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It's a public profile and I am struggling with getting all of these. Have tried Instant Data Scraper but seems to time out frequently and only made it up to 2600 or so.
Also, does anyone know in what order the friends are listed? I think it's in chronological order by when theyr friended but wanted to confirm.
Thanks!
Any tips on how to find the head of the hacking group from these coordinates in a CTF challenge? Original description: We've got the coordinates of the dead drop. Could this lead us to the head of the hacking group? Maybe he's in the vicinity on a regular basis. Coordinates: 26°23'41.2"N 15°46'57.8 "E
I am trying to find the website for a company I know existed more than 10 years ago. I have some text I can use to help with my search (business name, name of owner, address, etc.). My understanding is that Wayback Machine supports site search. However, it doesn't seem to do this and does not bring up any results.
Is there any way to search within websites on Archive.org, or am I maybe just searching in the wrong place?
I'm also open to any other ideas on how to find this information. Guessing the domain did not work. The business name is quite generic, making a standard search also difficult. I was hoping I could input a phone number or address to find the site.
EDIT-- Found the website via Mapquest, but still curious if there is a way to search within websites on Archive.org.
https://waybacktweets.streamlit.app/
This tool works. It is able to retrieve tweets on waybackmachine, for a twitter user. If displays 25 per page due to the wbm API.
Is there anyone here that can help adding code, to run this as an automated tool, that can query a user, and retrieve the image and url of each tweet on each page, for as many pages as that user has?
I want to search for a specific username on an app called Lex.
I know there are many tools to search for a username across many social media sites, but I haven't found any that include Lex.
I have done a little digging into trying to reverse engineer a URL that links to a specific username, but haven't had any success.
Anyone have suggestions?
The OSINT Guide seems like a kinda obscure book but I think it has a lot that I haven't seen elsewhere among OSINT books., like ways to find OSINT that isn't discoverable using search engines.
Anyone else read this one? thoughts? alternatives?
Sharing a job posting at Stony Brook University. We are looking for an entry to mid level intelligence specialist. OSINT experience is valued! Share with anyone you know who might be interested.
I use builtwith to build software fingerprints for websites, but they’re insanely cost prohibitive, and they’re often incorrectly profiling websites (scripts removed, ie: old scans).
The problem is that that have a reaaally comprehensive dataset on companies. Which would be important for enterprises but doesn’t matter as much to me (small biz) if we’re talking about a provider with less scan latency.
Any alternatives that folks are using?
Sadly, I do not know how to run scripts to install/use any "tools", so I am restricted to only websites (unless someone can give me a QRD of how I can do so or point me in the direction of a tutorial that isn't trying to teach me an entire coding language) but I was wondering if there is anything like birdhunt that allows you to see things posted from a certain /geocode/.
Birdhunt is great and all but there wasn't much posted from the area on twitter, and it was all very old. I don't necessarily need brand new up to the current second information, but I do need better than what twitter/x had.
Anything at all would help. I don't know if there's a dork for this either. I tried looking but Google didn't return much about it with geocodes, so maybe there's another way to search that isn't via geocode specifically?
long story short I cant register my account on Maltego because my country isn't on the list
so if its possible to someone to help me with this issue.
'thank you in advance'
Hey r/OSINT,
Eons ago I posted about my snapmap-archiver tool. Today I'm proud to bring you version 2.2.0!
In a nutshell: throw in some coordinates, get back all the public Snaps in the area.
Version 2.2.0 has some QoL improvements, bug fixes, and generally better code. It also includes the ability to filter Snaps by timestamp and export their associated location string. You can try it out @ https://github.com/king-millez/snapmap-archiver/releases/tag/2.2.0
I recently was shown a OSINT website that listed other sub categories inside circles that contained more circles with website links. I unfortunately did not write down the URL.
Does anyone know the website I’m describing? Thanks in advanced
What search service or data broker has the most up to date data on phone numbers by name? All the sites I’ve been using are returning older/stale information. Any sites that could return accurate number information on a number issued 6-8 weeks ago?
How can you avoid impostor syndrome in OSINT?
I wonder which platforms to look into, and is it worth it? Funny that an OSINT guy asking where to look?
I’ve been learning and doing OSINT for a year now (and LOVE it) but looking to get into something else that would go good with OSINT if that makes any sense. I see a lot of people in Cybersecurity but not sure if that’s for me, any other suggestions?
is it possible to find a bumble account which is linked to someone's instagram account?
for example: i opened a bumble account, linked my insta there, now i get notifications on my insta (under the third party app section). is it possible to trace that bumble account from that instagram account?
Hi everyone!
Does anyone have experience with the new SL Crimewall tool?
I saw an older post discussing some of SL's tools before and wanted to see if anyone had come across this new term.
I never get a result when looking for an email address from a phone number. Will the paid EPIEOS search more broadly and return results? Also, I have heard things about Spokeo and Peoplefinder, what is your go-to? Thanks
I'm trying to find the email addresses for people belonging to a neighborhood but I'm having difficulty being able to link the information I found to an email address.
I'm able to get the person's name and their home address using the state's/counties online website and tying it to a Facebook group for that community. For some of them, I'm also able to find their LinkedIn and Instagram account but I'm unable to figure out where to get their email address.
Any tips, tools, or steps I should be taking to discover their email address?
idk if its just the tools im using but reverse image searching seems to be damn near useless, almost nothing actually gives me any meaningful results unless its something basic that gets sent around a fair bit. ive tried a bunch of different apps and sites but its almost always either 0 results or just random "similar" results that arent what im looking for
Does anyone know which companies are providing OSINT analysts and trainers to DIA?
I'm mostly in the OSINT community for geolocation fun, but have been somewhat stumped by this interior from the game Tomodachi Life, which is clearly a photo sphere of a real-life location. The streamer Big Yellow recently mentioned wanting to know where this was taken, and I thought I'd rise to the challenge, but the low quality of the images and the lack of streetview/similar data at places where this could be has me turning to you all for help. If anyone has any techniques or thoughts on where it is, please let me know! My best guess is the Swiss prealps or Alps proper, given the appearance of limestone cliffs, wild (feral) horses, and general vibe.