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 geo-tagged 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.
A collection of tools for Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, Reddit and YouTube. Find user IDs, search comments on Reddit, calculate earnings from a YouTube channel and more.
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.
The "Social Media Dictionary". Helps discover what hashtags mean, also lets you add your own definitions.
- [Alternative Social Platform Search](https://www.osintcombine.com/alt-tech-social-search)
A Google CSE from OSINT Combine that searches across alternative and "non-mainstream" social platforms and boards including Parler, Gab, Minds, BitChute, DLive.tv, Rumble, JustPaste.it, WrongThink.net & 8kun.
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!
Easily search for Discord servers by keyword using a simple wrapper for Yandex and Google. Made by [@jakecreps](https://twitter.com/jakecreps) and [@aleksanderrr_](https://twitter.com/aleksanderrr_).
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.
## <u>**Instagram**</u>
- [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.
Takes data from Instagram's public profile views and puts it into a friendlier page that loads faster, gives downloadable images, eliminates ads, generates RSS feeds, and doesn't urge you to sign up.
- [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 subreddit and view an interactive chart of related subreddits.
- [RedditMetis](https://redditmetis.com/)
Enter a username and see recent activity, comment and submission summaries, word cloud, and more interesting stats. Data is generated from the last 1,000 comments and submissions.
- [Redective](https://www.redective.com/)
Search for a username or subreddit and view in-depth statistics about it.
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 (Library Genesis)](http://libgen.rs/book/index.php?md5=27E6DE921660B3D2C1AF533199A08137).
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.
A very interesting Russian OSINT bot for Telegram. Search via username, email, IMSI, IMEI, BTS, MSISDN, IP address or BSSID. Click [here](https://sovaweb-herokuapp-com.translate.goog/?_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en-GB&_x_tr_pto=nui) for a Russian to English translation.
A Google CSE that allows you to search for comments in Telegram threads.
- [Tgstat](https://tgstat.com/)
One of the largest directories of Telegram channels. Provides detailed information about audience growth, engagements, and mentions of a particular channel in various sources.
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).
- [Twitch Community Overlap](https://stats.roki.sh/)
Shows the viewer and audience overlap stats between different channels on Twitch. You can find who's community overlaps the most with your favorite streamer. You can also check which channels chat hoppers are going to.
A tool to view chatter of a specific user. Enter a username at the end of the URL. Example: `https://t.3v.fi/chatters/?ch=username-here`.
- [Twitch Logs](https://logs.ivr.fi/)
Enter a username and the name of a channel to see all of a user's messages in that channel. Results can be exported as a TXT file.
- [Pogu.live](https://pogu.live/)
Allows you to watch sub only or deleted video-on-demand (VODs) for free. It works because when a streamer deletes a video, it is not deleted from Twitch servers immediately.
- [ModLookup](https://modlookup.3v.fi/)
Returns all channels recently live in the last 3 months the user has a sword in out of the pool of millions of channels the tool tracks on a daily basis.
You can find detailed stats about your favorite streamer, channel, game and teams. There are many different stats including newest twitch team, channel subscriber count, new and best clips and multiple ranking for all the games and streamers.
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.
Extracts the exact date and time from the tweet ID by reverse-engineering the [Twitter Snowflake](https://blog.twitter.com/engineering/en_us/a/2010/announcing-snowflake.html).
In-depth analysis of Twitter followers. Identifies inactive and fake accounts, assesses followers by the number of tweets, profile information, biography, geolocation, links, profile picture. Requires you to login to Twitter.
An OSINT tool for scraping data from the untappd.com social media site.
## <u>**VKontakte**</u>
- [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.
## <u>**VSCO**</u>
- [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.
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.
