150+ Top Sourcing / #OSINT Tools

Last updated: December 22, 2022

Favorite tools are marked with ❤
Our offerings are marked with ❤❤

Here is a list of tools and resources for all things sourcing and #OSINT. Most of them are easy-to-use and make our lives more convenient, productive, and creative.

Services I offer ❤❤

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Idea Generator (perhaps superseded by ChatGPT)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