OSINT RESOURCES

General Search

The main search engines used by users.

Advangle
Aol
Ask
Bing
Better Search
Dothop
DuckDuckGo - an Internet search engine that emphasizes protecting searchers' privacy.
Factbites
Gigablast
Goodsearch
Google Search - Most popular search engine.
Instya
Impersonal.me
iSEEK Education
ixquick
Lycos
Parseek (Iran)
Peeplo
Search.com
SurfCanyon
Teoma
Wolfram Alpha
Yahoo! Search -

↑ Main National Search Engines

Localized search engines by country.

Alleba (Philippines) - Philippines search engine
Baidu (China) - The major search engine used in China
Daum (South Korea)
Eniro (Sweden)
Goo (Japan)
Najdsi (Slovenia)
Naver (South Korea)
Onet.pl (Poland)
Orange (France)
Parseek (Iran)
SAPO (Portugal)
Search.ch (Switzerland)
Walla (Israel)
Yandex (Russia)

↑ Meta Search

Lesser known and used search engines.

↑ Specialty Search Engines

Search engines for specific information or topics.

↑ Visual Search and Clustering Search Engines

Search engines that scrape multiple sites (Google, Yahoo, Bing, Goo, etc) at the same time and return results.

Carrot2 - Organizes your search results into topics.
Cluuz - Generates easier to understand search results through graphs, images, and tag clouds.
Yippy - Search using multiple sources at once

Similar Sites Search

Find websites that are similar. Good for business competition research.

Google Similar Pages
SimilarPages - Find pages similar to each other
SimilarSites - Discover websites that are similar to each other
SitesLike - Find similar websites by category

↑ Document and Slides Search

Search for data located on PDFs, Word documents, presentation slides, and more.

↑ Pastebins

Find information that has been uploaded to Pastebin.

Custom Pastebin Search - A custom search page that indexes 57 different paste sites.
PasteLert - PasteLert is a simple system to search pastebin.com and set up alerts (like google alerts) for pastebin.com entries.

↑ Code Search

Search by website source code

CoCaBu - Search engine that augments user query into code-friendly for retrieving precise examples.
FaCoY - Search engine that retrieves code examples that are syntactically and semantically similar.
NerdyData - Search engine for source code.
SearchCode - Help find real world examples of functions, API's and libraries across 10+ sources.

↑ Major Social Networks

↑ Real-Time Search, Social Media Search, and General Social Media Tools

Social Media Tools

↑ Twitter

↑ Facebook

↑ Google+

↑ Instagram

↑ Pinterest

↑ Reddit

Tools to help discover more about a reddit user or subreddit.

Imgur - The most popular image hosting website used by redditors.
Metareddit - Explore various subreddits.
Mostly Harmless - Mostly Harmless looks up the page you are currently viewing to see if it has been submitted to reddit.
Reddit Archive - Historical archives of reddit posts.
Reddit Suite - Enhances your reddit experience.
Reddit Investigator - Investigate a reddit users history.
Reddit Metrics - Keeps track of the growth of a subreddit.
Reddit User Analyser - reddit user account analyzer.
SnoopSnoo - Provides reddit user and subreddits analytics.
Subreddits - Discover new subreddits.
Reddit Comment Search - Analyze a reddit users by comment history.

↑ VKontakte

Perform various OSINT on Russian social media site VKontakte.

Дезертир
Barkov.net
Find Face - Search for people on VK by photo.
Report Tree
Social Stats
Spotlight
Snradar - Search pictures by time and location they were taken
Target Hunter
Target Log
VK5
VK Community Search
VK Parser - A tool to search for a target audience and potential customers.
VK People Search
VK to RSS Appspot

↑ Tumblr

Searchlr - Search engine for tumblr posts.
Tumblr Search

↑ LinkedIn

FTL - Browser plugin that finds emails of people's profiles in LinkedIn.

↑ Blog Search

↑ Forums and Discussion Boards Search

↑ Username Check

Check User Names
Custom Username Tools
Gaddr - Scan 50+ different websites for usernames.
Knowem - Search for a username on over 500 popular social networks.
Name Chk
Name Checkr
User Search

↑ People Investigations

411 (US)
192 (UK)
Alumni.net
Ancestry
Canada411
Cedar
Charlie App
Classmates
CrunchBase
Custom Person Search Tools
CVGadget
Data 24-7
Gaddr
facesearch - Search for images of a person by name.
Family Search
Family Tree Now
Federal Bureau of Prisons - Inmate Locator (US) - Find an inmate that is in the Federal Bureau of Prisons system.
Fold3 (US Military Records) - Browse records of US Military members.
Forebears
Genealogy Bank
Genealogy Links
Hey Press (Search for Journalists)
Homemetry
Infobel
Infospace White Pages
Interment
International White and Yellow Pages
Itools
Kompass
LookUpUK
Lullar
MarketVisual
MelissaDATA
My Life People Search
The National Archives (UK)
PeekYou
People Search (Australia)
PeopleSearch.net
Pipl
Rapportive
RecordsPedia
Recruitem
Reunion
Rootsweb
SearchBug
Skip Ease
snitch.name
SnoopStation
Spokeo
Switchboard
That’sThem
USSearch
WebMiii
White Pages (US)
Wink
Yasni
Zabasearch
Zoominfo

