
Encyclopedia of firearms and ammunition from the 20th and 21st centuries.
- [The Weapons ID Database](http://www.smallarmssurvey.org/weapons-and-markets/tools/weapons-id-database.html)
This database was developed with the support of the Royal Armouries UK, and features downloadable weapons ID sheets which detail the visual information required to accurately identify and record particular types of weapons.
A forum for military surplus firearm collectors. Contains lots of images, descriptions, markings, stamps and plenty of other information. Organized by county of origin or weapon type.
- [FirearmsGuide](https://www.firearmsguide.com/)
The largest guns and ammunition reference guide. See the current value of used firearms, find gun manuals, schematics, blueprints and more.
- [Municion](https://municion.org/buscador/)
A searchable database of various firearm ammunition. Provides images, measurements, descriptions and related documentation. The site is written in Spanish, so use a translation service if you don't speak Spanish.
Ran by YouTuber Ian McCollum. Offers videos and articles with extremely in-depth history, reviews, complete disassembly and reassembly of hundreds of different firearms.
- [Internet Movie Firearms Database](http://www.imfdb.org/wiki/Main_Page)
An online database of firearms used or featured in films, television shows, video games, and anime.
A great resource that lists information regarding ordnance, explosives, rockets, mines and other related items. Organized by type and country of origin. They also offer an offline version, which is really nice.
- [Ordnance Info](https://ordnance.info/)
A database that displays type, country of origin, manufacturer, dimensions, images and other information about both lethal and non-lethal grenades.
- [Missiles of the World](https://missilethreat.csis.org/missile/)
Information on strike capabilities from around the globe. Includes ballistic missiles, cruise missiles, rockets, artillery, and mortars (RAM), and even maneuvering hypersonic boost glide delivery systems. Organized by country, this represents a growing collection of information on global missile systems, with illustrations and up-to-date information on their capabilities and history.
- [RiotID](https://riotid.com/)
This project consists of a series of guides to understanding different non-lethal riot control weapons and their effects, as well as guides on documenting evidence on use of force violations.
- [CORData](https://ordata.info/)
The Collaborative Ordnance data repository (CORD) enables web-based search of landmine and other explosive ordnance (EO) data to assist humanitarian demining and ordnance disposal operations. Requires you to create an account.
- [Wikipedia - List of Landmines](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_land_mines) ([WikiLess](https://wikiless.org/wiki/List_of_land_mines))
The authoritative digital resource for the Worldwide Equipment Guide (WEG), Decisive Action Training Environment (DATE) and accompanying force structures. Has information about almost every piece of modern military equipment. Aircraft, vehicles, missiles, communications, small arms, naval watercraft, radar systems and much more.
Reference covering global aerospace/aviation news, the infantry warfighter, defense vehicles, and naval/maritime offerings both past and present
### **Motor Vehicles**
- [[PDF] Worldwide Equipment Identification Cards - North Korea/DPRK](https://fas.org/irp/doddir/army/id-dprk.pdf)
Visual equipment identification guide for DPRK. Archived copies available [here (Wayback)](https://web.archive.org/web/20211020005557/https://irp.fas.org/doddir/army/id-dprk.pdf) and [here (Library Genesis)](https://libgen.is/book/index.php?md5=C64836C3B4E9AC5E0FB58FA0315FBA1C).
Visual equipment identification guide for Iran. Archived copies available [here (Wayback)](https://web.archive.org/web/20211020015449/https://irp.fas.org/doddir/army/id-iran.pdf) and [here (Library Genesis)](https://libgen.is/book/index.php?md5=F413F6891A1CF0C7CCEE8C159E384EBD).
Visual equipment identification guide for Russia. Archived copies available [here (Wayback)](https://web.archive.org/web/20211020012301/https://irp.fas.org/doddir/army/id-russia.pdf) and [here (Library Genesis)](https://libgen.is/book/index.php?md5=255C13FBC893B682F9FF7231628AB019).
Visual equipment identification guide for China. Archived copies available [here (Wayback)](https://web.archive.org/web/20211019220701/https://irp.fas.org/doddir/army/id-china.pdf) and [here (Library Genesis)](https://libgen.is/book/index.php?md5=A90F39D544447DE6C036F442B13AA7C8).
