{
  "meta": {
    "title": "OSINT & AI Tools",
    "source": "https://start.me/p/ME0nYA/osint-ai",
    "last_reviewed": "2026-09-23",
    "total": 353,
    "groups": 8,
    "categories": 34,
    "tag_legend": {
      "pick": "Recommended by Open Black Mountain",
      "cli": "Command-line tool",
      "self-hosted": "Can be run on your own machine",
      "api": "Offers a public API"
    },
    "verification": "Links verified live on 2026-09-23: DNS resolution, HTTP reachability, and an NS-record scan for domain-parking providers. Parked domains answer HTTP normally, so reachability alone is not proof a tool still exists."
  },
  "groups": [
    {
      "title": "Image & Video",
      "idx": "01",
      "slug": "image-and-video",
      "count": 52,
      "categories": [
        {
          "title": "Reverse Image",
          "slug": "reverse-image",
          "tools": [
            {
              "title": "Baidu Reverse Image",
              "url": "http://shitu.baidu.com/",
              "desc": "Chinese search engine's reverse image lookup, useful for Asia-region sources.",
              "tags": []
            },
            {
              "title": "Bing Visual Search",
              "url": "https://www.bing.com/?scope=images&nr=1&FORM=NOFORM",
              "desc": "Microsoft's reverse image search, a solid alternative when Google misses a match.",
              "tags": []
            },
            {
              "title": "Google Images",
              "url": "https://images.google.com/?gws_rd=ssl",
              "desc": "The most widely used reverse image search engine.",
              "tags": [
                "pick"
              ]
            },
            {
              "title": "TinEye",
              "url": "https://tineye.com/",
              "desc": "Dedicated reverse image search engine, strong at finding image origin and re-uploads.",
              "tags": [
                "api",
                "pick"
              ]
            },
            {
              "title": "Yandex Images",
              "url": "https://yandex.com/images/",
              "desc": "Russian search engine's image search, best-in-class for facial matches.",
              "tags": [
                "pick"
              ]
            },
            {
              "title": "Google Lens",
              "url": "https://lens.google.com/",
              "desc": "Google's visual search: identifies objects, places, text and products in an image.",
              "tags": [
                "pick"
              ]
            }
          ]
        },
        {
          "title": "Image Forensics",
          "slug": "image-forensics",
          "tools": [
            {
              "title": "Diff Checker (Image)",
              "url": "https://www.diffchecker.com/image-diff/",
              "desc": "Compares two images pixel-by-pixel to spot edits or differences.",
              "tags": []
            },
            {
              "title": "Digital Image Forensic Analyzer",
              "url": "https://www.imageforensic.org/#work",
              "desc": "Runs error-level analysis and other forensic checks on uploaded images.",
              "tags": []
            },
            {
              "title": "EXIF/IPTC/XMP Editor",
              "url": "https://www.imgonline.com.ua/eng/exif-editor.php",
              "desc": "Online editor for viewing and stripping image metadata.",
              "tags": []
            },
            {
              "title": "ExifTool",
              "url": "https://exiftool.org/",
              "desc": "The reference command-line tool for reading and editing image/file metadata.",
              "tags": [
                "pick"
              ]
            },
            {
              "title": "WhatFontIs",
              "url": "https://www.whatfontis.com/",
              "desc": "Identifies a font from an uploaded image sample.",
              "tags": []
            },
            {
              "title": "Forensically",
              "url": "https://29a.ch/photo-forensics/#forensic-magnifier",
              "desc": "Free browser-based photo forensics toolkit (ELA, clone detection, noise analysis).",
              "tags": [
                "pick"
              ]
            },
            {
              "title": "FotoForensics",
              "url": "http://fotoforensics.com/",
              "desc": "Error level analysis tool for spotting image manipulation.",
              "tags": [
                "pick"
              ]
            },
            {
              "title": "Identifont",
              "url": "http://www.identifont.com/index.html",
              "desc": "Identifies typefaces by answering questions about letterforms.",
              "tags": []
            },
            {
              "title": "ImgOps",
              "url": "http://imgops.com/",
              "desc": "Quick toolbox for running an image through multiple analysis services at once.",
              "tags": []
            },
            {
              "title": "Metadata2go",
              "url": "https://www.metadata2go.com/",
              "desc": "Extracts metadata from images, documents, video and audio files.",
              "tags": []
            },
            {
              "title": "Reveal Image Verification",
              "url": "http://reveal-mklab.iti.gr/reveal/index.html",
              "desc": "Forensic tool for verifying whether an image has been tampered with.",
              "tags": []
            },
            {
              "title": "Sensity Deepfake Detection",
              "url": "https://platform.sensity.ai/deepfake-detection",
              "desc": "Commercial platform for detecting deepfakes and synthetic media.",
              "tags": []
            },
            {
              "title": "SunCalc",
              "url": "http://suncalc.org/",
              "desc": "Calculates sun position and shadow direction for any location and date, useful for geolocation verification.",
              "tags": [
                "pick"
              ]
            },
            {
              "title": "WhatTheFont",
              "url": "https://www.myfonts.com/WhatTheFont/",
              "desc": "MyFonts' font-identification tool from an uploaded image.",
              "tags": []
            },
            {
              "title": "Search4Faces",
              "url": "https://search4faces.com/en/",
              "desc": "Facial recognition search against Russian social network VKontakte.",
              "tags": [
                "pick"
              ]
            },
            {
              "title": "Exif.tools",
              "url": "https://exif.tools/",
              "desc": "Simple online viewer for image EXIF metadata.",
              "tags": []
            },
            {
              "title": "Content Credentials Verify",
              "url": "https://contentcredentials.org/verify",
              "desc": "Checks an image for C2PA provenance metadata showing how it was created or edited.",
              "tags": [
                "pick"
              ]
            }
          ]
        },
        {
          "title": "Video",
          "slug": "video",
          "tools": [
            {
              "title": "Internet Archive — Community Video",
              "url": "https://archive.org/details/opensource_movies",
              "desc": "Archive of open-source and community-uploaded video content.",
              "tags": []
            },
            {
              "title": "YouTube Geo Search Tool",
              "url": "http://youtube.github.io/geo-search-tool/search.html",
              "desc": "Searches YouTube videos by location and date range.",
              "tags": []
            },
            {
              "title": "yt-dlp",
              "url": "https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp",
              "desc": "Actively maintained fork of youtube-dl for downloading video/audio from most platforms.",
              "tags": [
                "cli",
                "self-hosted",
                "pick"
              ]
            },
            {
              "title": "inVID",
              "url": "https://www.invid-project.eu/",
              "desc": "Verification toolkit for analysing and fact-checking video content.",
              "tags": [
                "pick"
              ]
            },
            {
              "title": "YouTube Geofind — Location",
              "url": "https://mattw.io/youtube-geofind/location",
              "desc": "Extracts and maps the geolocation attached to YouTube videos.",
              "tags": []
            },
            {
              "title": "Watch Frame by Frame",
              "url": "http://www.watchframebyframe.com/",
              "desc": "Plays YouTube/Vimeo videos frame-by-frame for detailed analysis.",
              "tags": []
            },
            {
              "title": "you-tldr",
              "url": "https://you-tldr.com/",
              "desc": "AI summariser for YouTube video transcripts.",
              "tags": []
            },
            {
              "title": "YouTube Metadata Viewer",
              "url": "https://mattw.io/youtube-metadata/",
              "desc": "Displays the full raw metadata of any YouTube video.",
              "tags": [
                "pick"
              ]
            },
            {
              "title": "Whisper",
              "url": "https://github.com/openai/whisper",
              "desc": "OpenAI's speech recognition model; transcribes audio and video locally without uploading anything.",
              "tags": [
                "cli",
                "self-hosted",
                "pick"
              ]
            }
          ]
        },
        {
          "title": "Webcams",
          "slug": "webcams",
          "tools": [
            {
              "title": "EarthCam",
              "url": "https://www.earthcam.com/",
              "desc": "Directory of public live webcams worldwide, useful for verification and geolocation.",
              "tags": []
            },
            {
              "title": "Insecam",
              "url": "http://insecam.org/",
              "desc": "Directory of publicly (often insecurely) exposed IP cameras by country.",
              "tags": []
            }
          ]
        },
        {
          "title": "AI Multimedia",
          "slug": "ai-multimedia",
          "tools": [
            {
              "title": "Adobe Firefly",
              "url": "https://www.adobe.com/sensei/generative-ai/firefly.html",
              "desc": "Adobe's generative AI for images, text effects and design.",
              "tags": []
            },
            {
              "title": "Canva Magic Studio",
              "url": "https://www.canva.com/es_es/",
              "desc": "AI-powered design suite for graphics, video and presentations.",
              "tags": []
            },
            {
              "title": "CapCut",
              "url": "https://www.capcut.com",
              "desc": "Popular AI-assisted video editing app.",
              "tags": []
            },
            {
              "title": "Craiyon",
              "url": "https://www.craiyon.com/",
              "desc": "Free, simple AI text-to-image generator.",
              "tags": []
            },
            {
              "title": "DALL·E",
              "url": "https://openai.com/dall-e-3",
              "desc": "OpenAI's text-to-image generation model.",
              "tags": []
            },
            {
              "title": "Descript",
              "url": "https://www.descript.com",
              "desc": "AI video/podcast editor that edits media by editing a transcript.",
              "tags": []
            },
            {
              "title": "ElevenLabs",
              "url": "https://elevenlabs.io",
