Social Media Intelligence [SOCMINT]

A collection of online resources and tools to assist with SOCMINT investigations on a wide range of platforms.

General Social Media Tools

  • World Social Media Platformsarrow-up-right A tool from @osintcombinearrow-up-right that lets you search for popular social media platforms by country.

  • EffectGrouparrow-up-right 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.

  • OnePlus OSINT Toolkitarrow-up-right Provides easy to use tools for Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, Reddit, SnapChat, YouTube, Periscope, Twitch, Google+, LinkedIn and more.

  • SMATarrow-up-right 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.

  • SkyLensarrow-up-right Find geotagged posts from five social networks at once on one map. Includes Twitter, YouTube, Instagram, Flickr and Vkontakte.

  • Export Commentsarrow-up-right 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.

  • Synapsintarrow-up-right 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.

  • RandomToolsarrow-up-right 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.

  • Social-Searcherarrow-up-right 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.

  • SocialBladearrow-up-right Tracks user statistics for YouTube, Twitch, Instagram, and Twitter accounts.

  • Shreateh Social Media Toolsarrow-up-right A large collection of SOCMINT tools for Facebook, YouTube, Instagram, Twitter and TikTok.

  • Kriburmarrow-up-right A Russian site that act as a search engine for different social media platforms. Includes filters by author and time period.

  • AussieFinderarrow-up-right Search 5 different social media networks at once for Australian citizens. Uses a Google CSE.

  • Social Salary Calculatorarrow-up-right Calculate how much views or followers you would need to match a current salary. Almost useless, but still worth mentioning because its neat.

  • SignalHirearrow-up-right An interesting tool that helps you find emails and phone numbers. Requires a paid subscription.

  • SocialNetworkHarvesterarrow-up-right A great tool that allows you to gather, analyze and visualize data. Requires a paid subscription.

  • Tagdefarrow-up-right The "Social Media Dictionary". Helps discover what hashtags mean, also lets you add your own definitions.

  • Alternative Social Platform Searcharrow-up-right 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.

  • IntelTechniques OSINT Toolsarrow-up-right An awesome collection of many different OSINT tools from IntelTechniques. Thanks Mr. Bazzell!

  • PhantomBusterarrow-up-right A cloud-based data extraction tool designed to scrape useful data from Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, Instagram, and more. Allows data export to CSV and JSON formats. Requires a paid subscription.

  • HuntIntelarrow-up-right Find Instagram places, Facebook places, VK photos, public Snapchat stories and Tweets based on location as well as many more features. Requires registration.

Bitmoji

  • BACKMOJIarrow-up-right The Bitmoji avatar history enumerator, simply enter a Bitmoji ID, version (usually the number 5), and a maximum value. Press the “Grab Images!” button and your browser will make “maximum value” requests for the images of that user’s Bitmoji.

Clubhouse

Discord

Facebook

Flickr

GitHub

Gravatar

Instagram

  • SearchUsersarrow-up-right Search for Instagram users by name or username.

  • SearchMyBioarrow-up-right 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.

  • ImgInnarrow-up-right View Instagram profiles, download photos, videos and stories, watch Instagram stories anonymously.

  • InFlactarrow-up-right Analyze any public profile on Instagram. Enter a username of any public profile to view profile information, pictures and precise statistics.

  • Worldcamarrow-up-right Search Instagram by location. Find the latest Instagram photos from places on the other side of the world, or just around the corner.

  • BearPanther Insta Maparrow-up-right Takes geo-tagged Instagram posts and plots them on a map. Similar to Worldcam.

  • MetaHashtagsarrow-up-right 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.

  • Pixwoxarrow-up-right Instagram profile, post, story viewer and downloader, easily view and download Instagram photo and videos online.

  • Dumporarrow-up-right View profiles, reels, stories, followers, following and tagged posts anonymously. Allows you to download posts.

  • Picukiarrow-up-right Search, view and edit Instagram content without having to log in.

