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2021 OSINT Website Updates
(This page was last updated on the 02/01/2023)This page displays the updates with details of any new OSINT / i3 techniques and resources and any new links to useful sites that we have added to our website during 2021.
December 2021
Added a page for Useful TikTok Related Sites & Links to our website.
Thanks to The SEINT on Twitter for this information.
Added details from their tweet about camera makers filenames to the Photo Related Sites & Links page of our website.
Thanks to Henk Van Ess on Twitter for this link.
Added a link for Google Lens to the Reverse Image Searching section of the Photo Related Sites & Links page of our website. Google Lens was previously only available as a smartphone app but now you can upload an image to Google Lens and search sections within an image.
November 2021
Added a link for www.peteyvid.com to the Video Related Sites page of our website. PeteyVid.com is a useful video search engine.
Made some changes to the website, with different terms in the side bar, with sections called, Company & Financial Related Sites / Creating Online Accounts / Cyber, Domains, Emails & IP Related Sites / People Related Sites / Phones, Mobiles & App Related Sites / Photo & Video Sites, hopefully this will make some pages easier to find.
Added a link for www.uksocialhousing.com to the Property Related Sites page of our website. UKSocialHousing is a free and useful searchable register of UK social housing properties.
Thanks to Cyber Detective on Twitter for this link.
Added a link for Translit.Net to the Free Online Written Language Translation Sites section of the Translator Sites page of our website. Translit is a free and useful way translating phrases and names using the Cyrillic alphabet.
Thanks to Henk Van Ess on Twitter for this link.
Added a link for WhoPostedWhat to the Turn A Twitter Account Name Into A Twitter ID Number section of the Twitter page of our website. WhoPostedWhat is a useful site to turn a twitter account name into a twitter ID number.
Thanks to Cyber Detective on Twitter for this link.
Added a link for generated.photos to the Random Profile Photos section of the Creating Online ID's page of our website. generated.photos is a free and simple way to create a fairly realistic human looking profile image.
Added a link for www.carnet.ai to the Other Useful Sites section of the Motor Vehicle Related Sites page of our website. CarNet is a useful site which can identify a vehicles make and model type from an uploaded image.
October 2021
Added a link for www.motorscan.co.uk to the UK - Vehicles MOT & Tax Details section on the Motor Vehicles page of our website. MotorScan allows you to search a UK vehicle registration number, to see when it was first registered (and when the ownership was last updated), if it is taxed & mot'd and the recent mot mileage etc.
Updated the Facebook page of our website, deleting some of the old links which were no longer working and adding some new ones.
Updated the pages for Flickr and YouTube on our website, deleting some of the old links which were no longer working and adding some new ones.
September 2021
Added a link for www.ros.gov.uk to the Genealogy Linked Sites page of our website. www.ros.gov.uk is the official Scottish government site where you can request a search to be made for any will registered in Scotland since 1993. Appears to costs around £30 and takes a week.
Added a link for www.vortimo.com to the OSINT Sites & Research Software page of our website. Vortimo appears to be a useful OSINT research software for the chrome browser, with online details of its features and a few useful video tutorials.
Added a link for www.commonlawcourt.com to the Genealogy Linked Sites page of our website. CommonLawCourt appears to be a UK site where people who want to live under common law, as opposed to statue, register their births and vehicles, sometimes with their full dates of birth, car registration details and post codes visible. It has a search option on the front page but may be best searched from a Google domain / site search, such as Here.
Have updated the Search Engines and the Privacy Checker pages of our website, deleting some of the old links which were no longer working and adding some new ones.
August 2021
Thanks to Cyber Detective on Twitter for this link.
Added a link for www.whatiswhere.com to the Other Useful Mapping Tools section on the Maps & Location Related Sites page of our website. whatiswhere.com is a useful interactive map showing over 100 points of interest and objects.
Have updated all of the Transport Related pages on our website, deleting some of the old links which were no longer working and adding some new ones. So there are now pages for Aircraft Related Sites, Bicycle Relates Sites & Links, Motor Vehicle Related Sites, Ships & Boat Related Sites and Train & Railway Related Sites & Links. Hopefully we will get a chance to add to them, adding links to more international sites. If you are aware of any useful sites which you think we should add then email us.
Thanks to OSINT Techniques on Twitter for this link.
Added a link for www.monstercrawler.com to the Search Engines page of our website. monstercrawler.com displays search results from many of the leading search engines but eliminates the duplicates.
Thanks to OSINT Techniques on Twitter for this link.
Added a link for www.bvsg.org to the Search Engines page of our website. bvsg.org displays Bing and Google results side-by-side.