              "desc": "High-quality AI voice generation and cloning platform.",
              "tags": [
                "api"
              ]
            },
            {
              "title": "Freepik",
              "url": "https://freepik.com",
              "desc": "Stock graphics library with integrated AI image generation.",
              "tags": []
            },
            {
              "title": "HeyGen",
              "url": "https://www.heygen.com",
              "desc": "AI avatar and video generation platform for talking-head videos.",
              "tags": []
            },
            {
              "title": "Leonardo.ai",
              "url": "https://leonardo.ai",
              "desc": "AI image generation platform geared toward game and concept art.",
              "tags": []
            },
            {
              "title": "Midjourney",
              "url": "https://www.midjourney.com",
              "desc": "One of the leading AI image-generation models, run via Discord/web.",
              "tags": []
            },
            {
              "title": "Murf",
              "url": "https://murf.ai",
              "desc": "AI text-to-speech voiceover generator.",
              "tags": []
            },
            {
              "title": "Pixlr",
              "url": "https://pixlr.com",
              "desc": "Browser-based photo editor with AI-powered tools.",
              "tags": []
            },
            {
              "title": "Revocalize",
              "url": "https://revocalize.ai",
              "desc": "AI voice cloning and speech synthesis tool.",
              "tags": []
            },
            {
              "title": "Runway",
              "url": "https://runwayml.com",
              "desc": "AI video generation and editing suite (Gen-3 and more).",
              "tags": []
            },
            {
              "title": "Stability AI",
              "url": "https://stability.ai/",
              "desc": "Makers of Stable Diffusion, the open-source text-to-image generation model.",
              "tags": []
            },
            {
              "title": "Suno",
              "url": "https://suno.ai",
              "desc": "AI music generation tool that creates full songs from a text prompt.",
              "tags": []
            },
            {
              "title": "Synthesia",
              "url": "https://www.synthesia.io",
              "desc": "AI avatar video generator for training and marketing videos.",
              "tags": []
            }
          ]
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "title": "Social Media",
      "idx": "02",
      "slug": "social-media",
      "count": 31,
      "categories": [
        {
          "title": "X / Twitter",
          "slug": "x-twitter",
          "tools": [
            {
              "title": "Botometer",
              "url": "https://botometer.osome.iu.edu/",
              "desc": "Scores how likely an X/Twitter account is to be a bot.",
              "tags": []
            },
            {
              "title": "InVID Verification Plugin",
              "url": "http://www.invid-project.eu/verify",
              "desc": "Browser plugin for verifying images and videos shared on social media.",
              "tags": []
            },
            {
              "title": "Trends24",
              "url": "https://trends24.in/",
              "desc": "Tracks and archives worldwide X/Twitter trending topics by hour.",
              "tags": []
            },
            {
              "title": "TweeterID",
              "url": "https://tweeterid.com/",
              "desc": "Converts an X/Twitter username to its numeric account ID and vice versa.",
              "tags": []
            },
            {
              "title": "Twitter/X Advanced Search",
              "url": "https://x.com/search-advanced",
              "desc": "Native advanced search for filtering posts by keyword, date, account and more.",
              "tags": [
                "pick"
              ]
            },
            {
              "title": "TwitterAudit",
              "url": "http://twitteraudit.com/",
              "desc": "Estimates the percentage of fake/inactive followers on an account.",
              "tags": []
            },
            {
              "title": "BirdHunt",
              "url": "https://birdhunt.co/",
              "desc": "Advanced search and monitoring tool for X/Twitter accounts and keywords.",
              "tags": []
            }
          ]
        },
        {
          "title": "Instagram",
          "slug": "instagram",
          "tools": [
            {
              "title": "Instaloader",
              "url": "https://github.com/instaloader/instaloader",
              "desc": "Command-line tool for downloading Instagram posts, stories and profile data.",
              "tags": [
                "cli",
                "self-hosted"
              ]
            },
            {
              "title": "StorySaver",
              "url": "https://www.storysaver.net/",
              "desc": "Downloads Instagram stories and highlights anonymously.",
              "tags": []
            },
            {
              "title": "Picuki",
              "url": "https://www.picuki.com/",
              "desc": "Anonymous Instagram profile and story viewer/editor.",
              "tags": []
            }
          ]
        },
        {
          "title": "TikTok",
          "slug": "tiktok",
          "tools": [
            {
              "title": "TikTok Reverse Image Search",
              "url": "https://search4faces.com/tt00/index.html",
              "desc": "Facial search tool cross-referencing TikTok profile photos.",
              "tags": []
            },
            {
              "title": "TikTokApi (PyPI)",
              "url": "https://pypi.org/project/TikTokApi/",
              "desc": "Python library for scraping public TikTok data.",
              "tags": [
                "cli",
                "self-hosted"
              ]
            }
          ]
        },
        {
          "title": "Telegram",
          "slug": "telegram",
          "tools": [
            {
              "title": "TGStat",
              "url": "http://tgstat.com/",
              "desc": "Analytics platform for searching and tracking Telegram channels.",
              "tags": []
            },
            {
              "title": "IntelX — Telegram Tools",
              "url": "https://intelx.io/tools?tab=telegram",
              "desc": "Search and monitoring tools for Telegram channels via Intelligence X.",
              "tags": []
            },
            {
              "title": "TraceOne",
              "url": "https://traceon.re/",
              "desc": "Keyword search across Telegram channel posts going back to 2021.",
              "tags": []
            }
          ]
        },
        {
          "title": "Snapchat",
          "slug": "snapchat",
          "tools": [
            {
              "title": "Snap Map",
              "url": "http://map.snapchat.com/",
              "desc": "Public map view of geotagged Snapchat Stories.",
              "tags": []
            }
          ]
        },
        {
          "title": "LinkedIn",
          "slug": "linkedin",
          "tools": [
            {
              "title": "LinkedInt",
              "url": "https://github.com/vysecurity/LinkedInt",
              "desc": "Recon tool for enumerating employee names and info from LinkedIn.",
              "tags": [
                "cli",
                "self-hosted"
              ]
            }
          ]
        },
        {
          "title": "Facebook",
          "slug": "facebook",
          "tools": [
            {
              "title": "Find My Facebook ID (piliapp)",
              "url": "https://es.piliapp.com/facebook/id/",
              "desc": "Looks up the numeric Facebook ID behind a username or page.",
              "tags": []
            },
            {
              "title": "Facebook ID Finder (Duplichecker)",
              "url": "https://www.duplichecker.com/find-facebook-id.php",
              "desc": "Alternative tool for finding a Facebook profile's numeric ID.",
              "tags": []
            },
            {
              "title": "FDown — Facebook Video Downloader",
              "url": "https://www.fdown.net/",
              "desc": "Downloads public Facebook videos without an account.",
              "tags": []
            },
            {
              "title": "Lookup-ID",
              "url": "https://lookup-id.com/",
              "desc": "Finds a Facebook account's numeric ID from its profile URL.",
              "tags": []
            },
            {
              "title": "Who Posted What?",
              "url": "http://whopostedwhat.com/",
              "desc": "Searches Facebook posts by keyword and date, bypassing normal search limits.",
              "tags": [
                "pick"
              ]
            }
          ]
        },
        {
          "title": "Reddit",
          "slug": "reddit",
          "tools": [
            {
              "title": "F5Bot — How It Works",
              "url": "http://intoli.com/blog/f5bot/",
              "desc": "Write-up on F5Bot, a free tool that alerts you to new Reddit mentions of a keyword.",
              "tags": []
            }
          ]
        },
        {
          "title": "AI Chat Assistants",
          "slug": "ai-chat-assistants",
          "tools": [
            {
              "title": "Qwen Chat",
              "url": "https://chat.qwen.ai/",
              "desc": "Alibaba's Qwen large language model chat assistant.",
              "tags": []
            },
            {
              "title": "ChatGPT",
              "url": "https://chat.openai.com",
              "desc": "OpenAI's general-purpose AI chat assistant.",
              "tags": []
            },
            {
              "title": "Claude",
              "url": "https://claude.ai",
              "desc": "Anthropic's AI chat assistant, strong at reasoning and long documents.",
              "tags": [
                "pick"
              ]
            },
            {
              "title": "DeepSeek",
              "url": "https://chat.deepseek.com/",
              "desc": "Chinese AI lab's chat assistant, notable for strong reasoning models.",
              "tags": []
            },
            {
              "title": "Gemini",
              "url": "https://gemini.google.com",
              "desc": "Google's multimodal AI chat assistant.",
              "tags": []
            },
            {
              "title": "Grok",
              "url": "http://grok.com",
              "desc": "xAI's chat assistant, integrated with X/Twitter data.",
              "tags": []
            },
            {
              "title": "Microsoft Copilot",
              "url": "https://copilot.microsoft.com",
              "desc": "Microsoft's AI assistant built on OpenAI models.",
              "tags": []
            },
            {
              "title": "Perplexity",
              "url": "https://www.perplexity.ai",
              "desc": "AI answer engine that cites live web sources, useful for research.",
              "tags": [
                "pick"
              ]
            }
          ]
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "title": "Identity & People",
      "idx": "03",
      "slug": "identity-and-people",
      "count": 52,
      "categories": [
        {
          "title": "Username",
          "slug": "username",
          "tools": [
            {
              "title": "Instant Username Search",
              "url": "https://instantusername.com/#/",
              "desc": "Checks username availability/existence across dozens of platforms at once.",
