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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 Platforms A tool from @osintcombine that lets you search for popular social media platforms by country.
- GoFindWho 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, so be sure to follow them for updates.
- EffectGroup 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 Toolkit Provides easy to use tools for Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, Reddit, SnapChat, YouTube, Periscope, Twitch, Google+, LinkedIn and more.
- SMAT 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 Find geotagged posts from five social networks at once on one map. Includes Twitter, YouTube, Instagram, Flickr and Vkontakte.
- Export Comments 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 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.
- FindMyFBID 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-Searcher 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.
- Shreateh Social Media Tools A large collection of SOCMINT tools for Facebook, YouTube, Instagram, Twitter and TikTok.
- Kriburm A Russian site that act as a search engine for different social media platforms. Includes filters by author and time period.
- AussieFinder Search 5 different social media networks at once for Australian citizens. Uses a Google CSE.
- Social Salary Calculator Calculate how much views or followers you would need to match a current salary. Almost useless, but still worth mentioning because its neat.
- SignalHire An interesting tool that helps you find emails and phone numbers. Requires a paid subscription.
- SocialNetworkHarvester A great tool that allows you to gather, analyze and visualize data. Requires a paid subscription.
- Clubhouse
- ClubhouseDB A free Clubhouse analytics tool. Find the most followed users and clubs using this database.
- Discord
- 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 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 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!
- Facebook
- OSINT Combine Facebook Tools 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.
- 2019 Facebook Breach Search An .onion site that allows you to search through the full 2019 Facebook data breach. Click here for a clearnet proxy.
- Sowdust Facebook Search This page tries to be a simple interface to show how the current Facebook search function works. Still experimental.
- Search is Back Find people and events on Facebook. Searchable by name, location, relationship, gender, language, and more.
- Facebook Dangerous Individuals and Organizations List A leaked internal document from Facebook that contains their list of dangerous individuals and groups. Worth saving. Archived copies available here (Wayback) and here (archive.today). Original .pdf available [PDF]here. Archived copy available here (Wayback).
- Facebook Law Enforcement Guide Guidelines and resources for law enforcement officials seeking records from Facebook and/or Instagram.
- Flickr
- GitHub
- Gravatar
- Instagram
- SearchMyBio 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.
- ImgInn View Instagram profiles, download photos, videos and stories, watch Instagram stories anonymously.
- InFlact Analyze any public profile on Instagram. Enter a username of any public profile to view profile information, pictures and precise statistics.
- Worldcam 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 Map Takes geo-tagged Instagram posts and plots them on a map. Similar to Worldcam.
- MetaHashtags 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 Instagram profile, post, story viewer and downloader, easily view and download Instagram photo and videos online.
- Dumpor View profiles, reels, stories, followers, following and tagged posts anonymously. Allows you to download posts.
- Bibliogram 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.
- Instadp An online tool that displays full size profile pictures of a user. It also allows you to download photos, videos, stories and reels.
- InstaFollowers A simple tool that allows you to get a Instagram users user ID by searching their username.
- Find Instagram User ID A tool that shows you how to extract an Instagram users information in JSON format.
- iGram Downloader A simple online tool that allows you to download images, videos and IGTV posts via URL.
- Kik Messenger
- Kik User Information 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 Search 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>.
- LinkedIn
- Recruit'em X-Ray Search Recruit'em is a tool that helps you find people on social networks. It creates a basic Boolean string that searches for publicly available web pages using Google.
- Chartloop Get a birds-eye view of an organizations team structure and location. Requires a paid subscription.
- LinkedIn Prospect Boolean Search Designed to help easily build search strings to generate targeted lists of LinkedIn users.
- Mastodon
- NOC Social Search Search for social accounts across multiple Mastodon/Fediverse instances. Discover content and users on this open source social network.
- OnlyFans
- FansMetrics Lets you search for accounts by username and provides metrics and analytics for a given account.
- Parler
- Patreon
- Graphtreon Provides information and statistics for Patreon accounts such as earnings, rank, creation date and more.
- Pinterest
- PinGroupie A massive Group Pinterest board directory with over 29,000 group boards listed. Also has an advanced search function.
- Reddit
- Camas Reddit Archive Search 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 combination of all.
- Reveddit A searchable archive of removed content on Reddit. Search by username, subreddit, link or domain.
- YASIV Reddit Visualization Search for a subreddit and view an interactive chart of related subreddits.
- RedditMetis Enter a username and see recent activity, comment and submission summaries, word cloud, and more interesting stats. Data is generated from the last 1000 comments and submissions.
- The-Eye Subreddit Archive A collection of archived subreddits from the-eye.eu. Includes some NSFW subreddits.
- Reddit Archive A non-searchable historical archive of Reddit posts. Almost useless, but still worth mentioning.
- SnapChat
- Snap Map An interactive map that allows you to view public snaps from a specific location, simply click on a general area.
- Snap Code Search 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. - SnapChat Stories 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 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 A very useful guide for law enforcement when dealing with SnapChat during an investigation. Archived copies can be found here (Wayback) and here (archive.today).