- [[IMAGE] US Combat Vehicles Infographic](https://www.offgridweb.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/Military-vehicles-guide-1.jpg)
Quick visual reference for US military vehicles. Archived [here (Wayback)](https://web.archive.org/web/20211019091334/https://www.offgridweb.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/Military-vehicles-guide-1.jpg) and [here (archive.today)](https://archive.ph/vMMFI/3e09335b7062a22bb09ba09f349d4b1db762ee80.jpg).
Visual reference guide for common equipment with notes and technical information. Archived [here (Wayback)](https://web.archive.org/web/20211020004238/https://man.fas.org/dod-101/sys/land/row/weg.pdf) and [here (Library Genesis)](http://libgen.rs/book/index.php?md5=B6DBF1D98E3BB079BB30AFE18342398D).
Visual reference guide with descriptions on armored vehicles.
- [Army-Guide](http://www.army-guide.com/eng/)
Information about the main battle tanks, armored vehicles and armament of land forces and also the information concerning other army subjects.
### **Aircraft**
- [[PDF] US Army Visual Aircraft Recognition](https://fas.org/irp/doddir/army/fm3-01-80.pdf)
US military guide in 2006 that was meant to identify aircraft, complete with pictures and descriptions of aircraft features. Archived copied available [here (Wayback)](https://web.archive.org/web/20211019230826/https://irp.fas.org/doddir/army/fm3-01-80.pdf) and [here (Library Genesis)](https://libgen.rs/book/index.php?md5=656F193B8047D4D45926570BC959239A).
Visual reference to some drones in use by current militaries, including use, as well as some survival information about drones. Entire website archived [here (Wayback)](https://web.archive.org/details/http://www.dronesurvivalguide.org/).
List of UAVs including detailed information about payloads, dimensions and other drone specifications.
- [Wikipedia - List of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_unmanned_aerial_vehicles) ([WikiLess](https://wikiless.org/wiki/List_of_unmanned_aerial_vehicles))
Wikipedia's list of UAVs that sorts UAVs by country.
Useful reference to different naval ships across the world.
- [US Navy Ships](https://fas.org/man/dod-101/sys/ship/index.html)
Comprehensive guide that includes operation classes, new underdevelopment classes, and classes that have been retired since the Cold War specific to the US Navy.
A neatly organized directory of naval and naval equipment used by various militaries from all over the world.
### **Submarines**
- [[IMAGE] Submarines of the World](https://i.insider.com/554907daecad0494243bf245?width=1300&format=jpeg)
Visual reference guide to current submarines in service as of 2015. Archived [here (Wayback)](https://web.archive.org/web/20211026023615/https://i.imgur.com/IA8pBxC.png) and [here (archive.today)](https://archive.ph/XGg9G).
This is an excellent source of information about many different kinds of gas masks. Includes images, images of stamps, identifiers and more.
- [NoFuture Gas Masks](http://nofuture.com/gasmasks.net/)
One of the most quintessential gas mask information resources available. Although much of the names and descriptions of certain masks are outdated, it is still an excellent encyclopedia of gas masks.
A comprehensive, accurate, and academically-supported database referencing all of the major military and paramilitary camouflage patterns that have been in use around the world since the beginning of the 20th century.
Contains information on all transfers of major conventional weapons from 1950 to now. It is a unique resource for researchers, policy-makers and analysts, the media and civil society interested in monitoring and measuring the international flow of major conventional arms.
Supplies unique evidence on weapon supplies into armed conflicts in order to inform and support effective weapon management and control. Offers field guides, identification guides and more.
- [SIPRI International Arms Embargoes](https://www.sipri.org/databases/embargoes)
This archive contains information on all multilateral arms embargoes that have been implemented by an international organization, such as the EU or UN, or by a group of nations. It includes both legally binding embargoes and those that are solely political commitments.
MAD features over 35,000 records of the exports and imports of small arms and ammunition from more than 262 states and territories between 1992 and 2014.
International arms export licenses and statistics.
