100+ Top OSINT Tools

AI

• ChatGPT  (useful in many ways; addictive!) (I could also list it under some categories below since it can perform numerous functions)
• Compare with Google

Images:

• DALL-E2
• MidJourney (upload an image) (best in images AI; addictive!)
• Stable Diffusion
• Deep Dream Generator (based on Stable Diffusion)

Video:

• AI Studio

Organize Extensions in Chrome

• Extensity

Media-Related   

• Google Advanced Image Search (use for the “face” and “photo” options)
• Reverse Image Search on Yandex
• Search by Image (Google, Bing, Yandex & others)
• Searchbyimage.app
• Pimeyes – reverse image search with face recognition; scary good ($)
• Youtube Metadata
• To download a YouTube video, remove the “ube” within the URL

Scroll and Open

• Autopagerize
• ScrollToBottom
• LinkClump – open multiple URLs

Web Content

Writing

• Grammarly
• Idea Generator (perhaps superseded by ChatGPT)

Writing job posts

• Textio  (subscription)
• Jobint
• Gender Decoder

Our Sourcing Tool

• SocialList.io  – find and export lists of public Social Profiles precisely matching your requirements (no need for Boolean). Monthly subscription, one-week trial  

Scraping, Parsing, Filtering, and Sorting

• Outwit Docs – an application; download files from a search
• Outwit Hub – an application ($). It parses and collects data on web pages with lists of similar entries (but get a fast computer)
• Julia’s Online Email Extractor  – paste text in the box, extract email addresses (for PDFs)
• Julia’s EmailExtractor   – Chrome Extension – collect email addresses from all the pages you visit
• Instant Data Scraper  by Webrobots.io – does a great job out-of-the-box
• Data Miner – scraper with a visual UI
• PhantomBuster – scrapers for LinkedIn and Facebook, automation scripts (low volume is free)
• ScrapeStorm – downloadable, configurable scraping app (low volume is free)
• Linked Helper – automation tool; works as a scraper (trial, subscription)
• Dux-Soup – automation tool; works as a scraper (subscription)
• SQL query generator – get detailed info on StackOverflow users

Social Lookup & Contact Info

• Clearbit – professional data enrichment
• GlossaryTech – highlights and explains technical terms on a resume
• OctoHR – shows the programming languages for a user on Github
• Intelligence_X OSINT Tools
• Google’s Mobile-friendly page test – allows you to see public LinkedIn pages in incognito
• https://translate.yandex.com/translate – allows you to see public LinkedIn pages in incognito
• Hunter – has a database of email addresses found on the web (and it tells us where)
• phonebook.cz – get long random lists of emails at companies
• EmailOnGithub–  – what it says
• SeekOut – (freemium) for upload and cross-referencing
• SeekOut – aggregator ($)
• Indeed.com Search Operators
• SalesQL  – LinkedIn or X-Ray (my favorite contact finder!) Bulk URL upload.
• ContactOut – LinkedIn (2nd best for me)
• RocketReach – various
• scraypa.com – LinkedIn; trial
• Skype_to_email, Email_to_skype
• scylla.sh – leaked accounts
• Truepeoplesearch  – phone numbers
• Epieos Email and Phone Lookup 
• US Voters
• HowManyOfMe (US)
• Reddit Search
• EZlocal – find location names
• qgis.org – find location names

Contact Verification

• Spydialer – verify phone numbers
• carrierlookup.com (one free search per day)
• freecarrierlookup.com 
• Caller ID database: opencnam.com (worldwide)
• Caller ID database: phonevalidator.com (US)
• verify-email.org
• verifyemailaddress.org
• haveibeenpwned.com
• hunter.io/email-verifier
• mass email verification from gmass

Social Media Monitoring

• Google Alerts
• Job alerts – Indeed, SimplyHired, Google Jobs

URL analysis

• godaddy.com/whois – data for non-European sites
• whoisology.com – an archive of all whois records
• Reverse Whois Lookup
• urlscan.io
• Open Link Profiler – find backlinks

LinkedIn-friendly Boolean Builder by Sourcing Certifications

Company Research and Datasets

• PeopleDataLabs Companies
• PeopleDataLabs Job Titles
• AIHIT

Country-specific information

Relocate.Me 

Custom Search Engines

I have created a set of advanced custom search engines  for Sourcing – feel free to include them in your practice.

Diversity CSE

Find full CSE coverage in the unique CSE book we wrote

Search Engines

• Google – complete list of 21 operators
• ChatGPT for Google
• Yandex – best reverse Image search
• StartPage – anonymized Google results

Search “from elsewhere”

• SurfShark – VPN
• TunnelBear – VPN
• SEO Search Simulator by NightWatch
• usearchfrom.com – search from a different location and device

• Events
• Jobs
• Dataset Search
• Hotels
• Podcasts
• medical information
• fitness activities you can do at home

Topical Searches

• Amazon advanced book search
• programmableweb.com – API search
• Namechk – username search across networks
• whatsmyname – username search across networks
• searchcode.com – search in software code across platforms

General Tools

Record yourself

• Loom

Translate

• Deepl

OCR

• Google Drive
• Google Cloud OCR recognizes formatting
• Yandex Image automatically OCRs when you search by image
• So does Google search by image now, too

Simple Image Editing

• PicPick (has a “blur” function)

Second Chrome to run

• Canary

Formats

• URL Decoder/Encoder
• JSON to CSV Converter
• Merge Excel files (merge LinkedIn Recruiter exports)
• Split Excel files (prepare to upload to LinkedIn Recruiter, 200 at a time)
• Base64 Encode and Decode

Social Tools

Social Media Automation

• Buffer – manage content sharing; limited free use
• If This Then That (IFTTT)
• Zapier
• TweetDeck (part of Twitter)

Other lists of tools

• Martin Freeman’s List
• Awesome Recruitment
• Glossarytech List
• WizardSourcer List
• Dean Da Costa’s start.me pages
• Michael Bazzell’s Tools (back online)
• OSINT tools collection by @cyb_detective has some unique stuff

Recommended content

• Sourcing Certifications Newsletter (on pause; read this blog, please)
• Hung Lee’s Recruiting Brainfood (I always read it)
• lecoledurecrutement.fr (in French)
• Week in OSINT
• 10-minute tips from OSINTCurious
• For those who are new to sourcing, I recommend a new book by Kasia Tang and Karolina Latus, “Super Source Me”

For classes on Tools please check out:

• Web Scraping for Recruiters 
• Become a Custom Search Engines Expert
• Advanced Google and LinkedIn for #OSINT Research