              "tags": []
            },
            {
              "title": "Namecheckr",
              "url": "https://www.namecheckr.com/",
              "desc": "Checks username and domain availability simultaneously across platforms.",
              "tags": []
            },
            {
              "title": "Namechk",
              "url": "http://namechk.com/",
              "desc": "Checks username availability across social media and domains.",
              "tags": []
            },
            {
              "title": "Pipl",
              "url": "http://pipl.com/",
              "desc": "People-search engine aggregating public records and online identities.",
              "tags": []
            },
            {
              "title": "ThatsThem",
              "url": "https://thatsthem.com/",
              "desc": "US people-search engine with address, phone and email lookups.",
              "tags": []
            },
            {
              "title": "UserSearch.org",
              "url": "https://usersearch.org/index.php",
              "desc": "Searches a username across social networks and forums.",
              "tags": []
            },
            {
              "title": "WhatsMyName",
              "url": "https://github.com/WebBreacher/WhatsMyName",
              "desc": "Open-source project and dataset for username enumeration across sites.",
              "tags": [
                "cli",
                "self-hosted"
              ]
            },
            {
              "title": "WhatsMyName Web",
              "url": "https://whatsmyname.app/",
              "desc": "Web front-end for the WhatsMyName username enumeration tool.",
              "tags": [
                "pick"
              ]
            },
            {
              "title": "FaceCheck.ID",
              "url": "https://facecheck.id/",
              "desc": "Facial recognition search engine to find where a face appears online.",
              "tags": [
                "pick"
              ]
            },
            {
              "title": "Blackbird",
              "url": "https://github.com/p1ngul1n0/blackbird",
              "desc": "Searches a username or email across 600+ sites using the community WhatsMyName dataset.",
              "tags": [
                "cli",
                "self-hosted",
                "pick"
              ]
            }
          ]
        },
        {
          "title": "Phone Number",
          "slug": "phone-number",
          "tools": [
            {
              "title": "ABC Telefonos",
              "url": "https://www.abctelefonos.com/",
              "desc": "Spanish phone number lookup and spam/reputation reports.",
              "tags": []
            },
            {
              "title": "CNMC Numbering Lookup",
              "url": "https://numeracionyoperadores.cnmc.es/numeracion",
              "desc": "Spain's telecom regulator database for identifying the operator behind a number.",
              "tags": []
            },
            {
              "title": "Numverify",
              "url": "https://numverify.com/",
              "desc": "API for validating phone numbers and identifying carrier/location.",
              "tags": [
                "api"
              ]
            },
            {
              "title": "Peru Operators Lookup",
              "url": "https://deperu.com/celulares/",
              "desc": "Looks up the carrier behind a Peruvian mobile number.",
              "tags": []
            },
            {
              "title": "PhoneInfoga",
              "url": "https://github.com/sundowndev/phoneinfoga",
              "desc": "OSINT framework for gathering information on international phone numbers. Run it locally; the old hosted demo is gone.",
              "tags": [
                "pick",
                "cli",
                "self-hosted"
              ]
            },
            {
              "title": "Seeker",
              "url": "https://github.com/thewhiteh4t/seeker",
              "desc": "Generates a geolocation-tracking link to identify a target's real-time location.",
              "tags": [
                "cli",
                "self-hosted"
              ]
            },
            {
              "title": "SignalHire",
              "url": "https://www.signalhire.com/",
              "desc": "Finds verified email addresses and phone numbers linked to a professional profile.",
              "tags": [
                "api"
              ]
            }
          ]
        },
        {
          "title": "Email",
          "slug": "email",
          "tools": [
            {
              "title": "MailHeader.org",
              "url": "https://mailheader.org/",
              "desc": "Parses raw email headers to trace origin and routing.",
              "tags": []
            },
            {
              "title": "Email Hippo Verifier",
              "url": "https://tools.emailhippo.com/",
              "desc": "Verifies whether an email address is valid and deliverable.",
              "tags": []
            },
            {
              "title": "Epieos",
              "url": "https://epieos.com/",
              "desc": "Reverse lookup on an email or phone number to surface linked accounts and Google reviews.",
              "tags": [
                "pick"
              ]
            },
            {
              "title": "EmailRep",
              "url": "https://emailrep.io/",
              "desc": "Reputation and risk score lookup for any email address.",
              "tags": [
                "api"
              ]
            },
            {
              "title": "Emkei's Fake Mailer",
              "url": "https://emkei.cz/",
              "desc": "Sends test emails with spoofed headers, useful for phishing research.",
              "tags": []
            },
            {
              "title": "Gravatar Email Check",
              "url": "https://en.gravatar.com/site/check/",
              "desc": "Checks whether an email address has an associated Gravatar profile.",
              "tags": []
            },
            {
              "title": "Guerrilla Mail",
              "url": "https://www.guerrillamail.com/#/inbox",
              "desc": "Disposable, temporary email inbox for anonymous sign-ups.",
              "tags": []
            },
            {
              "title": "Have I Been Pwned?",
              "url": "https://haveibeenpwned.com/",
              "desc": "Checks whether an email or password has appeared in a known data breach.",
              "tags": [
                "api",
                "pick"
              ]
            },
            {
              "title": "Hunter.io",
              "url": "https://hunter.io/",
              "desc": "Finds and verifies professional email addresses by domain or name.",
              "tags": [
                "api",
                "pick"
              ]
            },
            {
              "title": "Google Message Header Tool",
              "url": "https://toolbox.googleapps.com/apps/messageheader/",
              "desc": "Google's official parser for analysing raw email headers.",
              "tags": []
            },
            {
              "title": "MXToolbox",
              "url": "https://mxtoolbox.com/",
              "desc": "Checks MX records, blacklists and email deliverability for a domain.",
              "tags": []
            },
            {
              "title": "email-osint-ripper",
              "url": "https://github.com/Quantika14/email-osint-ripper",
              "desc": "Open-source tool for gathering OSINT data tied to an email address.",
              "tags": [
                "cli",
                "self-hosted"
              ]
            },
            {
              "title": "Verify-Email.org",
              "url": "https://verify-email.org/",
              "desc": "Free online email address validity checker.",
              "tags": []
            },
            {
              "title": "YOPmail",
              "url": "https://yopmail.com/es/",
              "desc": "Free disposable inbox for temporary, anonymous email addresses.",
              "tags": []
            },
            {
              "title": "GHunt",
              "url": "https://github.com/mxrch/GHunt",
              "desc": "Extracts public data tied to a Google account: photos, reviews, calendars and services used.",
              "tags": [
                "cli",
                "self-hosted",
                "pick"
              ]
            }
          ]
        },
        {
          "title": "Sock Puppet",
          "slug": "sock-puppet",
          "tools": [
            {
              "title": "Avatar Maker",
              "url": "https://avatarmaker.com/",
              "desc": "Generates custom cartoon avatars for cover profiles.",
              "tags": []
            },
            {
              "title": "Fake Identity Generator",
              "url": "https://datafakegenerator.com/generador.php",
              "desc": "Generates a full fake identity (name, address, details) for a chosen country.",
              "tags": []
            },
            {
              "title": "Fake Name Generator",
              "url": "https://www.fakenamegenerator.com/advanced.php",
              "desc": "Generates a complete fake identity with configurable nationality and details.",
              "tags": []
            },
            {
              "title": "Generated Photos — Faces",
              "url": "https://generated.photos/faces",
              "desc": "Library of royalty-free AI-generated human faces.",
              "tags": []
            },
            {
              "title": "Img2Go",
              "url": "https://www.img2go.com/",
              "desc": "Online image editor and format converter.",
              "tags": []
            },
            {
              "title": "MiniRandom — Random Name",
              "url": "https://minirandom.com/",
              "desc": "Generates random names for cover identities.",
              "tags": []
            },
            {
              "title": "Fake WhatsApp Chat Generator",
              "url": "http://www.fakewhats.com/generator",
              "desc": "Generates a mock WhatsApp chat screenshot (for awareness/training only).",
              "tags": []
            },
            {
              "title": "Random User Generator",
              "url": "https://randomuser.me/photos",
              "desc": "API/gallery of randomly generated user profile photos.",
              "tags": [
                "api"
              ]
            },
            {
              "title": "Receive-SMSS.com",
              "url": "https://receive-smss.com/",
              "desc": "Free temporary numbers for receiving SMS verification codes.",
              "tags": []
            },
            {
              "title": "Spoofbox — Receive Text Messages",
              "url": "https://www.spoofbox.com/en/tool/trash-mobile",
              "desc": "Disposable phone number for receiving SMS without a personal number.",
              "tags": []
            },
            {
              "title": "Sensity",
              "url": "https://sensity.ai/",
              "desc": "Deepfake and synthetic-media detection platform.",
              "tags": []
            },
            {
              "title": "SMSPVA",
              "url": "http://smspva.com/",
              "desc": "Paid virtual numbers for SMS verification on various platforms.",
              "tags": []
            },
            {
              "title": "This Person Does Not Exist",
              "url": "https://this-person-does-not-exist.com/en",
              "desc": "Generates a photorealistic AI face of a person who doesn't exist.",
              "tags": []
            },
