If you are interested in developing #osint tools (or #osint in general), I recommend you to subscribe to github.com/soxoj. He is one of the #opensource developers who have made huge contributions to the #osint community.
In this thread🧵 I'll talk about his main projects.
🧵(1/8) Maigret
One of the world's most versatile tools for searching social media accounts by username:
- support more than 2500+ sites;
- profiles pages parsing;
- extraction of personal info.
1C is a very popular accounting/docs management software in the CIS countries. This tool will help you quickly convert 1C files to CSV (with many options to choose from)
Template for creating your own #osint#python#cli tool:
- detailed readme
- process N targets from args, text files, stdin
- make TXT, CSV reports
- proxy support
- ready to publish Python package
Today I finally got my act together and put my collection's headings in order (although there's still work to be done). There are now more than a hundred sections.
Dozens of different distributions are available as Virtual Machines and you can try them in 5-15 minutes (taking into account the time to download, configure and run).
(and there are also ready-made Live USB images)
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Excuse 2. Hard to install Apps
There are now app stores for Linux that allow you to quickly install all the essentials (office applications, messengers etc) just as quickly as you can in the App Store or Google Play.
9 good APIs (Application Programming Interfaces) for #OSINT
(FREE or partially FREE)
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Before I start listing, let me remind that you don't have to open a command line or write code to test the API. You can simply use one of the many online tools.
FREE API returns creation date, updated date, expiration date, domain age, the contact information of the registrant (address, phone, email) and much more
The U.S. Department of Labor's official database, which contains information on the annual income of employees who came to work in the U.S. on H1B1 visas
Positions even remotely related to #osint are quite few. But you can find something related to intelligence in general. And, of course, there are many positions for analysts of various profiles.
The highest paying positions among H1B1 visa holders are in the medical field. In first place is a neurosurgeon with an average salary (data from more than 100 fillings) of $612,080
Open Source Intelligence (#osint) is based on the use of hundreds of open source tools. In my experience, the main problem of good #opensource tools is extremely LOW number of users.
In this thread I will tell how independent developers find their audience (free)🧵🧵⬇️ (1/14)
(2/14) Check how your product runs outside your computer.
For starters, try opening your Github repository at Gitpod.io (it's free online #Ubuntu).
This will show what the user will need to install to run
Ex: the Python modules to include in requirements.txt
(3/14) Test your product on different operating systems
Ideally, you should install several virtual machines on your computer. VM images can be found here: