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OPEN SOURCE INTELLIGENCE
TOOLS AND RESOURCES HANDBOOK
2020
OPEN SOURCE INTELLIGENCE
TOOLS AND RESOURCES HANDBOOK
2020
Aleksandra Bielska
Noa Rebecca Kurz, Yves Baumgartner, Vytenis Benetis
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Foreword
I am delighted to share with you the 2020 edition of the OSINT Tools and Resources
Handbook. Once again, the Handbook has been revised and updated to reflect the evolution
of this discipline, and the many strategic, operational and technical challenges OSINT
practitioners have to grapple with.
Given the speed of change on the web, some might question the wisdom of pulling together
such a resource. What’s wrong with the Top 10 tools, or the Top 100? There are only so many
resources one can bookmark after all. Such arguments are not without merit. My fear,
however, is that they are also shortsighted. I offer four reasons why.
To begin, a shortlist betrays the widening spectrum of OSINT practice. Whereas OSINT was
once the preserve of analysts working in national security, it now embraces a growing class
of professionals in fields as diverse as journalism, cybersecurity, investment research, crisis
management and human rights. A limited toolkit can never satisfy all of these constituencies.
Second, a good OSINT practitioner is someone who is comfortable working with different
tools, sources and collection strategies. The temptation toward narrow specialisation in
OSINT is one that has to be resisted. Why? Because no research task is ever as tidy as the
customer’s requirements are likely to suggest.
Third, is the inevitable realisation that good tool awareness is equivalent to good source
awareness. Indeed, the right tool can determine whether you harvest the right information. It
follows that the more tools you have in your portfolio, the more flexible your OSINT
capabilities are likely to be.
Finally, the process of compiling this handbook is an intelligence exercise in its own right,
alerting us to where we are at as a community and the challenges we are likely to face going
forward – not least of which are disinformation, the fracturing of the internet, the proliferation
of niche social media platforms, and the urgent need for better tools to monitor and analyse
the content they provide.
Our hope is that this Handbook helps you plug any gaps in your collection efforts and alerts
you to the many tools and resources you can consult for better intelligence, including on the
discipline of OSINT itself. Of course, the Handbook makes no claim to being complete.
Something new will doubtless pop-up tomorrow, and I suspect there are hundreds of tools
we haven’t even come across at all. With your help, we can address any omissions.
In any event, the usual caveats apply. While every effort has been made to test and validate
these resources, we caution that today’s wonder tool may be tomorrow’s security liability.
Thus, whenever testing a new script, application or browser extension, please do so in a
secure environment to minimise any risk to your assets or operations.
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I would like to thank my colleagues at i-intelligence for their efforts in compiling this
Handbook. Much of the credit belongs to Aleksandra Bielska who, as our Head of Training,
evaluates hundreds of tools every year to determine which ones make it into our courses. I
am also indebted to Yves Baumgartner and Vytenis Benetis for routinely updating us on new
solutions. Thanks too are also due to Noa Kurz who worked tirelessly over the summer to
help us get this document ready.
I close by acknowledging the contributions of the many students, practitioners and Twitter
followers we’ve interacted with over the past two years. Your generosity, insights, suggestions
and support are much appreciated.
Chris Pallaris
Director, i-intelligence GmbH
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Table of Contents
Foreword ............................................................................................................................. 3
Search Tools ..................................................................................................................... 17
General Search .......................................................................................................................... 17
Meta Search ............................................................................................................................... 18
Visual Search and Clustering Search Engines ......................................................................... 20
Decentralised Search Engines.................................................................................................. 21
Charitable Search Engines........................................................................................................ 22
Code Search .............................................................................................................................. 23
File and FTP Search ................................................................................................................... 25
Open Database, Directories and Services Search .................................................................. 26
Similar Sites Search ................................................................................................................... 27
Children-Friendly Search Engines ............................................................................................ 28
National Search Engine Directories ......................................................................................... 29
Custom Search........................................................................................................................... 30
Specialty Search Engines .......................................................................................................... 31
Search Tools............................................................................................................................... 32
Social Media ..................................................................................................................... 34
Major Social Networks .............................................................................................................. 34
Social Media Search and Monitoring ...................................................................................... 37
Working with Hashtags ............................................................................................................. 39
Finding Influencers and Other Social Media Users ................................................................ 41
Social Media Management and Content Discovery ............................................................... 42
Social Media Analytics .............................................................................................................. 43
Social Media Tools: Twitter ...................................................................................................... 44
Social Media Tools: Facebook ................................................................................................. 49
Social Media Tools: Instagram ................................................................................................. 51
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