You will find useful blogs and video resources to help with your OSINT journey. Over time, some of the techniques & tradecraft may not work as platofrms change. If you find any that are no longer relevent please feel free to DM. If you are looking for Telegram, It has its own dedicated page.
| Table of Contents |
| Data OSINT |
| Emails & Usernames |
| GeoLocation |
| Google Dorking |
| Social Media |
| Telephone |
| Website OSINT |
| YouTube & Video OSINT |
| Data OSINT |
- Secjuice Leveraging Breach Data for OSINT.
| Emails & Usernames |
- Cyb_Detective When you need search by nickname in public IP addresses search engines.(2023)
- Cqcore Build your own eamil, username,telephone investigation capbility. (2024)
- Kinsta 13 Ways to Find Someone’s Email Address. (2023)
- Nihad Hassan Leveraging OSINT techniques for email investigations. (2024)
- Petro Cherkasets An ultimate mailbox investigation guide. (2023)
- Ronak Sharma OSINT Research Using Spiderfoot (2023)
| GeoLocation |
- Bellingcat Finding Geolocation Leads with Bellingcat's OpenStreetMap Search Tool. (2023)
- BenDoBrown Ben's YouTube Channel.
- Lifewire How to fake a GPS Location on your phone. (2022)
- Siva Sanker How to find exact loaction. (2023)
- Sofia Santos Sofia's YouTube Channel.
- Viktor OSINT Exploring satellite OSINT tools: A deep dive into satellite intelligence. (2023)
| Google Dorking |
- Sofia Santos
- OSINT Team
Filetype: The Best Advanced Search Operator for OSINT Investigations?
From zero to Google Dorking hero: enhancing your OSINT arsenal. (2023)
| Social Media |
| Discord |
- Authentic8 Collecting OSINT on Discord. (2024)
- TOCP Investigating Discord @BOsintBlanc blog on how to investigate and research Discord. (2021)
- Ashar Khalil Search private Facebook profiles for valuable information. (2023)
- CyberRaya Obtain group member infos via TypeScript. (2023)
- Henk van Hess Social search techniques using Facebook. (2023)
- Lifewire How to check if a email or telephone number is linked to a Facebook account (2023).
- Aware-Online View Instagram Profile without logging in. (2021)
- Nixintel How to find timestamps Nixintel's blog on how to find timestamps for verification (2022).
- Nixintel Instagram Osint Nixintel's tutorial on how to install InstaScraper.
- TOCP How to search Instagram part 1 Technisette talks through how to search Instagram, for people, stories, keywords, hashtags, locations (2019).
- TOCP How to search Instagram part 2 Technisette continues her tutorial searching Instagram, for businessess, deleted content and tracking followers (2019).
- Are You Linked in? Blog by Ginger T & Ritu Gill on how to search linked without being locked in (2021).
- Henk van Ess Social search techniques using Linkedin (2023).
| Mastadon |
- The Investigator Blog What you didn't know about Mastaodon Investigations (2023).
- Secjuice Part one in our series on Mastodon, focused on gathering OSINT from the platform's users, instances and network (2022).
| SnapChat |
- Hatlessider Viewing Bitmoji changes.(2022)
- Lifewire The Quick Guide to Snapchat Emoji Meanings.
- TOCP How to use Snapmap and download videos.
- TOCP TOCP 10 Minute Tip, How to download Snapchat videos.
- WebBreacher How to use Backmoji.(2022)
| TikTok |
- Bellingcat Investigate TikTok Like A Pro! (2022).
- BTF_117 OSINT Investigations on TikTok Part 1 (2020).
- BTF_117 OSINT Investigations on TikTok Part 2 (2020).
- Sector035 A Week In OSINT TikTok entries.
- BTF_117 OSINT Investigations on TikTok Part 3 (2020).
- Sinwindle TikTok Targeted OSINT Investigations (2019).
| X |
- Hatless1der Simple methods of getting around Twitter’s annoying login wall (2023).
- Henk van Ess Social search techniques using Twitter (2023).
- Nixintel How to find timestamps Nixintel blog on how to find timestamps for verification (2022).
- Sofia Santos The Hidden Potential of Public Twitter Lists.
| Telephone |
- Aware Online
- Practical OSINT
How to find a Google account by a phone number. (2023)
8 free OSINT tools for phone number investigation.(2024)
| Website OSINT |
- Cyb Detective How to use GoBuster for OSINT? (2023)
- Cyp Detective How to use Python Sitemap Generator for OSINT? (2023)
- Hatless1der OSINT Quick Tips: Beyond WHOIS (2023)
- Joe Hall How to see Google's cache for any page. (2024)
- Karthikeyan Nagaraj Conducting Basic Open-source Intelligence Research on a Website| 2023
- Nixintel Finding Out Who Is Behind A Website.
- Nixintel Nixintel's Website Forensics: How To Detect Editorial Change.
- Nixintel OSINT Techniques: Who’s Behind A WordPress Site?
- Nixintel Search Tip: Finding Historic WhoIs Data.
- Nixintel Website Attribution Without WhoIs – Reverse IP Lookup.
- Nixintel Website Attribution Without WhoIs – Reverse IP Lookups (Part 2)
- Nixintel Website Investigation – Where Did 8Chan Move To?
- Nixintel Website OSINT: What’s The Link Between Antifa.com and Russia?
| YouTube & Video OSINT |
- Aware-Online How to save a Facebook video.
- Aware-Online How to save an Instagram video.
- Aware-Online 5 ways to download a Twitter video.
- OS2INT Analysing Youtube Video Playlist and Channel Metadata.
- TOCP How to downlaod a video from Snapchat Map.