Added links for www.namus.gov & www.services.rcmp-grc.gc.ca to the Missing People section on the Favorites page of our website. www.namus.gov & www.services.rcmp-grc.gc.ca are useful searchable missing people sites for America and Canada.
Made some changes to the website, so now the Banking & CryptoCurrency Sites page has become two separate pages at Banking Related Sites & CryptoCurrency Related Sites on our website. And we have moved some of the links to Map sites from the Favorites page and some of the Location sites from the Photo Related Sites to a new page at Maps & Location Related Sites on our website.
Thanks to OSINT Techniques on Twitter for this new link.
Added a link for www.webcamtaxi.com to the CCTV & Webcams section on the Internet Of Things Related Sites page of our website. WebCamTaxi links to open cctv & webcams around the world.
Added links for www.importyeti.com to the Company Related Sites page of our website. ImportYeti lets you search a company to see its suppliers and delivery details.
Thanks to Osint Stuff on Twitter for this new link.
Added a link for www.emporis.com to the Maps section on the Favorites page of our website. Emporis Buildings Map is an interactive map, showing a number of objects and buildings, displaying their height, number of floors and purpose etc.
Thanks to Osint Stuff on Twitter for this new link.
Added a link for www.nationalarchives.gov.uk to the Archive section on the Favorites page of our website. NationalArchives is the searchable site of the UK National Archives, with documents going back for a 1,000 years.
July 2021
Added a link for www.identitynumber.org to the Genealogy Linked Sites page of our website. www.identitynumber.org is a paid for site offering useful South African family research details.
Added a link for www.unscreen.com to the Remove Image Background section to the Photo Related Sites page of our website. unscreen allows you to freely and easily remove the background from a video clip, which can be used to highlight a person or item in it.
June 2021
Thanks to Callum for sending us this one.
Added a link for the Directory of Chartered Psychologists to the Medical Profession section of the Profession & Licensing Sites page of our website. The Directory of Chartered Psychologists is searchable via location and surname, to identify members offering Psychology services in the UK. Psychologists study cognitive, emotional, and social processes and behaviour by observing, interpreting, and recording how people relate to one another and to their environments.
Thanks to Baptiste Devigne on Twitter for this new Add-On.
Added a link for a Firefox Add-On called Facebook & Instagram OSINT to the Facebook page of our website. Facebook & Instagram OSINT by Geluchat, is a useful tool for obtaining a user's Facebook ID and for identifying Mutual Friends (who have publicly available Friends lists). Whilst it says that it works for both Facebook & Instagram so far I can only get it working for Facebook but as it appears to have only just come out it may have more functions added soon.
Annoyingly www.skypli.com, the site where you could search for Skype accounts by account name, email address and mobile number is not currently working, however if you have a Skype account then you can still search for an account from their desktop app.
Added a link for www.leolabs.space to the Satellite Tracking section on the Favorites page of our website. leolabs is a site showing live satellite information, visible via an image of the globe.
Thanks to Osint Stuff on Twitter for this new link.
Added a link for www.pastvu.com to the Odd Mapping Tools section of the Maps area on the Favorites page of our website. pastvu is a Russian site showing old / historical photographs for an area, searchable from a world map. The site contains over 1million photos taken all over the world, from as early as 1826.
Thanks to Osint Stuff on Twitter for this new link.
Added a link for www.onionsearchengine.com to the DarkWeb Search Engines & Link Sites section of the Dark Web Links page of our website. Onion Search Engine is a search engine for services accessible on the Tor network, hidden service lists and Onion sites.
Added a link to www.leadcrawler.io to the Email Format & Validators section on the Email Related Sites & Links page of our website. leadcrawler is a site which will search a domain name & website looking for linked email addresses.
May 2021
Thanks to pvoberstein on Reddit for these new links.
Added lots of useful links to the Wikipedia Related Sites section on the Favorites page of the website. These links are useful if you are investigating a Wikipedia page, its contents or a contributor.
Added sections for Firefox Add-Ons To Download Instagram Photos & Videos & Chrome Extensions To Download Instagram Photos & Videos to the Instagram page to the website. These Add-ons & Extensions make it easy to download photos and videos from Instagram accounts.
Added a section for Enhancing Images on the Photo Related Sites page to the website. These links are to a number of free online resources where you can sign-in and enhance images, which might make them clearer.
Thanks to the Osint Stuff on Twitter for this one.
Added a link to www.torwhois.com to the Other Sites section on the Dark Web Sites page to our website. TORWhoIs which may help locate WHOIS, DNS, http-headers, public keys and signatures for Darknet Onion sites.
Thanks to the Osint Stuff on Twitter for this one.
