awesome-osint
:scream: A curated list of amazingly awesome OSINT (by jivoi)
TWINT
An advanced Twitter scraping & OSINT tool written in Python that doesn't use Twitter's API, allowing you to scrape a user's followers, following, Tweets and more while evading most API limitations. (by twintproject)
| awesome-osint | TWINT | |
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| 44 | 77 | |
| 16,416 | 13,272 | |
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| 7.4 | 0.0 | |
| 7 days ago | almost 2 years ago | |
| Python | ||
| GNU General Public License v3.0 or later | MIT License |
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Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.
awesome-osint
Posts with mentions or reviews of awesome-osint.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-03-21.
- OSINT List Repository Including Specialty Search Engines for Use in Penetration Testing and Other Purposes
- Seeking For OSINT Tools
- Hey guys a little upset (divorce post)
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NAACP sues Minneapolis, alleging covert social media surveillance by cops
You can even get in on the fun yourself!
- Can someone help me understand what is OSINT good for, and also a list of curated resources to get into it?
- What are some good websites for osint??
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who was in the wrong here?
Linking them together? Probably some form of Open Source Intelligence.
- Learning from and paying the vigilantes
- Hey I'm new not sure if it has been mentioned before but there is a great web based OSINT Resource, tools from EVERY CATEGORY.
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Maigret: an easy-to-use and powerful OSINT tool for collecting a dossier on a person by username instant from thousands of sites.
Please note that using maigret from github you violate the copyright of the Snoop Project (because its database is illegally used there - the most valuable thing in this software).
TWINT
Posts with mentions or reviews of TWINT.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-04-25.
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Twitter will be purging accounts with no activity for several years soon. We need to archive as many as we can. Any ideas on Methods
twint is a project that can scrape twitter data via the webpages rather than the twitter API, which means that it can get more than the last 3200 tweets of an account. Unfortunately it seems that the repo was archived and is no longer in development, so I'm not sure if it even still works. It's also a bit heavy on dependencies and is written in Python, neither of which make it easier to install and use.
- How Do I Use Twint?
- NYC's transport authority will no longer post service alerts on Twitter
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New OSINT tool
The tool doesn't work anymore since Twitter changed its APIs, but a good example is twint. Most people in OSINT are not highly technical and don't know their way around a CLI. On the other hand, a CLI tool is one of the quickest, lowest (dev) cost ways to release a tool to the public, and many developers who build tools for the OSINT community do so for free (open source).
- Show HN: Twitter API Reverse Engineered
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What’s currently the best method to archive a twitter account?
You can try twint which is extensive and should be able to do that. Another is via this twitter downloader but might require multiple runs depending on what you want to archive.
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Gbf.life will be gone at the end of April
They do have examples that don't specify a username such as number 3 on this page or this one on the main page: "twint -g="48.880048,2.385939,1km" -o file.csv --csv - Scrape Tweets from a radius of 1km around a place in Paris and export them to a csv file."
- Do I have to pay now for the Twitter API if I want to use it for data analysis?
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Twitter’s $42,000-per-Month API Prices Out Nearly Everyone | Tiers will start at $500,000 a year for access to 0.3 percent of the company’s tweets. Researchers say that’s too much for too little data
This will motivate researchers to web scrape to circumvent these restrictions. Twint can scrape tweets and it supports proxies. It can also be multi threaded. A huge hassle and it's prone to breaking when the site changes.
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Basically the current state of granblue
The comment I saw said they used this: https://github.com/twintproject/twint
What are some alternatives?
When comparing awesome-osint and TWINT you can also consider the following projects:
holehe - holehe allows you to check if the mail is used on different sites like twitter, instagram and will retrieve information on sites with the forgotten password function.
snscrape - A social networking service scraper in Python
sherlock - 🔎 Hunt down social media accounts by username across social networks
Scweet - A simple and unlimited twitter scraper : scrape tweets, likes, retweets, following, followers, user info, images...
seeker - Accurately Locate Smartphones using Social Engineering
newspaper - newspaper3k is a news, full-text, and article metadata extraction in Python 3. Advanced docs:
Mastodon - Your self-hosted, globally interconnected microblogging community
twitterscraper - Scrape Twitter for Tweets
PENTESTING-BIBLE - articles
gallery-dl - Command-line program to download image galleries and collections from several image hosting sites
social-analyzer - API, CLI, and Web App for analyzing and finding a person's profile in 1000 social media \ websites
trafilatura - Python & command-line tool to gather text on the Web: web crawling/scraping, extraction of text, metadata, comments