Filmot

I already did a tweet about YouTube's subtitle search engine a few years ago, but since then it's very much expanded its functionality and increased its search index:

1.33 billion transcripts
1.18 billion videos
72 million channels

https://filmot.com/

#socmint

List of academic databases and search engines

A list of dozens of the largest online tools for finding scholarly articles in a wide variety of disciplines.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_academic_databases_and_search_engines

#research #science

Very large database of people related to financial markets (only by name is john more than 75 thousand people), with full names, work addresses and other details

+ large database of companies

(you can even search by two letters of a name)

https://brokercheck.finra.org/

#finint

DuckDuckGo now has a filter to hide AI-generated images from image search results. Hopefully, this feature will soon become a standard for all search engines and for all types of searches.

The Pika's OSINT ToolBox

- username
- email
- phone
- image
- social
- chat
- gaming
- location
- corporate
- hostings
- data breaches

https://github.com/passthesh3ll/The-Pika-s-OSINT-ToolBox

#osint #socmint

Yesterday, there was a post on Reddit about Google allowing to search private (shared by link) ChatGPT conversations. Today, this no longer works on Google, but it does work on some other search engines.

Reverse Image Searching Related Sites & Links

List by UKOSINT :

- Reverse Image Searching
- Using AI To Identify A Location Shown In An Image
- Facial Reverse Image Searching On Social Media
- Remove Image Background

and more.

https://www.uk-osint.net/reverseimagesearching.html

European Commission Competition Policy Case Search Tool

Search 68506 decisions by company name, case number and case title.

Lots of information about different companies, both European and those with ties to Europe.

https://competition-cases.ec.europa.eu/search

#osint

Google Custom Search Engines for #OSINT

- Social Search (Global)
- Most Wanted and Sanctioned
- Stats and Docs
- Wikileaks
- Fact-checks
- File Sharing and Clouds
- Webcam Search
- Pastebin

https://github.com/paulpogoda/OSINT-CSE

Contributor t.me/pavelbannikov

Filesec

Encyclopedia of file extensions. For each file, it indicates the types of attacks and platforms for which this extension can be used.

It clearly shows that almost any file can be malicious.

https://filesec.io/

#cybersecurity

Most of my readers probably know Osint Ambition and Dheeraj Yadav.

In May this year, they gathered several thousand participants for the Osintcon online conference.

Osintcon will be back in November. You can register for free right now.

https://osintconference.com/

#osint

Space Frontiers

AI assistant* to search for answers to questions in a specific dataset. Choose one - PubMed, BioMed, Wikipedia, Telegram, Reddit or other).

https://spacefrontiers.org/

* Gemini 2.5, Kimi K2, Qwen 3.0, Grok 4, GLM 4.5

One of the methods to search for images of a person by first and last name:

Use Google Advanced
https://www.google.com/advanced_image_search

Select "Tall" aspect ration

Select "Face" type of image

Try spelling the person's last/first name in different languages

Kagi

Privaсy focused search engine that aggregates results from different sources. Has many advanced search filters and many search types, including map search.

100 free searchers.

https://kagi.com/

#searchengines

Image Upscaling & Restoration using GFPGAN Algorithm

Hugging Face space that restores blurred images. The faces are sometimes looks creepy, but more natural than many similar tools.

https://huggingface.co/spaces/nightfury/Image_Face_Upscale_Restoration-GFPGAN

Nanonets OCR

Hugging Face space for particularly heavy text recognition tasks in Images/PDFs. Good at reading tilted, blurred and other unreadable text.

https://huggingface.co/spaces/MohamedRashad/Nanonets-OCR

Kagi Translator

- fast and high quality online translator
- customise translation style, formality, gender preferences and context
- 230+ languages + a lot of dialects (12 Arabic, 4 Italian etc)

https://translate.kagi.com/

(20000 characters one time FREE, no login required)

Tell me what apps you use to take notes on investigations.

Feel free to talk about your own developments and give simple answers such as (pen and paper, a simple text editor, Notion).

Obsidian OSINT Templates & Plugins

- Sample Obsidian Graph
- Entities
- Properties
- Learn Obsidian for OSINT
- Best Practices
- Recommended Plugins
- Obsidian Basics

https://github.com/resistec/obsidian-osint-templates

#osint #obsidian

Obsidian OSINT Templates
Obsidian - is a tool for managing the knowledge base, tasks and projects. Many #osint professionals use it in their work. This templates help organise the information gathering about a domain or person

https://github.com/WebBreacher/obsidian-osint-templates/

Creator twitter.com/WebBreacher

TattoDo

A very large (!) database of tattoos from around the world. Even for rare requests, there is an endless feed of posts from tattoo artists who share their work. Useful as an additional source of information for identifying people with tattoos.

https://www.tattoodo.com/