# <u>**Government Information**</u>
## **General Information**
- [LittleSis](https://littlesis.org/)
A watchdog network connecting the dots between the world's most powerful people and organizations. Offers a free and searchable database of who-knows-who at the heights of business and government.
- [EmbassyWorld](https://www.embassyworld.org/)
A directory of embassy locations and contact information for different embassies from around the world.
A Wikipedia page with information regarding machine-readable travel documents (MRTDs).
- [NIDC ID Database](https://nidc.dk/en/ID-databases)
Here you will find descriptions of and links to applicable ID databases, which include copies of ID, travel and breeder documents. Some databases are reserved for law enforcement, while others are publicly accessible.
A massive collection of identification, licenses and other personal documents from around the world. Made up of members of all police forces and has the main purpose of creating an information tool that is useful to those who do deal with the fight against illicit vehicle trafficking, document fraud and human trafficking. Click [here](https://translate.google.com/translate?sl=auto&tl=en&u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.vehicle-documents.it%2F) for an Italian to English translation.
Documents of member states of the European Union in alphabetic order of the three-letter country codes used in travel documents, followed by documents of the other countries participating in [PRADO](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public_Register_of_Travel_and_Identity_Documents_Online).
#### **Social Security Numbers (SSN)**
- [Social Security Place of Issue Lookup](https://www.ics.uci.edu/~dan/genealogy/Miller/javascrp/ssn.htm)
Allows you to search an SSN and see what location it was issued in.
This webpage describes the format of SSNs and how to decode them.
- [Guide to Deciphering SSNs](https://www.fi-magazine.com/309133/deciphering-social-security-numbers)
An informative guide on how to decode SSNs
- [[PDF] The Social Security Number From 1937-2018](https://repositories.lib.utexas.edu/handle/2152/66022)
A detailed account of the history and use of SSNs issued from 1937 to 2018. Archived copy available [here (Library Genesis)](https://libgen.rs/book/index.php?md5=6E0722516E7EF5200C05771B24261EA7).
- [What Does Your SSN Say About You?](https://www.accurate.com/blog/what-does-your-social-security-number-say-about-you/)
Great informative article about social security numbers.
### **Country Specific**
#### **Australia**
- [Western Australia Driver's License Status Enquiry](https://online.transport.wa.gov.au/webExternal/driver/?1)
Search for relevant information regarding a Western Australian issued driver's license.
- [Queensland Driver's License Status Check](https://www.service.transport.qld.gov.au/checkdriverlicencestatus/application/SpecifyCustomer.xhtml?dswid=1860)
Search for relevant information regarding a Queensland issued driver's license.
This website enables you to verify in real time whether a Belgian identity document is known to the authorities as being stolen, lost, expired, invalid or never issued. Requires registration.
Check the validity of Bulgarian identity cards, driver's licenses, passports, EU citizen certificates, refugee status cards, seaman passports and more.
- [BGR PIN Number Check](https://georgi.unixsol.org/programs/egn.php)
Check the validity of a Bulgarian single civil number (PIN). Click [here](https://translate.google.com/translate?sl=auto&tl=en&u=https%3A%2F%2Fgeorgi.unixsol.org%2Fprograms%2Fegn.php) for a Bulgarian to English translation.
A list of other useful tools regarding Greek passports.
#### **Iceland**
- [Security of Icelandic Passports](https://www.skra.is/english/people/passport-and-id-card/passport/various-information-on-passports/security-of-icelandic-passports/)
Contains information regarding the construction and security features of Icelandic passports.
#### **Italy**
- [Stolen and Lost Identity Documents](https://www.crimnet.dcpc.interno.gov.it/crimnet/en/stolen_lost_document_researching)
Search a document number to identify if that document has been reported as lost or stolen. Includes identity cards, electronic identity cards, driver's licenses, passports and other documents.
Search via document number to see if that document is still valid or has expired.
#### **Norway**
- [[PDF] Control Guide for Norwegian Passports](https://www.politiet.no/globalassets/02-tjenester-admin/pass-og-id-kort/control-guide-for-norwegian-passports.pdf)
This document provides security information for Norwegian passports. Archived copy available [here (Wayback)](https://web.archive.org/web/20210927042805/https://www.politiet.no/globalassets/02-tjenester-admin/pass-og-id-kort/control-guide-for-norwegian-passports.pdf).