↑ E-mail Search / E-mail Check

Breach OR Clear
Custom Email Search Tools
BriteVerify Email Verification
Email Address Validator
Email Format
EmailHippo
Email Hunter
Email Permutator+
Emails4corporations
EmailSearch.net
Email Validator
Email Validator Tool
Have I Been Pwned - Search across multiple data breaches to see if your email address has been compromised.
MailTester
Peepmail
Pipl
ReverseGenie
TCIPUTILS.com Email Test
ThatsThem
Toofr
Verify Email
VoilaNorbert - Find anyone's contact information for lead research or talent acquisition.

↑ Phone Number Research

National Cellular Directory - was created to help people research and reconnect with one another by performing cell phone lookups. The lookup products includes have billions of records that can be accessed at any time, as well as free searches one hour a day, every day.
NumSpy-API - find details of any mobile number in india for free and get a JSON formated output, inspired by NumSpy.
Reverse Phone Lookup - Detailed information about phone carrier, region, service provider, and switch information.
Spy Dialer - Get the voicemail of a cell phone & owner name lookup.
Twilio - Look up a phone numbers carrier type, location, etc.
Phone Validator - Pretty accurate phone lookup service, particularly good against Google Voice numbers.

↑ Expert Search

↑ Company Research

↑ Job Search Resources

↑ Q&A Sites

↑ Domain and IP Research

Accuranker
ahrefs - A tool for backlink research, organic traffic research, keyword research, content marketing & more.
Alexa
Bing Webmaster Tools
BuiltWith
Central Ops
Custom Domain Search Tools
Custom IP Address Search Tools
Dedicated or Not
DNSDumpster
DNS History
DNSStuff
DNSViz
Domain Big Data
Domain Crawler
Domain Dossier
Domain History
Domain Tools - Whois lookup and domain/ip historical data.
Easy whois
Exonera Tor - A database of IP addresses that have been part of the Tor network. It answers the question whether there was a Tor relay running on a given IP address on a given date.
Follow.net
GraphyStories
HypeStat
Infosniper
intoDNS
IP Checking
IP Location
IP 2 Geolocation
IP 2 Location
IPFingerprints
IPVoid - IP address toolset.
IntelliTamper
Kloth
NetworkTools
Majestic
MaxMind
MXToolbox - MX record lookup tool.
Netcraft Site Report
OpenLinkProfiler
Open Site Explorer
PageGlimpse
Pentest-Tools.com
PhishStats
Pulsedive
Quantcast
Quick Sprout
RedirectDetective
Remote DNS Lookup
Robtex
SameID
SecurityTrails - API to search current and historical DNS records, current and historical WHOIS, technologies used by sites and whois search for phone, email, address, IPs etc.
SEMrush
SEO Chat Tools
SEOTools for Excel
Similar Web - Compare any website traffic statistics & analytics.
SmallSEOTools
StatsCrop
Squatm3gator - Enumerate available domains generated modifying the original domain name through different cybersquatting techniques
TCPIPUTILS.com
urlQuery
URLVoid - Analyzes a website through multiple blacklist engines and online reputation tools to facilitate the detection of fraudulent and malicious websites.
Wappalyzer
WebMeUp
Website Informer
WhatIsMyIPAddress
Who.is - Domain whois information.
Whois Arin Online
WhoIsHostingThis
WhoisMind
Whoisology
WhoIsRequest
w3snoop
Verisign
ViewDNS.info
You Get Signal

↑ Keywords Discovery and Research

Google Adwords - Get monthly keyword volume data and stats.
Google Keyword Suggest Tool
Google Trends - See how many users are searching for specific keywords.
Keyword Discovery
Keyword Spy
KeywordTool
One Look Reverse Dictionary
Word Tracker
Soovle
Ubersuggest

↑ Web History and Website Capture

Archive.is
BlackWidow
CashedPages
CachedView
Screenshots.com
Wayback Machine - Explore the history of a website.
Wayback Machine Archiver

