Open Source Intelligence (OSINT) Tools & Resources

keyword research tools

General Search

National Search Engines

AI Search Engines

Niche Search Engines

  • fnd.io: Search within App Store and iTunes.
  • globalspec: Search engineering materials.
  • listennotes: Podcast Search Engine.
  • iconfinder: Icon search engine.
  • datasetsearch: Google dataset search engine.
  • PacketTotal: Search over 100,000 PCAP files .
  • memegine: The internet meme search engine.
  • Search-Engines-Scraper: A Python library that queries Google, Bing, Yahoo and other search engines and collects the results from multiple search engine results pages.

Privacy-oriented search engines

  • DuckDuckGo: Online investigators usually use it to search the surface web while using the Tor Browser.
  • Brave
  • presearch
  • Mojeek
  • Startpage: Fetch results from Google without tracking its users.
  • Qwant: Based in France.
  • Oscobo: Based in UK.
  • Swisscows:  Privacy safe WEB-search based in Switzerland.
  • Gibiru:  Uncensored and anonymous search engine.
  • Ecosia: A private search engine powered by Microsoft Bing
  • YaCy: A free search engine (open-source) software

Meta search engines

  • Excite
  • Searchall
  • Search
  • MetaGer
  • etools: Compile its results from major international search engines, keep user privacy by not collecting or sharing personal information of its users. This search engine is very fast and show a summary for each search query -on the right side- detailing the source of its results.
  • All the interne: query major search engines including shopping site like Amazon and eBay.
  • Metacrawler: Aggregate results from Google and Yahoo!.
  • My all search: Aggregates results through Bing, DuckDuckGo, AOL Search, Ask, Oscobo, Mojeek, ZapMeta, MetaCrawler.
  • Carrot2: Open Source Search Results Clustering Engine aggregate results from GoogleAPI, Bing API, eTools Meta Search, Lucene, SOLR, and more.
  • elocalfinder: Fetch results from Google, Yahoo!, Ask and Bing .
  • All-in-One
  • dogpile

FTP search engines

Files Search Engines

  • Faganfinder
  • slideshare: Scribd, Inc. provides access to millions of ebooks, audiobooks, podcasts, and documents.
  • eyedex: search in 2.3 PB of 18,710,542 files among 5,146,729 directories on 113 servers.
  • Meawfy: Search and discover files from Mega.nz with our intelligent crawler technology. Access over 9 million indexed files instantly.
  • bitsearch: The fastest torrent search engine with over 44,328,821 indexed torrents
  • grayhatwarfare: Search for Open Amazon s3 Buckets and their contents.
  • searchfiles
  • Mediafiretrend: Free Search Engine for Mediafire.
  • Search Shared
  • softarchive
  • scnlog
  • Diffnow: Compares and finds differences in text files and URLs.
  • PDFx: Extract references (pdf, url, doi, arxiv) and metadata from a PDF.
  • Aconvert: Analyze file format online.
  • dedigger: Find public files in Google Drive.
  • filesearch: File Upload Sites | File Search Engine.
  • filepursuit: Search the web for files, videos, audios, eBooks & much more.
  • Scribd: 200M+ documents and specialty resources.
  • uvrx: Search Megaupload, Rapidshare, Badongo, filefactory, depositfiles, easy-share, sharedzilla, gigasize, divshare, sendspace, yousendit, Mediafire, Zshare, 4shared, letitbit, drop, filesurf, hotshare, usaupload, savefile, bigupload, up-file, hyperfileshare, zippyshare, uploaded.to, uploading, sharebee, sharebomb, rapidspread, yourfilehost, Taringa and more in one easy search.
  • Findpdfdoc
  • freefullpdf: Find free scientific publications in PDF format.

Image Search Engines

Images shared across social media sites can be found in the following locations:

There are specialized sites that hold images appeared in the press and news media, to search for this type of images go to:

Reverse image search

Faces Search Engines

Stock photo search engines

Graphics search

Image Upscale Tools

Video Search Engines

Blog Search

Custom Search Engines

Internet Of Things (IoT) devices search engines

Exploits search engines

Dark Web Search Engines

You should download the TOR Browser first before you can access sites hosted on the TOR network.

News/Newspaper Search Engines

Fake News Detection

  • Snopes: Discovers false news, stories, urban legends and research/validate rumors to see whether it is true.
  • FactCheck: This site is partnered with Facebook to help identify and label fake news reported by its users. It also monitors different media for the false info covering a wide range of topics like health, science, hoaxes spread through Spam emails.
  • ReviewMeta: Analysis Amazon user reviews.
  • Reporter Lab: Gives a map of global fact-checking sites.
  • Truth Or Fiction: Discover fake news in different topics like politics, nature, health, space, crime, police and terrorism…etc.
  • Hoax-Slayer: Focuses on email scam and social media hoaxes.
  • Verification Handbook: A definitive guide to verifying digital content for emergency coverage available in different languages.
  • citizen evidence: tools and lessons to teach people how to authenticate user-generated online contents. Managed by Amnesty International.
  • poynter
  • Eufactcheck
  • knowyourmeme
  • getbadnews: This game educates users on disinformation techniques by letting them play as a fake news tycoon. The goal is to publish attention-grabbing headlines to gain the most followers.
  • Bot Sentinel: A free platform developed to detect and track trollbots and untrustworthy Twitter accounts.
  • Checkology: A project aims to help people determine the credibility of news and other information and to recognize the standards of fact-based journalism to know what to trust, share and act on.
  • ClaimBuster: Automated Live Fact-Checking.
  • CrashCourse Media Literacy Videos
  • The Hamilton 2.0 dashboard

Patent Search Engines

Web Directories

News Archives

Translation services

Business Search

Business Annual Records

Business Profiles

Grey literature

Grey information includes the following -and more (Academic papers, preprints, proceedings, conference & discussion papers, research reports, marketing reports, technical specifications and standards, dissertations, theses, trade publications, memoranda, government reports and documents not published commercially, translations, newsletters, market survey, draft version of books, articles.

Most important Grey literature (academic and scholarly resources) websites can be found in the following list:

Data Leak Websites

Pastebin sites