- [[PDF] National ID Card Control Guide](https://www.politiet.no/globalassets/02-tjenester-admin/pass-og-id-kort/control-guide-national-id-card.pdf)
This document provides security information for Norwegian national identification cards. Archived copies available [here (Wayback)](https://web.archive.org/web/20210927043134/https://www.politiet.no/globalassets/02-tjenester-admin/pass-og-id-kort/control-guide-national-id-card.pdf).
#### **Netherlands**
- [Dutch ID Cards for Aliens](https://www.identiteitsdocumenten.nl/en)
A site that displays information and security features for Dutch identity cards and documents.
You will see what permissions to drive vehicles are on the document along with their expiry date. Also allows you to check the current status of a Polish driver's document.
- [Polish ID Card Information](https://www.gov.pl/web/gov/dowod-osobisty-informacje)
Contains plenty of information regarding Polish ID cards. Click [here](https://translate.google.com/translate?sl=auto&tl=en&u=https://www.gov.pl/web/gov/dowod-osobisty-informacje) for a Polish to English translation.
Contains plenty of information regarding Polish passports. Click [here](https://translate.google.com/translate?sl=auto&tl=en&u=https://www.gov.pl/web/gov/paszport-informacje-o-dokumencie) for a Polish to English translation.
Check the validity of a Russian passport. Click [here](https://translate.google.com/translate?sl=auto&tl=en&u=https://проверки.гувм.мвд.рф/services/passport) for a Russian to English translation.
Check the list of invalid Russian passports. Click [here](https://translate.google.com/translate?sl=auto&tl=en&u=http://services.fms.gov.ru/info-service.htm?sid=2000) for a Russian to English translation.
Search a database to identify stolen identification documents. Click [here](https://translate.google.com/translate?sl=auto&tl=en&u=https://www.minv.sk/?stratene-a-odcudzene-doklady) for a Slovak to English translation.
#### **Slovenia**
- [Stolen Personal Document Search](https://e-uprava.gov.si/en/public-registers/misappropriated-documents.html)
Search for stolen, lost or missing Slovenian personal documents. Such as passports, ID cards, driver's licenses, border transit passes, firearms licenses and residency permits.
Search for invalid personal documents issues by the government of Ukraine. Including passports, national ID cards, refugee status cards, residency permits and more.
Synchronized translation for 100 languages, predictive typing, dictionary with transcription, pronunciation and usage examples, and many other features.
This document describes the different naming conventions used in a variety of different languages. Archived copies can be found [here (Wayback)](https://web.archive.org/web/20210927032149/bankersonline.com/sites/default/files/tools/namingconventions_0.pdf).
## **General Dictionaries**
- [Ethnologue](https://www.ethnologue.com/)
Discover and research the world's 7,139 known living languages.
Allows you to stream multiple live news feeds, YouTube channels and music stations at once on a single page.
- [DownVids](https://www.downvids.net/)
Allows a user to easily download videos from YouTube, Vimeo, Facebook and Instagram by entering a URL.
## **Other**
- [OH SHINT! Blog](https://ohshint.gitbook.io/)
Yep, it's an OSINT blog. This is where you are now.
- [MonologueDB](http://www.monologuedb.com/)
Online collection of monologues from movies, TV shows, plays and more. Includes transcripts and video clips.
- [What Tree Is That?](https://www.arborday.org/trees/whatTree/)
An interactive tool that helps identify a certain type of tree by asking a few questions.
- [FakeSpot](https://www.fakespot.com/)
Spot and avoid shady sellers, products with dishonest reviews and scam websites for free. Available as a website, Android and iOS application, Firefox add-on and as a Google Chrome extension.
- [Six Degrees of Wikipedia](https://www.sixdegreesofwikipedia.com/)
Interesting tool that shows you a graph of the shortest paths from one Wikipedia topic to another. Mostly useless, but still worth mentioning.
- [WikiLess](https://wikiless.org/)
A privacy focused alternative to Wikipedia. Basically Wikipedia without all of the invasive tracking.
