Awesome OSINT

A TraceLabs endorsed list of awesome OSINT frameworks, libraries and software.

Note that there are great OSINT tools out there, but this list consists of tools that apply specifically to missing-persons searches.

Tool Scope

This list only includes free and freely accessible tools. Paid or commercial tools are not eligible for inclusion at this time.

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Contents

📌 Contents

• Email Search
• Multi Search
• Username Search
• Social Media
• Phone Numbers
• People Search
• Images & Video Analysis
• Documentation & Capture
• Geolocation & Mapping
• Domain/IP/Infrastructure
• Wireless
• Translation

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📧 Email Search

Tools for performing email searches via social media, breach info, and other sources.

• Buster – Advanced tool for email reconnaissance.
• Have I Been Pwned – Check if an email address has been exposed in a data breach.

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🔍 Multi Search

Tools that perform searches over multiple sources (social media, domains, IPs, phone numbers, etc).

• Maltego – Provides a library of transforms for OSINT discovery and visualizes information in graph format for link analysis.
• SpiderFoot – Automates the collection of OSINT to find everything possible about a target.

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🆔 Username Search

Tools to check username availability across multiple platforms.

• WhatsMyName – Search usernames across hundreds of websites.

• Sherlock – Search usernames across social networks from the command line.

• Forensic OSINT Full Page Screen Capture – Browser extension that captures full web page screens and videos

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📱 Social Media

Tools for gathering OSINT from popular social media platforms.

• Instaloader – Download Instagram photos, videos, captions, and metadata.

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📞 Phone Numbers

Frameworks and services for investigating phone numbers.

• PhoneInfoga – Information gathering framework for phone numbers.
• Truecaller – Caller ID and spam lookup service (commercial).

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🖼️ Images & Video Analysis

Tools for reverse image search, metadata extraction, and video analysis.

• Google Images – Reverse image search.
• Yandex Images – Alternative reverse image search with strong face-recognition capabilities.
• Surfface – Face search and people finder that indexes social profiles and other public media.
• ExifTool – Extract metadata (EXIF, GPS, timestamps) from photos and videos.
• Jimpl EXIF Viewer – Simple online tool for checking image metadata (no install required).
• FFmpeg – Multimedia framework for extracting and processing video/audio.

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📝 Documentation & Capture

Tools to preserve findings during an investigation.

• GoWitness – CLI tool to take screenshots of web pages for evidence collection.
• Wayback Machine – Browse historical snapshots of websites.

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🌍 Geolocation & Mapping

Resources for geolocation and map-based OSINT.

• Google Maps – Street view and satellite imagery.
• Mapillary – Crowdsourced street-level imagery.

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🌐 Domain/IP/Infrastructure

Search engines and tools for investigating internet infrastructure.

• Shodan – Search engine for internet-connected devices.
• Censys – Internet-wide scanning and intelligence platform.

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📡 Wireless

Tools for wireless network mapping and signals intelligence.

• WiGLE – Wireless network mapping database.

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🌐 Translation

Tools to help translate and understand foreign-language content.

• Translate Shell – Command-line translator powered by Google, Bing, Yandex, and more.
• DeepL – High-quality translation service with strong support for European and Asian languages.