Our take
Activeregular commits and releases- Activity
- 60
- Community
- 77
- Issues
- 46
- Pull requests
- 46
+825 stars in the last 30 days
- More contributors than 77% of the projects we track
This is a useful, actively maintained discovery index with broad coverage, but it points to third-party resources rather than providing an integrated investigation workflow.
Good fit if
- You want a categorized starting point for finding OSINT resources across cyber, social, and general research.
- You are comfortable evaluating individual tools and services for accuracy, access, and suitability.
- You value an established community-maintained list with regular commits and releases and contributions from many people.
Look elsewhere if
- You need software that collects, correlates, or analyzes intelligence for you, rather than a directory of links.
- You need a single tool with documented runtime requirements, tests, or a deployment workflow. The repository metadata lists none of these.
- You need a project with a clearly asserted license. The available license metadata is NOASSERTION.
All health signals
| Last commit | 2026-10-06 (today) |
|---|---|
| Commits, last 90 days | 71 |
| Releases, last 12 months | 5 (latest v1.0.6, 2026-04-14) |
| Contributors | 100+ (top contributor: 55% of commits) |
| Issues closed, last 90 days | 1+ |
| Project age | 9 years |
Checked on 2026-10-06 with the GitHub API.
Project history
Daily GitHub snapshots since Oct 7, 2026. History covers stars and forks; health signals are not tracked historically.
Stars
31,062Forks
4,313Change since Nov 13, 2026: +26 stars·+2 forks
Overview
jivoi/awesome-osint is a categorized directory of public tools, services, and reference material for open-source intelligence. It helps researchers discover possible sources for questions such as where a username appears, what public information is available about a domain, or how to investigate a cyber threat.
This is a discovery guide, not an OSINT collection or analysis application. Its many categories span search, social platforms, people and company research, cyber threat intelligence, mapping, and other specialist topics. Check each linked service's capabilities and terms before relying on it.
Key Features
- Organizes resources into a broad table of contents, making it easier to browse by research task.
- Covers general, national, privacy-focused, specialty, and dark web search engines.
- Includes tools for username checks, social media research, and searches related to people, email, and phone numbers.
- Lists cyber-focused sources for exposed assets, domains, IPs, breaches, threat actors, and live threat maps.
- Includes resources for geospatial research, image and video work, news, web history, and data visualization.
- Provides a contribution guide for proposing additional resources.
Use Cases
- A threat hunter can browse the threat intelligence and exposed-asset categories when looking for public research sources.
- An investigator can use the username, social media, or people-research sections to identify services that may help verify public clues.
- A researcher starting an OSINT project can survey relevant categories before selecting tools for a particular question.
- An instructor or team lead can use the list as a starting point for teaching or sharing OSINT resources, while checking each service independently.
Getting Started
Open the repository README and choose a category relevant to your research. The project has no installation or runtime setup listed.
License in Plain Words
No standard license was detected. Without a license, the default copyright rules apply: you may read the code, but not reuse it. Check the repository or ask the authors.
Alternatives
- mitaka: Mitaka is an interactive browser extension for searching selected indicators, while awesome-osint is a broad directory of OSINT resources.
- maigret: Maigret automates username searches across websites, while awesome-osint catalogs resources for many OSINT workflows.
- GHunt: GHunt focuses on investigating Google-related data, while awesome-osint covers a wide range of OSINT tools and sources.
| Project | Language | License | Stars | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| awesome-osint | – | – | 30k | Active |
| mitaka | TypeScript | MIT | 1.9k | Active |
| maigret | Python | MIT | 38.2k | Active |
| GHunt | Python | Other | 19.6k | Quiet |
Considerations
- Resource listings can change in availability, access conditions, or usefulness. Verify a service and its terms before using it, especially for sensitive investigations.
- The repository is actively maintained, with recent commits and releases, and its contributor base is not concentrated around one person. Issue closure activity is limited in the measured period, so do not assume a particular support response time.
- GitHub reports the license as
NOASSERTION; review the repository and individual linked resources for applicable reuse terms.
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