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What is OSINT?

Open source intelligence (“OSINT”) is intelligence derived from open sources. Intelligence refers to raw information that has been analyzed or contextualized. Open source refers to information that virtually anyone can access, usually over the internet.

OSINT’s definition is often extended to other forms of information/data, which may be publicly available and “free”, but which require something like registering with an email in order to obtain it.

What is MetaOSINT?

MetaOSINT is a free and openly available aggregation of "top" tools & resources intended to help jumpstart OSINT investigations. MetaOSINT was built by a former OSINT analyst & investigator to help answer questions like "I wonder if there’s a way to find __ specific piece of information online?"

By compiling and prioritizing among thousands of tools and resources, MetaOSINT seeks to help OSINT practitioners intuitively surface the most relevant resources much more quickly. MetaOSINT was published in June 2021 and received major updates around its first anniversary.

It's like OSINT on OSINT - so meta!

Contribute

MetaOSINT now invites contributions from the community! Thank you for helping expand this resource. If you have a great OSINT tool or site that isn't included yet, please submit the details via this form:

Methodology

MetaOSINT v2 contains resources from three source buckets, which vary in confidence level and potential bias:

• MetaOSINT: In 2021, the project's author conducted a survey of nearly 30 lists of OSINT tools & resources, with a goal of identifying overlapping concentrations of tools. The lists contained a staggering 17,000 source links, 11,000 of which were unique. The v1 MetaOSINT dataset highlighted 4,800+ of these resources cited multiple times across the lists, as well as a few hundred more cited once and with some discernible topic/categorization. Resources derived from this bucket contain a citation count in the table feature.
• Social Share: v2 introduces mechanisms to poll social media platforms for potentially relevant resources as a way of continuing to expand the dataset. There is some potential for noise/false positives/less-relevant results here, but initial test sets have provided a useful supplement to the v1 data.
• Manual: To fill remaining data gaps, a small number of resources will be added manually.

Inspiration & Acknowledgments

• Thanks to all OSINT community members who build, compile, and freely share tools & resources, especially the publishers of the lists that fed the v1 dataset.

Praise for MetaOSINT

Here are over 4000 #OSINT resources 👀. What a goldmine!

Use responsibly.https://t.co/sYyRYnwHxF

— SpiderFoot (@spiderfoot) May 23, 2022

With only minutes to spare, but a nice cup of coffee in my hand while I press the "schedule" button, I present to you another Week in #OSINT!

H/T: @lautyb @Os2Int @IntelScott @kirbstr @Gralhix @offtopicvideos @osintbearhttps://t.co/9Qp1mjmbXG

— 𝕊𝕖𝕔𝕥𝕠𝕣𝟘𝟛𝟝 (@Sector035) May 30, 2022

This collection of #OSINT tools from @IntelScott is ace, thanks for creating this! https://t.co/2zSBMyTuA0

— Nick (@isitborked) May 27, 2022

[#DailyOSINT - Day#140] This guy @IntelScott did what we all have wanted to do for a long time. Seriously, this site alone worths 5k #OSINT tweets. He has created a MASSIVE(!) list of OSINT tools combining already existent OSINT lists. https://t.co/UtXFPBcp4C Well done my friend!

— White Hat Inspector (@WHInspector) June 20, 2021

🕵️ Collection of 4000+ OSINT resources

🔗 https://t.co/aNcJspUaJ1#OSINT #redteam #Pentesting #bugbounty #infosec #cybersecurity pic.twitter.com/DKnBwRraIO

— payloadartist (@payloadartist) May 26, 2022