- Skype
- Skype Search Engine Search for Skype users by username, real name or location. Provides profile picture, name, Skype username, country, city, date of birth and live ID.
- Email2Skype 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.
- Spotify
- Chosic Playlist Analyzer Analyze any playlist on Spotify, calculate the "mood", determine favourite genres and favourite artists.
- ChartMasters Streaming Calculator Generate a report of the number of streams from a particular artist's tracks on Spotify. Requires registration.
- Telegram
- Buzz.im Search A tool that allows you to search Telegram channels, messages and authors for a specific string.
- SovaWEB Telegram OSINT Bot A very interesting Russian OSINT bot for Telegram. Search via username, email, IMSI, IMEI, BTS, MSISDN, IP address or BSSID. Click here for a Russian to English translation.
- Telegcrack A search engine for Telegra.ph. You can find the all posts with known title. Currently has around 3,554,101 posts indexed.
- Tgstat One of the largest directories of Telegram channels. Provides detailed information about audience growth, engagements, and mentions of a particular channel in various sources.
- TikTok
- Tinder
- Tinder User Search Use the actual Tinder service to search if a username exists. Example:
https://tinder.com/@username.
- Tumblr
- Tumblr Original Post Finder Find all original posts for any Tumblr blog. You can filter posts by note count or a certain tag.
- Tumblr Tools Collects posts tagged with a specific term from Tumblr and export to a .tab or .gdf file.
- Twitch
- Twitch Tools Download a full list of followers for any Twitch account and export them to a .csv file.
- 2021 Twich Leaked Data 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). Read the official statement from Twitch here.
- Twitch Earnings Lookup Data was taken from the hacked Twitch data that was leaked online on October 6th, 2021. Page archived here (Wayback) and here (archive.today).
- TwitchTools Search streams and filter results by title, game, language, number of viewers. Also provides other useful tools for Twitch.
- Twitter
- TinfoLeak 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 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 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 Spoonbill lets you see profile changes from the people you follow on Twitter. Contains bios, website, locations, and name history.
- Advanced Search on Twitter A nice page that describes the various different search operators that can be utilized on the Twitter advanced search function.
- TweetBeaver A great collection of various tools for preforming Twitter account OSINT. Requires you to be sign into your Twitter account.
- TweetMap Visualize hundreds of millions of tweets in real-time, from the global level all the way down to your neighborhood.
- TrendsMap An interactive map of the current hashtags, users and subject that are trending on Twitter.
- All My Tweets View all tweets, likes, followers or timeline on one page. Great for viewing, searching and saving Twitter info.
- Twiangulate Helps with mapping connections between Twitter friends and followers and provides analytics.
- Twitter Video Downloader A simple online tool that allows you to quickly save videos posted on Twitter. Simply enter the posts URL.
- GeoSocial Footprint Provides an easy way to view a users geo-social footprint by analyzing GPS enabled tweets, social check-ins, natural language location.
- BotSentinel A platform developed to classify and track inauthentic accounts, bots and toxic trolls.
- Sentiment140 A Twitter sentiment analysis tool. Discover the positive and negative opinions about a product or brand. Also has an API available.
- Twubs Follow hashtags, conversations, tweets, photos, videos and more in real-time. Also allows you to participate and host public Twitter chats.
- TweetTunnel 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 Archivist Analytics tool to search, archive, analyze, visualize, save and export tweets based on a search term or hashtag. Requires a paid subscription.
- MyTweetAlerts Search Twitter for the tweets most important to you and receive custom tweet alerts. Requires a paid subscription.
- TweetedAt Extracts the exact date and time from the tweet ID by reverse-engineering the Twitter Snowflake.
- FollowerAudit 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.
- TweetTopicExplorer Retrieves recent tweets and displays the most common words used in those tweets. The larger the circles, the more frequent the word used.
- SleepingTime Find the potential sleeping schedule of a Twitter user. Requires you to log in to a Twitter account.
- FollowerWonk Search Twitter bios, compare users, and analyze location and tweet activity of followers.
- Untappd
- VKontakte
- VSCO
- VSCO Search 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 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.
- YouTube
- YouTube GeoFind Find geo-tagged videos and view them on a map. Sort by username, channel or location.
- Unlisted Video Search A website for submitting, searching for, and watching unlisted YouTube videos.
- Channel Search 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.
- You-TLDR A free tool and bookmarklet that gathers an easy to read "too long, didn't read" (TLDR) transcript of any YouTube video.
- SaveSubs Allows you to convert, edit and download subtitles from YouTube, Facebook, DailyMotion and more for free.
- WhatsApp
- WATools Easily download a WhatsApp profile picture online, check to see if a phone number exists on WhatsApp, and check to see if a user is online or not.
- WhatsApp Reverse Phone Lookup 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 A guide for law enforcement personnel when dealing with and requesting data from WhatsApp.
- WhatsAnalyze An open-source tool that analyzes WhatsApp group messages and provides statistics such as word clouds, timelines, message frequency and more.
- 4chan and 8chan
- Archive Of Sins 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.
- Wakarimasen Archive Searchable archive of various SFW 4chan boards. Basically a clone of the above web site.
- 4plebs 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.
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