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Curated OSINT-tool catalog from Bellingcat's Online Investigation Toolkit (https://bellingcat.gitbook.io/toolkit). Sourced from the upstream nightly CSV release at https://github.com/bellingcat/toolkit/releases/tag/csv. Layout: - SKILL.md - overview, persona affinity matrix (12 personas), workflow primer, quick recipes, cross-reference to other repo skills - data/all-tools.csv - 342-row raw catalog (Category,Name,URL,Description, Cost,Details). Greppable for ad-hoc queries. - references/<category>.md (x12) - per-category tool tables (Maps & Satellites 83, Geolocation 9, Image/Video 35, Social Media 63, People 33, Websites 17, Companies & Finance 26, Conflict 6, Transport 27, Environment & Wildlife 24, Archiving 8, Data Org & Analysis 11) - scripts/refresh.sh - re-pull CSV from upstream nightly release - scripts/regenerate-references.py - rebuild references/*.md from CSV Persona mapping (DEFAULT_SKILL_PERSONA_MAP): oracle, frodo, wraith, sentinel, scribe, ledger, centurion, marshal, warden, echo, herald, ghost - 12 personas covering the OSINT operations spectrum. NAME_PATTERNS: bellingcat- prefix added to osint-intel bucket so the skill lands in opencode/feynman default topic install set. Cost stratification across all 342 tools: 264 free, 56 freemium, 16 paid. Free-tier substitutes exist for nearly every paid service. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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Bellingcat Toolkit — Social Media
63 tools (48 free / 13 freemium / 1 paid).
Source: https://bellingcat.gitbook.io/toolkit/categories/social-media Updated nightly from https://github.com/bellingcat/toolkit.
| Tool | Cost | Purpose |
|---|---|---|
| Facebook Video Downloader | Free | Handy website to download public Facebook videos. Copy paste the URL of the video and download it in the available definition formats. |
| HaveIBeenZuckered | Free | Check if a telephone number is present within the Facebook data breach. |
| Meta Content Library | Free | Meta Content Library is a controlled-access tool that lets approved academic and non-profit researchers search the full public archive of Facebook, Instagram, and Threads posts, in near-real-time. |
| Who posted what? | Free | A tool that allows a keyword search on Facebook on a specific date or within a specific time frame. |
| Tool | Cost | Purpose |
|---|---|---|
| Instagram Location Search | Free | A command line tool that allows users to find location tags near a specified latitude and longitude. |
| InstaLoader | Free | Download pictures or videos (with metadata) from Instagram. |
| Story Saver | Free | Download public Instagram Stories, Highlights and Videos. |
Multiple Platforms
| Tool | Cost | Purpose |
|---|---|---|
| Blackbird | Free | Check usernames and email addresses on websites and social networks |
| Have I Been Pwned? | Free | Does an email address appear in data breaches? |
| holehe | Free | holehe allows you to check if the mail is used on different sites like twitter, instagram and will retrieve information on sites with the forgotten password function. |
| Intelx.io | Partial | Find user details in data breaches |
| Namechk | Free | A username and domain search tool that checks on which platforms or domain a given username is registered. |
| Open Measures | Partial | Open Measures helps open source researchers investigate harmful online activity such as extremism and disinformation. |
| Sherlock | Free | Allows a user to search for the presence of specific usernames across more than 400 websites and social networks. |
| Skopenow | Paid | Social Media Investigations - name, phone, email, username searches |
| Social-searcher | Partial | Search hashtags and usernames across various platforms. |
| WhatsMyName | Free | Search for usernames on several hundred platforms |
| [Zeeschuimer]() | Free | Zeeschuimer is a browser extension for collecting social media posts that are visible in your web browser, enabling systematic analysis of content from platforms that are hard to scrape via APIs. |
Other Platforms
| Tool | Cost | Purpose |
|---|---|---|
| 4plebs | Free | Searchable archive of specific 4chan boards. Makes it possible to read threads after they are purged from 4chan. |
| Blackbird | Free | Check usernames and email addresses on websites and social networks |
| BskyFollowFinder | Free | A tool that identifies which Bluesky accounts are followed by a profile’s contacts but not by that profile. Can be used for expanding networks and social graph analysis. |
| BskyThreadReader | Free | BskyThreadReader is a web-based Bluesky thread viewer that allows anyone to read and share Bluesky threads without logging in. |
| Disboard | Free | Search for public discord servers |
| Discord Chat Exporter | Free | A tool for exporting Discord chat logs in multiple formats. |
| DiscordLeaks | Free | Search hundreds of thousands of messages leaked from 290+ white-supremacist / nazi discord servers. |
| F5Bot | Free | Sends you an email when a keyword is mentioned on Reddit. |
| FindClone | Free | Searches images from VK profiles (within certain limits) |