  • Gramhirarrow-up-right Search and analyze profiles and hashtags without having to use an account.

  • StoriesDownarrow-up-right Allows you to view and download Instagram stories and posts without an account.

  • Bibliogramarrow-up-right 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. Project has been discontinued. Read more herearrow-up-right.

  • Instadparrow-up-right An online tool that displays full size profile pictures of a user. It also allows you to download photos, videos, stories and reels.

  • InstaFollowersarrow-up-right A simple tool that allows you to get a Instagram users user ID by searching their username.

  • Find Instagram User IDarrow-up-right A tool that shows you how to extract an Instagram users information in JSON format.

  • iGram Downloaderarrow-up-right A simple online tool that allows you to download images, videos and IGTV posts via URL.

  • InstaHuntarrow-up-right Displays Instagram posts in any chosen geographic location.

  • InstaNavigationarrow-up-right View Instagram profiles without registration.

  • Iganonyarrow-up-right View Instagram profiles and download stores and posts without registration.

  • InstaFreeViewarrow-up-right View Instagram profiles anonymously without having to login.

Kik Messenger

  • Kik User Informationarrow-up-right 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.

  • KikMe Username Searcharrow-up-right 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>.

  • KikUsernamesarrow-up-right Search for Kik usernames.

LinkedIn

Mastodon

OnlyFans

Parler

Patreon

  • Graphtreonarrow-up-right Provides information and statistics for Patreon accounts such as earnings, rank, creation date and more.

Pinterest

Reddit

SnapChat

Skype

  • Epieos Skype Lookuparrow-up-right Find Skype users via email address, phone number or username.

  • Skypliarrow-up-right Appears to be broken. Gives 500 errors upon searching as of 15/11/2021. Keeping this link here in case it starts working again.

  • Email2Skypearrow-up-right 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.

  • Skype Avatararrow-up-right Replace the username section of this URL to a target username and receive their profiles avatar.

Spotify

Telegram

TikTok

Tinder

Tumblr

Twitch

Twitter/X

  • TinfoLeakarrow-up-right 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.

  • AccountAnalysisarrow-up-right 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.

  • Nitterarrow-up-right 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 Searcharrow-up-right Spoonbill lets you see profile changes from the people you follow on Twitter. Contains bios, website, locations, and name history.

  • Advanced Search on Twitterarrow-up-right A nice page that describes the various different search operators that can be utilized on the Twitter advanced search functionarrow-up-right.

  • TruthNestarrow-up-right Analytics and statistics for a Twitter account. Requires you to login.

  • TweetBeaverarrow-up-right A great collection of various tools for preforming Twitter account OSINT. Requires you to be sign into your Twitter account.

  • TweetMaparrow-up-right Visualize hundreds of millions of tweets in real-time, from the global level all the way down to your neighborhood.

  • OneMillionTweetMaparrow-up-right A tool used to visualize tweets and aggregated Twitter data in a world map.

  • TrendsMaparrow-up-right An interactive map of the current hashtags, users and subject that are trending on Twitter.

  • All My Tweetsarrow-up-right View all tweets, likes, followers or timeline on one page. Great for viewing, searching and saving Twitter info.

  • Twiangulatearrow-up-right Helps with mapping connections between Twitter friends and followers and provides analytics.

  • Twitter Video Downloaderarrow-up-right A simple online tool that allows you to quickly save videos posted on Twitter. Simply enter the posts URL.

  • Shadowban Testarrow-up-right Allows you to check is a Twitter user is "shadowbanned" or not.

  • GeoSocial Footprintarrow-up-right Provides an easy way to view a users geo-social footprint by analyzing GPS enabled tweets, social check-ins, natural language location.

  • BotSentinelarrow-up-right A platform developed to classify and track inauthentic accounts, bots and toxic trolls.

  • Sentiment140arrow-up-right A Twitter sentiment analysis tool. Discover the positive and negative opinions about a product or brand. Also has an API available.