            {
              "title": "UK-OSINT — Creating IDs",
              "url": "https://www.uk-osint.net/creatingids.html",
              "desc": "Reference guide on building believable sock puppet identities.",
              "tags": []
            },
            {
              "title": "TextVerified",
              "url": "https://www.textverified.com/",
              "desc": "Paid service providing numbers to bypass SMS/voice verification.",
              "tags": []
            },
            {
              "title": "Aitubo",
              "url": "https://app.aitubo.ai/",
              "desc": "AI image and avatar generation tool.",
              "tags": []
            }
          ]
        },
        {
          "title": "Corporate & Public Records",
          "slug": "corporate-and-public-records",
          "tools": [
            {
              "title": "OpenCorporates",
              "url": "https://opencorporates.com/",
              "desc": "The largest open database of company registry records worldwide.",
              "tags": [
                "api",
                "pick"
              ]
            },
            {
              "title": "OpenSanctions",
              "url": "https://www.opensanctions.org/",
              "desc": "Sanctions lists, politically exposed persons and watchlisted entities, with a free API.",
              "tags": [
                "api",
                "pick"
              ]
            },
            {
              "title": "Aleph (OCCRP)",
              "url": "https://aleph.occrp.org/",
              "desc": "Searches millions of leaked documents and investigative datasets held by OCCRP.",
              "tags": [
                "pick"
              ]
            },
            {
              "title": "ICIJ Offshore Leaks",
              "url": "https://offshoreleaks.icij.org/",
              "desc": "Searchable database behind the Panama, Paradise and Pandora Papers.",
              "tags": [
                "pick"
              ]
            }
          ]
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "title": "Privacy & Communications",
      "idx": "04",
      "slug": "privacy-and-communications",
      "count": 26,
      "categories": [
        {
          "title": "Virtual SMS",
          "slug": "virtual-sms",
          "tools": [
            {
              "title": "BurstSMS",
              "url": "https://burstsms.com.au/",
              "desc": "Australian SMS gateway and marketing platform.",
              "tags": []
            },
            {
              "title": "DirectSMS",
              "url": "https://www.directsms.com.au/",
              "desc": "Australian bulk SMS and virtual number provider.",
              "tags": []
            },
            {
              "title": "Esendex",
              "url": "https://www.esendex.co.uk/",
              "desc": "UK business SMS platform, also usable for verification numbers.",
              "tags": []
            },
            {
              "title": "GetSMS.Online",
              "url": "https://getsms.online/en/",
              "desc": "Rents virtual numbers for receiving SMS and account activations.",
              "tags": []
            },
            {
              "title": "Sonetel",
              "url": "https://sonetel.com/es/",
              "desc": "Virtual phone numbers with cheap international calling.",
              "tags": []
            },
            {
              "title": "Proovl",
              "url": "https://www.proovl.com/",
              "desc": "Virtual number service for SMS verification.",
              "tags": []
            },
            {
              "title": "Receive-SMS-Online.info",
              "url": "https://receive-sms-online.info/",
              "desc": "Free temporary numbers for receiving SMS verification codes.",
              "tags": []
            },
            {
              "title": "HS3X — Receive SMS Online",
              "url": "https://hs3x.com/",
              "desc": "Free public numbers for receiving SMS verification codes.",
              "tags": []
            },
            {
              "title": "ReceiveASMS",
              "url": "https://www.receiveasms.com/",
              "desc": "Free temporary phone numbers for receiving SMS.",
              "tags": []
            },
            {
              "title": "ReceiveSMSOnline.in",
              "url": "https://receivesmsonline.in/",
              "desc": "Free temporary numbers for receiving SMS in India and beyond.",
              "tags": []
            },
            {
              "title": "SMS-Receive.net",
              "url": "https://sms-receive.net/",
              "desc": "Free temporary numbers for receiving SMS.",
              "tags": []
            },
            {
              "title": "SMSPVA",
              "url": "http://smspva.com/",
              "desc": "Paid virtual numbers for SMS verification on various platforms.",
              "tags": []
            },
            {
              "title": "Vumber",
              "url": "https://www.vumber.com/",
              "desc": "Business virtual phone numbers for calls and texts.",
              "tags": []
            },
            {
              "title": "WATools",
              "url": "https://watools.io/",
              "desc": "Suite of WhatsApp utilities including bulk sender and number checker.",
              "tags": []
            }
          ]
        },
        {
          "title": "VPN / Proxy",
          "slug": "vpn-proxy",
          "tools": [
            {
              "title": "ProxyScrape",
              "url": "https://proxyscrape.com/free-proxy-list",
              "desc": "Free, regularly updated list of public proxy servers.",
              "tags": []
            },
            {
              "title": "Free-Proxy-List.net",
              "url": "https://free-proxy-list.net/",
              "desc": "Free list of public HTTP/HTTPS proxies.",
              "tags": []
            },
            {
              "title": "ProtonVPN",
              "url": "https://protonvpn.com/",
              "desc": "Privacy-focused VPN service with a free tier.",
              "tags": []
            },
            {
              "title": "ProxyNova",
              "url": "https://www.proxynova.com/proxy-server-list",
              "desc": "Free public proxy server list with country filters.",
              "tags": []
            },
            {
              "title": "TunnelBear VPN",
              "url": "https://www.tunnelbear.com/",
              "desc": "User-friendly VPN service with a limited free tier.",
              "tags": []
            },
            {
              "title": "hide.me VPN",
              "url": "https://hide.me/en/",
              "desc": "VPN service with a free tier and no-logs policy.",
              "tags": []
            }
          ]
        },
        {
          "title": "Cryptography",
          "slug": "cryptography",
          "tools": [
            {
              "title": "SHA-1 Reverse Lookup",
              "url": "https://sha1.gromweb.com/",
              "desc": "Looks up plaintext matches for a SHA-1 hash in known dictionaries.",
              "tags": []
            },
            {
              "title": "MD5 Online Decrypt",
              "url": "https://www.md5online.org/md5-decrypt.html",
              "desc": "Attempts to reverse an MD5 hash using precomputed dictionaries.",
              "tags": []
            },
            {
              "title": "OpenPGP.js Web Encrypt",
              "url": "https://webencrypt.org/openpgpjs/",
              "desc": "Browser-based PGP encryption/decryption tool.",
              "tags": []
            },
            {
              "title": "SELA PGP Online",
              "url": "https://sela.io/pgp-en/",
              "desc": "Online PGP encryption and decryption tool.",
              "tags": []
            },
            {
              "title": "No More Ransom Project",
              "url": "https://www.nomoreransom.org/es/index.html",
              "desc": "Free decryption tools for many strains of ransomware.",
              "tags": []
            },
            {
              "title": "8gwifi PGP Encrypt/Decrypt",
              "url": "https://8gwifi.org/pgpencdec.jsp",
              "desc": "Online PGP encryption, decryption and key generation tool.",
              "tags": []
            }
          ]
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "title": "Web Infrastructure",
      "idx": "05",
      "slug": "web-infrastructure",
      "count": 76,
      "categories": [
        {
          "title": "Web Archives & Search",
          "slug": "web-archives-and-search",
          "tools": [
            {
              "title": "Google Alerts",
              "url": "https://www.google.es/alerts",
              "desc": "Sends email notifications when new content matching a search term is indexed.",
              "tags": []
            },
            {
              "title": "Archive.today",
              "url": "https://archive.is/",
              "desc": "Creates permanent snapshots of web pages, resistant to takedowns.",
              "tags": [
                "pick"
              ]
            },
            {
              "title": "CachedView",
              "url": "http://cachedview.com/",
              "desc": "Retrieves Google's cached version of a webpage.",
              "tags": []
            },
            {
              "title": "Wayback Machine",
              "url": "https://archive.org/web/",
              "desc": "The Internet Archive's tool for browsing historical snapshots of websites.",
              "tags": [
                "pick"
              ]
            },
            {
              "title": "Lampyre",
              "url": "https://lampyre.io/",
              "desc": "Data analysis and link-visualisation tool for OSINT investigations.",
              "tags": []
            },
            {
              "title": "pagodo",
              "url": "https://github.com/opsdisk/pagodo",
              "desc": "Automates Google dork searches using Google Hacking Database queries.",
              "tags": [
                "cli",
                "self-hosted"
              ]
            },
            {
              "title": "Exploit-DB Google Hacking Database",
              "url": "https://www.exploit-db.com/google-hacking-database",
              "desc": "Curated catalogue of Google dorks for finding exposed data and vulnerabilities.",
              "tags": []
            },
            {
              "title": "UK Web Archive",
              "url": "https://www.webarchive.org.uk/ukwa/",
              "desc": "The British Library's archive of UK websites.",
              "tags": []
            },
            {
              "title": "WikiLeaks",
              "url": "https://wikileaks.org/",
              "desc": "Archive of leaked government and corporate documents.",
              "tags": []
            },
            {
              "title": "OSINT Framework",
              "url": "https://osintframework.com/",
              "desc": "Visual directory linking out to hundreds of categorised OSINT tools.",
              "tags": [
                "pick"
              ]
            },
            {
              "title": "Ghostarchive",
              "url": "https://ghostarchive.org/",
              "desc": "Archives web pages and video, including YouTube, where the Wayback Machine falls short.",
              "tags": [
                "pick"
              ]
            },
            {
              "title": "Bellingcat Toolkit",
              "url": "https://bellingcat.gitbook.io/toolkit",
              "desc": "Bellingcat's curated tool catalogue with reviews, use cases and stated limitations.",
              "tags": [