| Google Account Finder (EPIEOS) | Free | Find the profile picture and public Google Map Reviews + Photos associated with a G-mail adress. Also checks for phone numbers, and checks for email addresses on social networks |
| Gravatar Email Checker | Free | Check if an email address has been used to comment on blogs and whether there is a profile image attached. |
| LinkdTime | Free | Build a clean timeline of any LinkedIn activity from a single URL or a whole list of links. |
| NameMC | Free | Find usernames, track username changes on minecraft |
| Open Measures | Partial | Open Measures helps open source researchers investigate harmful online activity such as extremism and disinformation. |
| Photo-Map.RU | Free | Geotagged VK posts. |
| PSNprofiles | Free | Search PlayStation username, see daily activity, games played, country, and profile pic |
| Sherlock | Free | Allows a user to search for the presence of specific usernames across more than 400 websites and social networks. |
| Snap Map | Free | Searchable map of geotagged snaps. |
| SteamId.uk | Partial | Lookup player names, view (more) previously used names, and when accounts befriended eachother (Free). View screenshots of account, (bulk) seach based on previously used names (paid). |
| Strava | Partial | Social media fitness app with exercise map based on users' GPS data. |
| Vk.watch | Free | See public comments left by an account, profile photos used, and very basic facial recognition |
| XboxGamertag | Free | Search gamertags, see games played and recorded game clips |
Telegram
| Tool | Cost | Purpose |
|---|---|---|
| Intelligence X Telegram Search | Free | Google-based search engine for Telegram (includes Telegago) |
| Open Measures | Partial | Open Measures helps open source researchers investigate harmful online activity such as extremism and disinformation. |
| Telegago | Free | Telegago is a Google Custom Search Engine tailored for searching public Telegram content for OSINT purposes. |
| Telegram Group Joiner | Free | Automate joining multiple Telegram groups and channels, ideal for researchers monitoring specific topics. |
| Telegram Phone Number Checker | Free | Command line tool for checking if phone numbers are connected to Telegram accounts and retrieving related information where available. |
| TelegramDB | Partial | TelegramDB is a searchable database service that allows users to explore public Telegram groups and channels via a dedicated bot. |
| Telemetrio | Partial | Telemetr.io offers a range of Telegram-related services based on a catalog of Telegram channels: country and category-specific rankings, curated collections, real-time event tracking, and an API. |
| Telemetry | Partial | An analytical search tool for Telegram groups and channels. |
| Telepathy | Free | Telepathy is a versatile Telegram toolkit for OSINT analysts, enabling chat archiving, memberlist gathering, user location lookup, top poster analysis, message mapping, and more. |
| TGStat | Partial | TGStat is a web-based analytics tool for Telegram that monitors active channels and provides profile analytics and statistics. It tracks channel subscribers’ growth rate, reach, and citation index. |
| tlgrm.eu channels | Free | Search Telegram channels. |
Tiktok
| Tool | Cost | Purpose |
|---|---|---|
| Bellingcat TikTok Date Extract | Free | Get the exact upload date + time for tiktok video urls |
| Bellingcat TikTok Hashtag Analysis | Free | Archive content and metadata from TikTok posts that contain one or more specified hashtags |
| Open Measures | Partial | Open Measures helps open source researchers investigate harmful online activity such as extremism and disinformation. |
| TikTokApi | Free | Python - This is an unofficial api wrapper for TikTok.com in python. With this api you are able to call most trending and fetch specific user information as well as much more. |
Twitter/X
| Tool | Cost | Purpose |
|---|---|---|
| Hoaxy | Partial | Hoaxy is a web-based search and visualization tool. It helps visualize the spread of information on Bluesky and X (Twitter). |
| Twitter Video Downloader | Free | Download videos from X (formerly Twitter) by converting tweet URLs into downloadable video links. |
| Twitter/X Advanced Search | Free | Twitter/X Advanced Search is X's own tool to help users find more precise information on the platform by filtering posts according to criteria such as location, user, date or popularity. |
| Twitter/X Location Search | Free | Search for geocoded tweets by their distance from some coordinates. |
Youtube
| Tool | Cost | Purpose |
|---|---|---|
| Ghunt | Free | A command line tool for obtaining information about Google accounts. |
| MW Geofind | Free | MW Geofind is a tool designed to help users identify the filming location of YouTube videos, facilitating the exploration of global content from a geographical perspective. |
| RadiTube | 000 videos | A search engine that searches the subtitles of about 380 (right/left) radical YouTube channels. You query for example for q says" of "voter fraud" in 170 |
| YouTube Metadata | Free | An alternative to Amnesty's YT viewer, with slightly more information. |