↑ Language Tools

2lingual
Apertium
Babelfish
Bablic
Babylon
Bing Translator
Dict.cn
Dictionary.com: Translation
FreeTranslation
Free Translator
Free Website Translation
Frengly
Gengo
Google Input Tools - Makes it easy to type in the language you choose, anywhere on the web.
Google Translate
Google Tranlslate Extension
IdiomaX Translation
India Typing
imTranslator
iTranslate
iTranslate Voice
Lexicool Translation
Linguee
LingvoSoftOnline
Microsoft Translator
Noslang
OdysseyTranslator
Pleco
PROMT-Online
Reddit/r/translator
Reverso
Slangit
Systran
Translate.com
Unbabel
WorldLingo
WorldReference.com
Yamli (Arabic Search Engine)
Yandex Translate

↑ Image Search

↑ Image Analysis

↑ Stock Images

↑ Video Search and Other Video Tools

Aol Videos
Bing Videos
Blinkx
Clarify
Clip Blast
Custom YouTube Search Tools
DailyMotion
Deturl
DownloadHealper
Earthcam
Frame by Frame - Browser plugin that allows you to watch YouTube videos frame by frame.
Geosearch
Internet Archive: Open Source Videos
LiveLeak
Metacafe
Metatube
Montage
Reverse Image Search Tools
Veoh
Vimeo
Voxalead
Yahoo Video Search
YouTube
YouTube Data Viewer
ccSUBS - Download Closed Captions & Subtitles from YouTube

↑ Radio and Podcasts Tools

↑ Academic Resources and Grey Literature

Academia
Academic Journals
African Journal Online
American Society of Civil Engineers
Base
Bibsonomy
Cambridge Journals
The Collection of Computer Science Bibliographies - The CCSB is a collection of bibliographies of scientific literature in computer science from various sources, covering most aspects of computer science.
Core
Elsevier
Google Scholar
Grey Guide
Grey Literature (HLWIKI International)
Grey Literature – List of Gateways
Grey Literature Report
Grey Literature Strategies
GreyNet International
HighWire: Free Online Full-text Articles
Journal Guide
Journal Seek
JSTOR - Search over 10 million academic journal articles, books, and primary sources.
Lazy Scholar
Leibniz Information Centre For Science and Technology University Library - indexes all reports of German publicly funded projects and many scientific papers.
Microsoft Academic
NRC Research Press
Open Access Scientific Journals
Open Grey
The Open Syllabus Project
Oxford Journals
PubMed - Search more than 27 millions citations for biomedical literature from MEDLINE, life science journals, and online books.
Quetzal Search
Research Gate
SAGE Journals
ScienceDirect
SCIRP
Springer
ScienceDomain
Science Publications
Taylor & Francis Online
Wiley
World Digital Library
World Science
Zetoc

↑ Books and Reading

↑ Geospatial Research and Mapping Tools

↑ News

↑ News Digest and Discovery Tools

↑ Fact Checking

About Urban Legends
Captin Fact
Churnalism
Check
Citizen Desk
Emergent
Fact Check
Full Fact
MediaBugs
Snopes - The definitive Internet reference source for urban legends, folklore, myths, rumors, and misinformation.
Verification Handbook
Verification Junkie
Verily

↑ Data and Statistics

↑ Web Monitoring

AlertBox
Alltop
Awasu
Bridge.Leslibres
Bridge.Suumitsu
ChangeDetect
ChangeDetection
CurioStudio
Deltafeed
DiggReader
Feed43
FeedBooster
Feederator
Feed Exileed
Feed Filter Maker
Feedly
FeedReader
FetchRSS
Flipboard
FollowThatPage
Google Alerts - A content change detection and notification service.
InfoMinder
IQAlerts
Mention
Netvibes
Newsblur
NewsRSSTicker
OmeaReader
OnWebChange
Reeder
RSS Bridge
RSS Feed Reader
RSS Micro
RSS Search Engine
RSS Search Hub
RSSOwl
RSS Subscription Extension
Sage
Selfoss
Silobreaker
Talkwalker
The Old Reader
versionista
visualping
WebReader
WebSite Watcher
Winds

↑ Bookmarking

↑ Startpages

↑ Browsers

Brave
CentBrowser
Chrome
Comodo Dragon
Coowon
Edge
Firefox
Maxthon
Opera
Safari
Sleipnir
Slimjet
SRWare Iron
Tor Browser - Tor is a free software that prevents people from learning your location or browsing habits by letting you communicate anonymously on the Internet.
Torch
UCBrowser
Vivaldi
Yandex Browser

↑ Offline Browsing

A1 Website Download - Download entire websites to disk.
Cyotek WebCopy
gmapcatcher
Hooey webprint
HTTrack - Allows you to download a World Wide Web site from the Internet to a local directory, building recursively all directories, getting HTML, images, and other files from the server to your computer.
Offliberty
Resolver
SiteSucker
WebAssistant
Website Ripper Copier

↑ VPN Services

TorrentFreak List of VPNs

↑ Note-taking

↑ Annotation Tools

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