                "pick"
              ]
            },
            {
              "title": "Maltego Community Edition",
              "url": "https://www.maltego.com/",
              "desc": "Link analysis and data visualisation; the Community Edition is free with result limits.",
              "tags": []
            },
            {
              "title": "OSINT Vault Multi-Search",
              "url": "https://theosintvault.io/multi-search-launcher.html",
              "desc": "Fires one query at 121 search engines at once, by username, IP, phone, email or domain.",
              "tags": []
            }
          ]
        },
        {
          "title": "Domain & DNS",
          "slug": "domain-and-dns",
          "tools": [
            {
              "title": "Archive.today",
              "url": "http://archive.today/",
              "desc": "Creates permanent snapshots of web pages, resistant to takedowns.",
              "tags": []
            },
            {
              "title": "Bitly",
              "url": "https://bitly.com/",
              "desc": "Popular URL shortener with analytics.",
              "tags": []
            },
            {
              "title": "Carbon Date",
              "url": "https://carbondate.cs.odu.edu/",
              "desc": "Estimates the creation date of a web page using multiple signals.",
              "tags": []
            },
            {
              "title": "DNSDumpster",
              "url": "https://dnsdumpster.com/",
              "desc": "Free domain research tool that maps a domain's DNS records and subdomains.",
              "tags": [
                "pick"
              ]
            },
            {
              "title": "Dominios.es",
              "url": "https://www.dominios.es/",
              "desc": "Spanish domain registrar and WHOIS lookup.",
              "tags": []
            },
            {
              "title": "IP2WHOIS",
              "url": "https://www.ip2whois.com/",
              "desc": "Free WHOIS lookup for domain registration details.",
              "tags": [
                "api"
              ]
            },
            {
              "title": "Wayback Machine Downloader",
              "url": "http://github.com/hartator/wayback-machine-downloader",
              "desc": "Downloads an entire archived website from the Wayback Machine.",
              "tags": [
                "cli",
                "self-hosted"
              ]
            },
            {
              "title": "IANA Root Zone Database",
              "url": "https://www.iana.org/domains/root/db",
              "desc": "Official registry of all top-level domains.",
              "tags": []
            },
            {
              "title": "Internet Archive",
              "url": "http://archive.org/",
              "desc": "Digital library of archived websites, books, media and more.",
              "tags": []
            },
            {
              "title": "recon-ng",
              "url": "https://github.com/lanmaster53/recon-ng",
              "desc": "Full-featured reconnaissance framework for web-based OSINT.",
              "tags": [
                "cli",
                "self-hosted",
                "pick"
              ]
            },
            {
              "title": "ICANN Accredited Registrars",
              "url": "https://www.icann.org/en/accredited-registrars",
              "desc": "Official directory of ICANN-accredited domain registrars.",
              "tags": []
            },
            {
              "title": "Reverse WHOIS Lookup (ViewDNS)",
              "url": "https://viewdns.info/reversewhois/",
              "desc": "Finds other domains registered by the same person/organisation.",
              "tags": []
            },
            {
              "title": "Robtex",
              "url": "https://www.robtex.com/",
              "desc": "DNS and network research tool showing domain and IP relationships.",
              "tags": []
            },
            {
              "title": "Root Server Technical Operations",
              "url": "https://root-servers.org/",
              "desc": "Information on the internet's root DNS server infrastructure.",
              "tags": []
            },
            {
              "title": "SecurityTrails",
              "url": "https://securitytrails.com/",
              "desc": "Historical and current DNS data, WHOIS records and domain intelligence (formerly DNSTrails).",
              "tags": [
                "pick"
              ]
            },
            {
              "title": "SpyOnWeb",
              "url": "http://spyonweb.com/",
              "desc": "Finds related websites sharing the same analytics or ad IDs.",
              "tags": []
            },
            {
              "title": "theHarvester",
              "url": "http://www.edge-security.com/theharvester.php",
              "desc": "Gathers emails, subdomains and hosts from public sources for a domain.",
              "tags": [
                "pick"
              ]
            },
            {
              "title": "ViewDNS.info",
              "url": "https://viewdns.info/",
              "desc": "Suite of free DNS, WHOIS and IP research tools.",
              "tags": [
                "pick"
              ]
            },
            {
              "title": "Who.is",
              "url": "https://who.is/",
              "desc": "WHOIS lookup and domain registration information.",
              "tags": []
            },
            {
              "title": "Whoxy",
              "url": "https://www.whoxy.com/whois-database/",
              "desc": "Historical WHOIS database and reverse WHOIS lookups.",
              "tags": []
            },
            {
              "title": "DomainTools WHOIS",
              "url": "https://whois.domaintools.com/",
              "desc": "WHOIS lookup with historical ownership records.",
              "tags": []
            },
            {
              "title": "Whoisology",
              "url": "https://whoisology.com/#advanced",
              "desc": "Advanced reverse WHOIS search engine.",
              "tags": []
            },
            {
              "title": "crt.sh",
              "url": "https://crt.sh/",
              "desc": "Certificate Transparency search: finds subdomains through publicly issued TLS certificates.",
              "tags": [
                "pick"
              ]
            },
            {
              "title": "urlscan.io",
              "url": "https://urlscan.io/",
              "desc": "Scans a URL in a sandbox and records screenshot, DOM, requests and contacted domains.",
              "tags": [
                "api",
                "pick"
              ]
            },
            {
              "title": "OWASP Amass",
              "url": "https://github.com/owasp-amass/amass",
              "desc": "Attack-surface mapping and subdomain discovery using passive and active techniques.",
              "tags": [
                "cli",
                "self-hosted",
                "pick"
              ]
            },
            {
              "title": "Subfinder",
              "url": "https://github.com/projectdiscovery/subfinder",
              "desc": "Fast passive subdomain enumeration from ProjectDiscovery.",
              "tags": [
                "cli",
                "self-hosted"
              ]
            }
          ]
        },
        {
          "title": "IP Address",
          "slug": "ip-address",
          "tools": [
            {
              "title": "Andy21 — IP Tools",
              "url": "https://www.andy21.com/ip/",
              "desc": "IP address lookup and network information tool.",
              "tags": []
            },
            {
              "title": "CentralOps",
              "url": "https://centralops.net/co/",
              "desc": "Free suite of network research tools (WHOIS, traceroute, DNS, etc.).",
              "tags": []
            },
            {
              "title": "Grabify IP Logger",
              "url": "https://grabify.link/",
              "desc": "Generates a tracking link to log the IP address of anyone who clicks it.",
              "tags": []
            },
            {
              "title": "InfoSniper",
              "url": "https://www.infosniper.net/",
              "desc": "IP geolocation and network information lookup.",
              "tags": []
            },
            {
              "title": "IPinfo",
              "url": "https://ipinfo.io/",
              "desc": "IP address data API covering geolocation, ASN and privacy detection.",
              "tags": [
                "api"
              ]
            },
            {
              "title": "IPLocation.net",
              "url": "https://www.iplocation.net/",
              "desc": "Aggregates multiple geolocation databases for a given IP address.",
              "tags": []
            },
            {
              "title": "IPFingerprints",
              "url": "https://www.ipfingerprints.com/",
              "desc": "IP location lookup and basic network diagnostic tools.",
              "tags": []
            },
            {
              "title": "IPLogger",
              "url": "https://iplogger.com/",
              "desc": "URL shortener that logs visitor IP addresses and stats.",
              "tags": []
            },
            {
              "title": "IP2Location",
              "url": "https://www.ip2location.com/",
              "desc": "IP geolocation database and lookup service.",
              "tags": [
                "api"
              ]
            },
            {
              "title": "IPAddress.my",
              "url": "https://www.ipaddress.my/",
              "desc": "Shows your own public IP address and basic geolocation.",
              "tags": []
            },
            {
              "title": "Nmap Online Port Scanner",
              "url": "https://hackertarget.com/nmap-online-port-scanner/",
              "desc": "Runs an Nmap port scan against a target from the browser.",
              "tags": []
            },
            {
              "title": "Shodan",
              "url": "http://shodan.io/",
              "desc": "Search engine for internet-connected devices and exposed services.",
              "tags": [
                "api",
                "pick"
              ]
            },
            {
              "title": "Visualping",
              "url": "https://visualping.io/",
              "desc": "Monitors a webpage and alerts you when it visually changes.",
              "tags": []
            },
            {
              "title": "WhatIsMyIP.com",
              "url": "https://www.whatismyip.com/",
              "desc": "Shows your public IP address and connection details.",
              "tags": []
            },
            {
              "title": "WhatPortIs",
              "url": "https://whatportis.com/",
              "desc": "Looks up what service commonly runs on a given network port.",
              "tags": []
            },
            {
              "title": "WTF Is My IP",
              "url": "https://wtfismyip.com",
              "desc": "Minimalist tool showing your public IP and basic details.",
              "tags": []
            }
          ]
        },
        {
          "title": "GitHub Tools & Plugins",
          "slug": "github-tools-and-plugins",
          "tools": [
            {
              "title": "OSINT_Collection",
              "url": "https://github.com/Ph055a/OSINT_Collection",
              "desc": "A curated collection of OSINT scripts and tools.",
              "tags": [
                "cli",
                "self-hosted"
              ]
            },
            {
              "title": "Photon",
              "url": "https://github.com/s0md3v/Photon",
              "desc": "Fast web crawler designed to extract URLs, emails and metadata for OSINT.",
              "tags": [
                "cli",
                "self-hosted"
              ]
            },
            {
              "title": "Holehe",
              "url": "https://github.com/megadose/holehe",
              "desc": "Checks whether an email address is registered on 120+ platforms.",
              "tags": [
                "cli",
                "self-hosted",
                "pick"
              ]
            },
            {
              "title": "Web-Check",
              "url": "https://github.com/Lissy93/web-check",
              "desc": "All-in-one tool for auditing a website's DNS, security headers, tech stack and more.",
              "tags": [
                "cli",
                "self-hosted",
                "pick"
              ]
            },
            {
              "title": "h8mail",
              "url": "https://github.com/khast3x/h8mail",
              "desc": "Email OSINT and breach-data hunting tool.",
              "tags": [
                "cli",
                "self-hosted"
              ]
            },
            {
              "title": "Mosint",
              "url": "https://github.com/alpkeskin/mosint",
              "desc": "Automated email OSINT tool for gathering leaks, accounts and metadata.",
              "tags": [
                "cli",
                "self-hosted"
              ]
            },
            {
              "title": "TorBot",
              "url": "https://github.com/DedSecInside/TorBot",
              "desc": "OSINT crawler for scanning and mapping dark web onion sites.",
              "tags": [
                "cli",
                "self-hosted"
              ]
            },
            {
              "title": "Maigret",
              "url": "https://github.com/soxoj/maigret",
              "desc": "Collects a person's accounts across 3000+ sites from a single username.",
              "tags": [
                "cli",
                "self-hosted",
                "pick"
              ]
            },
            {
              "title": "Sherlock",
              "url": "https://github.com/sherlock-project/sherlock",
              "desc": "Hunts down social media accounts by username across hundreds of sites.",
              "tags": [
                "cli",
                "self-hosted",
                "pick"
              ]
            },
            {
              "title": "Python for OSINT — 21 Days",
              "url": "https://github.com/cipher387/python-for-OSINT-21-days",
              "desc": "A free 21-day course teaching Python scripting for OSINT tasks.",
              "tags": [
                "cli",
                "self-hosted"
              ]
            },
            {
              "title": "SpiderFoot",
              "url": "https://github.com/smicallef/spiderfoot",
              "desc": "Automates collection across 200+ modules from a single seed: domain, IP, email or name.",
              "tags": [
                "cli",
                "self-hosted",
                "pick"
              ]
            },
            {
              "title": "Mitaka",
              "url": "https://github.com/ninoseki/mitaka",
              "desc": "Browser extension: select an IP, hash or domain on any page and search it across 70+ engines.",
              "tags": [
                "pick"
              ]
            },
            {
              "title": "awesome-osint",
              "url": "https://github.com/jivoi/awesome-osint",
              "desc": "The reference community-maintained list of OSINT resources on GitHub.",
              "tags": [
                "pick"
              ]
            },
            {
              "title": "Docstrange",
              "url": "https://github.com/NanoNets/docstrange",
              "desc": "Extracts structured data from PDFs, images and office documents into Markdown, JSON or CSV.",
              "tags": [
                "cli",
                "self-hosted"
              ]
            }
          ]
        },
        {
          "title": "Threat Intelligence",
          "slug": "threat-intelligence",
          "tools": [
            {
              "title": "VirusTotal",
              "url": "https://www.virustotal.com/",
              "desc": "Reputation and analysis for files, URLs, domains and IP addresses across dozens of engines.",
              "tags": [
                "api",
                "pick"
              ]
            },
            {
              "title": "AbuseIPDB",
              "url": "https://www.abuseipdb.com/",
              "desc": "Community-reported abuse history and confidence score for any IP address.",
              "tags": [
                "api"
              ]
            },
            {
              "title": "GreyNoise Visualizer",
              "url": "https://viz.greynoise.io/",
              "desc": "Separates internet-wide background scanning from activity actually targeting you.",
              "tags": [
                "api"
              ]
            },
            {
              "title": "Hudson Rock Free Tools",
              "url": "https://www.hudsonrock.com/free-tools",
              "desc": "Checks whether a domain, email or user appears in infostealer malware logs.",
              "tags": [
                "pick"
              ]
            },
            {
              "title": "Threat Actor Usernames",
              "url": "https://threatactorusernames.com/",
              "desc": "Searchable index of 2M+ threat actor aliases and where they operate.",
              "tags": []
            },
            {
              "title": "APTmap",
              "url": "https://andreacristaldi.github.io/APTmap/",
              "desc": "Interactive map of APT groups with attribution, targets and reference material.",
              "tags": []
            }
          ]
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "title": "Geolocation & Transport",
      "idx": "06",
      "slug": "geolocation-and-transport",
      "count": 44,
      "categories": [
        {
          "title": "Maps & Satellite",
          "slug": "maps-and-satellite",
          "tools": [
            {
              "title": "Bing Maps",
              "url": "http://bing.com/maps",
              "desc": "Microsoft's map and satellite imagery platform.",
              "tags": []
            },
            {
              "title": "F4map",
              "url": "https://demo.f4map.com/",
              "desc": "Interactive 3D map rendered from OpenStreetMap data.",
              "tags": []
            },
            {
              "title": "Free Map Tools",
              "url": "https://www.freemaptools.com/",
              "desc": "Collection of small mapping utilities (radius, distance, elevation, etc.).",
              "tags": []
            },
            {
              "title": "AutoNavi / Gaode Maps",
              "url": "https://gaode.com/",
              "desc": "Leading Chinese mapping platform, useful for locations in China.",
              "tags": []
            },
            {
              "title": "Geograph",
              "url": "http://geograph.org/",
              "desc": "Crowdsourced photo archive geotagged across Britain and Ireland.",
              "tags": []
            },
            {
              "title": "GeoNames",
              "url": "http://www.geonames.org/",
              "desc": "Free global geographical database of place names and coordinates.",
              "tags": [
                "api"
              ]
            },
            {
              "title": "Google Maps",
              "url": "http://maps.google.com/",
              "desc": "The most widely used mapping and satellite imagery platform.",
              "tags": [
                "pick"
              ]
            },
            {
              "title": "HERE WeGo",
              "url": "http://wego.here.com/",
              "desc": "Mapping and navigation platform with detailed international coverage.",
              "tags": []
            },
            {
              "title": "Hitta.se",
              "url": "http://hitta.se/",
              "desc": "Swedish maps and people/business directory.",
              "tags": []
            },
            {
              "title": "LatLong.net",
              "url": "https://www.latlong.net/",
              "desc": "Converts an address to latitude/longitude coordinates and back.",
              "tags": []
            },
            {
              "title": "MapChecking",
              "url": "https://www.mapchecking.com/",
              "desc": "Estimates crowd size on a map from an aerial photo.",
              "tags": []
            },
            {
              "title": "find2places (geolocatethis)",
              "url": "http://github.com/musafir-py/find2places",
              "desc": "Script-based tool for geolocation research assistance.",
              "tags": [
                "cli",
                "self-hosted"
              ]
            },
            {
              "title": "OpenSeaMap",
              "url": "https://map.openseamap.org/",
              "desc": "Free nautical chart built on OpenStreetMap data.",
              "tags": []
            },
            {
              "title": "Satellites.pro",
              "url": "https://satellites.pro/",
              "desc": "Free satellite map viewer for any location worldwide.",
              "tags": []
            },
            {
              "title": "Sentinel Hub Playground",
              "url": "http://apps.sentinel-hub.com/sentinel-playground",
              "desc": "Interactive viewer for browsing Sentinel satellite imagery.",
              "tags": [
                "pick"
              ]
            },
            {
              "title": "Live Universal Awareness Map (Ukraine)",
              "url": "https://liveuamap.com/",
              "desc": "Live conflict-mapping platform tracking events in Ukraine and beyond.",
              "tags": []
            },
            {
              "title": "UTM ↔ Lat/Long Converter",
              "url": "http://synnatschke.de/geo-tools/coordinate-converter.php",
              "desc": "Converts between UTM and latitude/longitude coordinate systems.",
              "tags": []
            },
            {
              "title": "QGIS",
              "url": "http://www.qgis.org/",
              "desc": "Free, open-source desktop GIS software for mapping and spatial analysis.",
              "tags": [
                "pick"
              ]
            },
            {
              "title": "what3words",
              "url": "http://map.what3words.com/",
              "desc": "Locates any 3x3m spot on Earth using a unique three-word address.",
              "tags": [
                "pick"
              ]
            },
            {
              "title": "Wikimapia",
              "url": "http://wikimapia.org/",
              "desc": "Crowdsourced map with user-submitted place descriptions and tags.",
              "tags": []
            },
            {
              "title": "World Imagery Wayback",
              "url": "https://livingatlas.arcgis.com/wayback/",
              "desc": "Browses historical versions of Esri's satellite imagery over time.",
              "tags": []
            },
            {
              "title": "Yandex Maps",
              "url": "http://yandex.com/maps",
              "desc": "Detailed mapping platform with strong coverage of Russia and CIS states.",
              "tags": [
                "pick"
              ]
            },
            {
              "title": "Kakao Map",
              "url": "https://map.kakao.com/",
              "desc": "South Korea's leading local map service.",
              "tags": []
