A personal, categorized directory of open-source intelligence tools — for lawful public-source research, verification, and privacy education.
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Responsible use. These tools are listed for lawful, ethical OSINT research, journalism, security, and privacy education only. Always respect platform terms of service, applicable law, and the privacy of the people you research. Some links are marked unverified — their exact URL could not be confirmed, so tapping them opens a search instead of a guessed link. Verify before relying on any source.
🚀 Research Launcher
Type a value once, then open it directly in the right public tool. Nothing is looked up here — every button just hands your value to that service's own page, in your own browser. No accounts, no API keys, no data ever touches this site.
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Methodology
01
Define
Clarify the question you're actually trying to answer before opening a single tool.
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Discover
Cast a wide net across search engines, social platforms, and public records.
03
Pivot
Follow each new identifier — email, username, image — to the next data point.
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Verify
Cross-check every claim against at least one independent source.
05
Document
Record sources, timestamps, and methods as you go, not after the fact.
06
Review
Reassess conclusions against new evidence and check for personal bias.
Learning Path
Beginner
Search engine operators, reverse image search, and reading a WHOIS record.
Intermediate
Username correlation, email-based pivoting, and metadata extraction.
Advanced
Infrastructure analysis, breach-data correlation, and operational security.
About OSINT
Open-source intelligence (OSINT) is the practice of collecting and analyzing information from publicly available sources — websites, social media, public records, and more — to answer a specific question. It's used by journalists, researchers, security teams, and investigators, and it depends entirely on using public information responsibly and verifying findings before acting on them.
How this site is built
OSINT Hub is currently a fully static site — one HTML file, no server, no database, no API keys. Every tool card links out to that service's own site, and the Research Launcher above just builds a URL for a public tool to open in your browser; nothing is looked up or stored here. That's intentional: any key placed in client-side JavaScript on a public GitHub Pages site is visible to anyone who views the page source, so authenticated APIs (like HIBP's paid breach-search API) are never wired in directly. Adding those later would mean a small separate backend that holds the API key and rate-limits requests on the site's behalf — the frontend would stay exactly as it is today.