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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.
- World Social Media Platforms A tool from @osintcombine that lets you search for popular social media platforms by country.
- 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.
- RandomTools 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.
- Tagdef The "Social Media Dictionary". Helps discover what hashtags mean, also lets you add your own definitions.
- Alternative Social Platform 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.
- IntelTechniques OSINT Tools An awesome collection of many different OSINT tools from IntelTechniques. Thanks Mr. Bazzell!
- PhantomBuster 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.
- HuntIntel Find Instagram places, Facebook places, VK photos, public Snapchat stories and Tweets based on location as well as many more features. Requires registration.
- BACKMOJI 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.
- ClubhouseDB A free Clubhouse analytics tool. Find the most followed users and clubs using this database.
- 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!
- Serverse Easily search for Discord servers by keyword using a simple wrapper for Yandex and Google. Made by @jakecreps and @aleksanderrr_.
- Discord ID Creation Date Enter a users ID and view the exact time and date when the account was created.
- Discord Badge Guide A quick reference that explains the various different profile badges you may see on Discord.
- DisTools Enter a server ID and view general information about the server and its users. Will give you an invite code as well if available. Not the best tool, does not seem to work with some Discord servers.
- Public Flag List A list of account flags. These are the
public_flag
codes in the output of a user account.
- 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.
- SOWsearch 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.
- StalkFace This tool allows you to analyze Facebook accounts via URL. This tool is not very affective and doesn't always work, but its still worth mentioning.
- Facebook Image Search A Google CSE where you can search for images posted on Facebook via keywords.
- Lookup-ID A simple tool to get a Facebook ID of a user, group or page. Also provides a few other useful tools.
- Crowdtangle Facebook Video Search A tool from Meta to search for Facebook videos. Requires registration.
- Facebook Ads Library Search all the ads currently running across Meta technologies. To find an ad, search for keywords or an advertiser. The Ad Library also archives ads about social issues, elections or politics for 7 years. Find details about these ads like who paid for them and who the advertiser was targeting. Requires log in.
- Flickr Photopool Contact Network Analyzes Flickr groups and makes a list of usernames of participants.
- 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. Project has been discontinued. Read more here.
- 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 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>
.
- 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.
- Lisearcher Easily find public LinkedIn profiles for candidates or B2B prospects in Google by searching using job title and keywords with boolean search.
- NOC Social Search Search for social accounts across multiple Mastodon/Fediverse instances. Discover content and users on this open source social network.
- Imagstodon Enter a username and search for profile images on over 100 Mastodon instances. Made by @SEINT_pl.
- Fediverse Mapping Project An interactive map of over 120,000 Mastodon instances. Made by @Secjuice.
- FollowGraph Enter a Mastodon username and get a list of accounts followed by the people this profile follows.
- FansMetrics Lets you search for accounts by username and provides metrics and analytics for a given account.
- SimilarFans Search for OnlyFans accounts by category, location or popularity. Also offers reviews and ratings.
- OnlyFans Law Enforcement Guide A guide for law enforcement on what to do when dealing with OnlyFans investigations.
- Parler Archive A searchable data set of the Parler social network. Currently down, keeping this here in case it goes live again.
- Graphtreon Provides information and statistics for Patreon accounts such as earnings, rank, creation date and more.
- PinGroupie A massive Group Pinterest board directory with over 29,000 group boards listed. Also has an advanced search function.
- 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.