  • Twubsarrow-up-right Follow hashtags, conversations, tweets, photos, videos and more in real-time. Also allows you to participate and host public Twitter chats.

  • TweetTunnelarrow-up-right 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.

  • Tweet Archivistarrow-up-right Analytics tool to search, archive, analyze, visualize, save and export tweets based on a search term or hashtag. Requires a paid subscription.

  • MyTweetAlertsarrow-up-right Search Twitter for the tweets most important to you and receive custom tweet alerts. Requires a paid subscription.

  • TweetsMaparrow-up-right AI powered Twitter analytics. Requires a paid subscription.

  • TweetedAtarrow-up-right Extracts the exact date and time from the tweet ID by reverse-engineering the Twitter Snowflakearrow-up-right.

  • FollowerAuditarrow-up-right 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.

  • TweetTopicExplorerarrow-up-right Retrieves recent tweets and displays the most common words used in those tweets. The larger the circles, the more frequent the word used.

  • SleepingTimearrow-up-right Find the potential sleeping schedule of a Twitter user. Requires you to log in to a Twitter account.

  • FollowerWonkarrow-up-right Search Twitter bios, compare users, and analyze location and tweet activity of followers.

  • BirdHuntarrow-up-right A great query building tool that allows you to select a location and radius and get a list of recent tweets from that location.

  • Vicinitas Twitter Exporterarrow-up-right A free tool that allows you to export followers, tweets and keywords to an XLSX file.

  • Twitter Image Searcharrow-up-right This Google CSE allows you to search for images posted on Twitter via keywords.

  • Botometerarrow-up-right Botometer (formerly BotOrNot) checks the activity of a Twitter account and gives it a score. Higher scores mean more bot-like activity. Requires Twitter authentication.

  • twtDataarrow-up-right Extract a list of Twitter followers and/or followings for any account.

  • Allegedlyarrow-up-right Allows you to check information about Twitter profiles such as times of posting, devices and apps used to sign-in and repetition of tweets. All without the need to login.

  • SocialBearingarrow-up-right Provides insights and analytics for a Twitter user, hashtag, tweets and more.

  • TweeViewarrow-up-right A tool to visualize Twitter conversations in a tree-style way.

  • IntelX Twitter Searcharrow-up-right A great Twitter search engine offered by IntelX.

  • memory.lolarrow-up-right Provides historical information about social media accounts. It can currently be used to look up over 542 million historical screen names for 443 million Twitter accounts. Example: https://memory.lol/tw/USERNAME-HERE. See this projects GitHub pagearrow-up-right for more information.

  • Shadowban Testarrow-up-right A simple tool to test if a Twitter account has been "shadowbanned".

  • Orbitarrow-up-right Enter a username and view who is in their "orbit". Useful tool for finding a POIs friends.

  • OSoMe Network Toolarrow-up-right Explore how information spreads across Twitter with an interactive network using the OSoMe decahose archive.

  • TweeterIDarrow-up-right Type in any Twitter ID or @handle, and it will be converted into the respective ID or username.

  • GigaTweeterarrow-up-right Monitor Twitter topics and accounts without having to login.

  • ExportDataarrow-up-right Export historical tweets, download lists of followers and followings from any public account.

  • TrueTNarrow-up-right Allows you to view accounts, cached/archived tweets, metrics and easily download image and video posts. Appears to only work correctly if the target account has been archived on the Wayback Machine. Example: https://truetn.com/ENTER-USERNAME-HERE.

  • PerplexitySQLarrow-up-right Perplexity SQL answers Twitter graph queries by translating natural language to SQL code. Note, not all Twitter users are available as their database is currently incomplete.

Untappd

VKontakte

VSCO

  • VSCO Searcharrow-up-right 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 Pagearrow-up-right 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.

WhatsApp

Wikipedia

YouTube

4chan and 8chan

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