            },
            {
              "title": "Baidu Maps",
              "url": "http://map.baidu.com/",
              "desc": "China's leading local map service.",
              "tags": []
            },
            {
              "title": "GeoSpy",
              "url": "https://app.geospy.ai/",
              "desc": "AI tool that estimates a photo's geolocation from visual cues.",
              "tags": [
                "pick"
              ]
            },
            {
              "title": "Overpass Turbo",
              "url": "https://overpass-turbo.eu/",
              "desc": "Runs queries against OpenStreetMap data, e.g. every petrol station within a radius.",
              "tags": [
                "pick"
              ]
            },
            {
              "title": "Copernicus Data Space",
              "url": "https://dataspace.copernicus.eu/",
              "desc": "The official successor to the Copernicus Open Access Hub for Sentinel satellite data.",
              "tags": [
                "pick"
              ]
            },
            {
              "title": "Sentinel Hub EO Browser",
              "url": "https://apps.sentinel-hub.com/eo-browser/",
              "desc": "Browse and compare satellite imagery over time, with vegetation and moisture indices.",
              "tags": [
                "pick"
              ]
            },
            {
              "title": "Google Earth",
              "url": "https://earth.google.com/",
              "desc": "Historical satellite imagery, 3D terrain and distance/area measurement.",
              "tags": [
                "pick"
              ]
            },
            {
              "title": "WiGLE",
              "url": "https://wigle.net/",
              "desc": "Geolocates WiFi networks by BSSID from a crowdsourced global wardriving database.",
              "tags": [
                "api"
              ]
            }
          ]
        },
        {
          "title": "Flight & Ship Tracking",
          "slug": "flight-and-ship-tracking",
          "tools": [
            {
              "title": "ADS-B Exchange Flight Data",
              "url": "http://flight-data.adsbexchange.com/",
              "desc": "Unfiltered, crowdsourced live flight tracking data.",
              "tags": []
            },
            {
              "title": "FlightAware",
              "url": "http://flightaware.com/",
              "desc": "Real-time flight tracking and historical flight data.",
              "tags": []
            },
            {
              "title": "Flightradar24",
              "url": "http://flightradar24.com/",
              "desc": "The most popular live flight tracking platform.",
              "tags": [
                "pick"
              ]
            },
            {
              "title": "Global Fishing Watch",
              "url": "http://globalfishingwatch.org/map",
              "desc": "Tracks commercial fishing vessel activity worldwide via satellite AIS data.",
              "tags": []
            },
            {
              "title": "IMO Web Accounts",
              "url": "http://webaccounts.imo.org/",
              "desc": "International Maritime Organization's ship and company records portal.",
              "tags": []
            },
            {
              "title": "MarineTraffic",
              "url": "http://marinetraffic.com/",
              "desc": "Live global ship tracking based on AIS data.",
              "tags": [
                "pick"
              ]
            },
            {
              "title": "Tokyo MOU — Port State Control",
              "url": "http://www.tokyo-mou.org/",
              "desc": "Asia-Pacific database of port state control ship inspections.",
              "tags": []
            },
            {
              "title": "Plane Finder",
              "url": "http://planefinder.net/",
              "desc": "Real-time flight tracking with 3D visualisation.",
              "tags": []
            },
            {
              "title": "RadarBox",
              "url": "http://radarbox24.com/",
              "desc": "Live flight tracking platform with historical playback.",
              "tags": []
            },
            {
              "title": "The OpenSky Network",
              "url": "http://opensky-network.org/",
              "desc": "Open, research-focused ADS-B flight tracking data network.",
              "tags": [
                "api",
                "pick"
              ]
            },
            {
              "title": "Bosphorus Observer",
              "url": "https://bosphorusobserver.com/",
              "desc": "Tracks vessel traffic transiting the Bosphorus Strait.",
              "tags": []
            },
            {
              "title": "VesselFinder",
              "url": "http://vesselfinder.com/",
              "desc": "Live ship tracking and vessel information based on AIS.",
              "tags": []
            },
            {
              "title": "VIN Decoder",
              "url": "http://www.vindecoderz.com/",
              "desc": "Decodes a vehicle identification number into make, model and specs.",
              "tags": []
            },
            {
              "title": "WikiRoutes",
              "url": "http://wikiroutes.info/",
              "desc": "Crowdsourced public transport route maps for cities worldwide.",
              "tags": []
            }
          ]
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "title": "Crypto & Dark Web",
      "idx": "07",
      "slug": "crypto-and-dark-web",
      "count": 39,
      "categories": [
        {
          "title": "Cryptocurrencies",
          "slug": "cryptocurrencies",
          "tools": [
            {
              "title": "Cryptocurrency Alerting",
              "url": "https://cryptocurrencyalerting.com/wallet-watch.html",
              "desc": "Sends alerts when a monitored wallet address receives or sends funds.",
              "tags": []
            },
            {
              "title": "Arkham Intelligence",
              "url": "https://intel.arkm.com/",
              "desc": "Blockchain intelligence platform linking wallets to real-world entities.",
              "tags": [
                "pick"
              ]
            },
            {
              "title": "BscScan",
              "url": "https://bscscan.com/",
              "desc": "Block explorer for the BNB Smart Chain (Binance).",
              "tags": []
            },
            {
              "title": "Blockchain.com Explorer",
              "url": "https://www.blockchain.com/explorer",
              "desc": "Bitcoin, Ethereum and other blockchain explorer.",
              "tags": []
            },
            {
              "title": "Bitcoin Whos Who",
              "url": "https://bitcoinwhoswho.com/",
              "desc": "Bitcoin address lookup and scam-report database.",
              "tags": []
            },
            {
              "title": "BitInfoCharts",
              "url": "https://bitinfocharts.com/",
              "desc": "Charts and rich-list statistics across many cryptocurrencies.",
              "tags": []
            },
            {
              "title": "Bitref",
              "url": "https://bitref.com/",
              "desc": "Checks the balance of a Bitcoin wallet address.",
              "tags": []
            },
            {
              "title": "Blockchair",
              "url": "https://blockchair.com/",
              "desc": "Multi-chain block explorer and search engine.",
              "tags": [
                "api",
                "pick"
              ]
            },
            {
              "title": "BlockCypher",
              "url": "https://live.blockcypher.com/",
              "desc": "Live block explorer for Bitcoin and other chains.",
              "tags": [
                "api"
              ]
            },
            {
              "title": "Etherscan Bridges Dashboard",
              "url": "https://bi.etherscan.io/public/dashboards/Z6PuB2HTLK4tGOCtrYvP65seYXGWfLea76mknRu6",
              "desc": "Dashboard tracking cross-chain bridge activity on Etherscan.",
              "tags": []
            },
            {
              "title": "Blockscan Bridges Explorer",
              "url": "https://blockscan.com/bridges",
              "desc": "Directory and explorer for cross-chain bridge transactions.",
              "tags": []
            },
            {
              "title": "Chainabuse",
              "url": "https://www.chainabuse.com/",
              "desc": "Crowdsourced database for reporting and searching crypto scam addresses.",
              "tags": [
                "pick"
              ]
            },
            {
              "title": "CoinMarketCap",
              "url": "https://coinmarketcap.com/es/",
              "desc": "The most widely used cryptocurrency price and market-cap tracker.",
              "tags": [
                "api"
              ]
            },
            {
              "title": "DeBank",
              "url": "https://debank.com/",
              "desc": "Portfolio tracker and analytics for DeFi wallets across chains.",
              "tags": []
            },
            {
              "title": "DefiPrime — DeFi Exchanges List",
              "url": "https://defiprime.com/exchanges",
              "desc": "Directory of decentralised exchanges across the DeFi ecosystem.",
              "tags": []
            },
            {
              "title": "BNB Chain Explorer (DEX)",
              "url": "https://explorer.bnbchain.org/",
              "desc": "Block explorer for BNB Chain's decentralised exchange activity.",
              "tags": []
            },
            {
              "title": "Etherscan — DEX Pairs",
              "url": "https://etherscan.io/dex",
              "desc": "Lists decentralised exchange trading pairs tracked by Etherscan.",
              "tags": []
            },
            {
              "title": "Etherscan — Exchange Directory",
              "url": "https://etherscan.io/directory/Exchanges",
              "desc": "Directory of known exchange wallet addresses on Ethereum.",
              "tags": []
            },
            {
              "title": "Etherscan — Balance Checker",
              "url": "https://etherscan.io/balancecheck-tool",
              "desc": "Checks the ETH balance of multiple addresses at once.",
              "tags": []
            },
            {
              "title": "ImmutaScan",
              "url": "https://immutascan.io/",
              "desc": "Block explorer for the Immutable X NFT/gaming chain.",
              "tags": []
            },
            {
              "title": "Intelligence X",
              "url": "https://intelx.io/",
              "desc": "Search engine indexing leaks, darknet data and historical web archives.",
              "tags": [
                "api"
              ]
            },
            {
              "title": "LiveCoinWatch",
              "url": "https://www.livecoinwatch.com/",
              "desc": "Real-time cryptocurrency price tracker.",
              "tags": [
                "api"
              ]
            },
            {
              "title": "Mempool.space",
              "url": "https://mempool.space/",
              "desc": "Real-time Bitcoin mempool and transaction fee explorer.",
              "tags": [
                "pick"
              ]
            },
            {
              "title": "LocalMonero — Monero Blocks",
              "url": "https://localmonero.co/blocks",
              "desc": "Monero block explorer.",
              "tags": []
            },
            {
              "title": "Synapse ChainID Reference",
              "url": "https://docs.synapseprotocol.com/developers/bridge-sdk/sdk-reference/networks-chainid",
              "desc": "Reference table of blockchain network chain IDs.",
              "tags": []
            },
            {
              "title": "Omni Explorer",
              "url": "https://omniexplorer.info/",
              "desc": "Block explorer for the Omni Layer protocol (built on Bitcoin).",
              "tags": []
            },
            {
              "title": "OpenSea",
              "url": "https://opensea.io/",
              "desc": "The largest NFT marketplace; useful for tracing NFT ownership history.",
              "tags": []
            },
            {
              "title": "Etherscan",
              "url": "https://etherscan.io/",
              "desc": "The primary block explorer for the Ethereum blockchain.",
              "tags": [
                "api",
                "pick"
              ]
            },
            {
              "title": "Etherscan — Token Check Tool",
              "url": "https://etherscan.io/tokencheck-tool",
              "desc": "Checks ERC-20 token balances for a given wallet address.",
              "tags": []
            },
            {
              "title": "TRM — Cryptocurrency Investigations",
              "url": "https://start.me/p/wMzpnL/cryptocurrency-investigations",
              "desc": "Curated start.me page of crypto-investigation resources by TRM Labs.",
              "tags": []
            },
            {
              "title": "TRONSCAN",
              "url": "https://tronscan.org/#/",
              "desc": "Block explorer for the TRON blockchain.",
              "tags": []
            },
            {
              "title": "WalletExplorer",
              "url": "https://www.walletexplorer.com/",
              "desc": "Groups Bitcoin addresses believed to belong to the same wallet/entity.",
              "tags": [
                "pick"
              ]
            },
            {
              "title": "Monero Blockchain Explorer",
              "url": "https://xmrchain.net/",
              "desc": "Public block explorer for the Monero blockchain.",
              "tags": []
            },
            {
              "title": "XRPScan",
              "url": "https://xrpscan.com/",
              "desc": "Block explorer for the XRP Ledger.",
              "tags": []
            }
          ]
        },
        {
          "title": "Dark Web",
          "slug": "dark-web",
          "tools": [
            {
              "title": "Ahmia",
              "url": "https://ahmia.fi/",
              "desc": "Search engine indexing Tor hidden services (.onion sites).",
              "tags": [
                "pick"
              ]
            },
            {
              "title": "I2P",
              "url": "https://geti2p.net/en/",
              "desc": "Anonymous peer-to-peer network layer, an alternative to Tor.",
              "tags": []
            },
            {
              "title": "Tor Project",
              "url": "https://www.torproject.org/download/",
              "desc": "Official download for the Tor Browser, for anonymous access to .onion sites.",
              "tags": [
                "pick"
              ]
            },
            {
              "title": "Tor2web",
              "url": "https://www.tor2web.org/",
              "desc": "Gateway for browsing Tor onion services from a normal browser.",
              "tags": []
            },
            {
              "title": "Torch",
              "url": "http://xmh57jrknzkhv6y3ls3ubitzfqnkrwxhopf5aygthi7d6rplyvk3noyd.onion",
              "desc": "One of the oldest search engines for the Tor network (requires Tor Browser).",
              "tags": []
            }
          ]
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "title": "Tools & Productivity",
      "idx": "08",
      "slug": "tools-and-productivity",
      "count": 33,
      "categories": [
        {
          "title": "AI Tool Directories",
          "slug": "ai-tool-directories",
          "tools": [
            {
              "title": "AI Tools Directory",
              "url": "https://aitoolsdirectory.com",
              "desc": "Searchable directory of AI tools by category.",
              "tags": []
            },
            {
              "title": "Futurepedia",
              "url": "https://futurepedia.io/ai-tools",
              "desc": "Large, regularly updated directory of AI tools.",
              "tags": []
            },
            {
              "title": "There's An AI For That",
              "url": "https://theresanaiforthat.com",
              "desc": "The largest AI tool directory, searchable by task.",
              "tags": []
            }
          ]
        },
        {
          "title": "Productivity",
          "slug": "productivity",
          "tools": [
            {
              "title": "Adobe Express",
              "url": "https://www.adobe.com/express/",
              "desc": "Free online design tool for graphics, video and web pages.",
              "tags": []
            },
            {
              "title": "Arc Search",
              "url": "https://arc.net",
              "desc": "AI-assisted browser and search app from The Browser Company.",
              "tags": []
            },
            {
              "title": "Asana",
              "url": "https://asana.com",
              "desc": "Project and task management platform for teams.",
              "tags": []
            },
            {
              "title": "ClickUp",
              "url": "https://clickup.com",
              "desc": "All-in-one project management and productivity platform.",
              "tags": []
            },
            {
              "title": "Clockwise",
              "url": "https://www.getclockwise.com",
              "desc": "AI calendar assistant that automatically optimises scheduling.",
              "tags": []
            },
            {
              "title": "Copy.ai",
              "url": "https://www.copy.ai",
              "desc": "AI writing assistant for marketing copy and content.",
              "tags": []
            },
            {
              "title": "Drift",
              "url": "https://www.drift.com",
              "desc": "AI-powered conversational marketing and sales chat platform.",
              "tags": []
            },
            {
              "title": "FeedHive",
              "url": "https://feedhive.io",
              "desc": "AI-assisted social media scheduling and content platform.",
              "tags": []
            },
            {
              "title": "Fireflies.ai",
              "url": "https://fireflies.ai",
              "desc": "AI meeting assistant that records, transcribes and summarises calls.",
              "tags": []
            },
            {
              "title": "Genspark",
              "url": "https://www.genspark.ai/",
              "desc": "AI search and research agent that generates custom answer pages.",
              "tags": []
            },
            {
              "title": "Grammarly",
              "url": "https://grammarly.com",
              "desc": "AI writing assistant for grammar, tone and clarity.",
              "tags": []
            },
            {
              "title": "Hootsuite AI",
              "url": "https://hootsuite.com",
              "desc": "Social media management platform with AI content features.",
              "tags": []
            },
            {
              "title": "Jasper",
              "url": "https://www.jasper.ai",
              "desc": "AI content-generation platform for marketing teams.",
              "tags": []
            },
            {
              "title": "Looka",
              "url": "https://looka.com",
              "desc": "AI-powered logo and brand identity generator.",
              "tags": []
            },
            {
              "title": "n8n",
              "url": "https://n8n.io/",
              "desc": "Open-source workflow automation platform, self-hostable.",
              "tags": [
                "pick"
              ]
            },
            {
              "title": "Napkin",
              "url": "https://napkin.ai",
              "desc": "Turns written text into visual diagrams and graphics automatically.",
              "tags": []
            },
            {
              "title": "Notion AI",
              "url": "https://www.notion.so/product/ai",
              "desc": "AI writing and knowledge assistant built into Notion.",
              "tags": []
            },
            {
              "title": "Nyota",
              "url": "https://nyota.ai",
              "desc": "AI meeting assistant with notes, summaries and follow-up automation.",
              "tags": []
            },
            {
              "title": "Otter.ai",
              "url": "https://otter.ai",
              "desc": "AI meeting transcription and note-taking assistant.",
              "tags": []
            },
            {
              "title": "Reclaim.ai",
              "url": "https://reclaim.ai",
              "desc": "AI scheduling assistant that auto-blocks time for tasks and habits.",
              "tags": []
            },
            {
              "title": "tl;dv",
              "url": "https://tldv.io",
              "desc": "AI meeting recorder and summariser for video calls.",
              "tags": []
            },
            {
              "title": "Wordtune",
              "url": "https://www.wordtune.com",
              "desc": "AI writing assistant for rephrasing and improving text.",
              "tags": []
            },
            {
              "title": "NotebookLM",
              "url": "https://notebooklm.google.com/",
              "desc": "Google's AI research assistant that works from your own uploaded sources.",
              "tags": [
                "pick"
              ]
            },
            {
              "title": "Google AI Studio",
              "url": "https://aistudio.google.com",
              "desc": "Google's playground for building and testing with Gemini models.",
              "tags": []
            },
            {
              "title": "Ollama",
              "url": "https://ollama.com/",
              "desc": "Runs open-weight LLMs locally, so investigative data never leaves your machine.",
              "tags": [
                "cli",
                "self-hosted",
                "pick"
              ]
            }
          ]
        },
        {
          "title": "Translation",
          "slug": "translation",
          "tools": [
            {
              "title": "Bing Microsoft Translator",
              "url": "https://www.bing.com/translator",
              "desc": "Microsoft's free text and document translation service.",
              "tags": []
            },
            {
              "title": "DeepL Translator",
              "url": "https://www.deepl.com/translator",
              "desc": "High-quality AI translation service, strong on European languages.",
              "tags": [
                "pick"
              ]
            },
            {
              "title": "Google Translate",
              "url": "https://translate.google.com/",
              "desc": "The most widely used free translation service, supports 100+ languages.",
              "tags": []
            },
            {
              "title": "Yandex Translate OCR",
              "url": "https://translate.yandex.com/ocr",
              "desc": "Extracts and translates text directly from images.",
              "tags": []
            },
            {
              "title": "TurboScribe",
              "url": "https://turboscribe.ai/",
              "desc": "Transcribes audio and video into text, with translation support.",
              "tags": []
            }
          ]
        }
      ]
    }
  ]
}