Added a link to www.seqe.me to the Other Popular Search Engines & Sites section on the Search Engines page to our website. SeQe is a site to assist constructing search queries using advanced search operators simultaneously for Google, Bing, Yahoo, Baidu & DuckDuckGo
Thanks to the OSINT Techniques on Twitter for this one.
Added a link to www.millionshort.com to the Other Popular Search Engines & Sites section on the Search Engines page to our website. MillionShort is a site which removes the top search engine results, which may be helpful in locating older, less popular information
Thanks to the Dutch Osint Guy Nico on Twitter for this one.
Added a link to www.lumendatabase.org to the Journalists (Useful Links) section of the Favorites page to our website. The lumen database collects and analyzes legal complaints and requests for removal of online materials, which may help identify material taken down & removed from online resources.
Added some more links to the Sports Related section to the Profession & Licensing Sites page to the website. These sites help you identify people who have represented their country at most levels of sport and often supply extra details, such as dates of birth and home clubs for those listed.
Added a link for IP-Trap to the IP Grabbers page to the website. IP-Trap is another useful site to obtain an online users IP Address.
Added a link for Skylens to the Photo Related Sites, Twitter and the Video Sites pages to the website. Skylens lets you search an area for any uploaded posts to sites including Flickr, Twitter, VK, YouTube and Weibo.
April 2021
Added a link for ProtOSINT to the Python Sites page to the website. ProtOSINT, created by Pixelbubble, checks is an entered Protonmail email address is a valid Protonmail email address and the date it was created.
Added a link for a new Parler Archive Search Site, created by @anonymousdata_, to the Parler section of the General Social Media Sites page of our website. This Parler Archive Search Site, created by @anonymousdata_, is a really useful research tool for Parler posts and accounts, up to the 10th of January 2021. You can search keywords, hashtags, users and phrases without you needing to be signed into Parler.
updated the Property Relates Sites page of our website, removed a few dead links and added some new ones for Scotland, Northern Ireland and Ireland.
Added a link for www.storysaver.net to the Download Instagram Stories section on the Instagram page of our website and removed a few dead links from that page.
Added a link for www.idcrawl.com to the People Search Sites page of our website. idcrawl lets you search by name as well as by screen name / account name, looking for any linked accounts.
Added some more French related social media sites to the European & UK Social Media Sites & Links page of our website, with links to Trombi and Copains D'Avant, which are both sites aimed at getting in touch with old school friends.
Have made quite a few changes to the Google Account ID's page of our website and have also added a new page, called Useful Python Sites For OSINT, where we will be adding some useful and easy to use python OSINT tools.
Epieos have combined their Gmail Account Details, Email Usage Finder and Email To Linkedin online tools into one online resource at their Epieos Email LookUp page. So this is an even more useful tool than before.
Added a link to HaveIBeenZucked to the Hacked Email & Online Accounts section on the Email page of our website. HaveIBeenZucked lets you search an email address, mobile number and account name to see if it was part of the 2019 Facebook data breach. The Facebook breach data has also been added to sites such like HaveIBeenPwned.
March 2021
Added a new section to the Video Sites page of our website, for YouTube Comments Searcher, with a link to SmallTubeTools, which makes it easy to search the comments made to an uploaded YouTube video.
Added a new section to the Company Related Sites page of our website, on accessing the EU Registers Of Beneficial Owners Of Companies / Legal Entities, which is from an article at www.blockint.nl by Ludo Block. Most of the links to these countries sites are free to search but are not in English.
Added a new section to the Linkedin & Similar Sites page of our website, on how to locate an Individuals Linkedin Account ID Number. So by viewing a Linkiedin account for an individual, you can obtain their Linkedin Account ID Number, known as a Member Number by viewing the Source Code (right click & View Page Source) of the account and searching for the term “member:” (without the “”). There will be around 90 results, go to the last one shown and you should find the Member Number displayed near to the subject’s name. It was previously easy to turn a Linkedin Account ID Number into a Linkedin account but this is no longer available but can be used to confirm an account is the same as one previously viewed.
Added a new section to the Instagram page of our website, to locate a users' Instagram Account ID Number by adding "/?__a=1" (without the quotes) in the URL / address bar after the account holders name, which will open a JSON page, which clearly displays in the first line, logging_page_id = "profilePage_????????" where the ?????? is the users' Instagram Account ID Number.
Added a section called UK Divorce Records to the bottom of the Genealogy Linked Sites page of our website, with links to sites on how to obtain details of UK divorces, which is quite limited, as the reason or grounds for a divorce and the content of the divorce petition are not a matter of public record.
February 2021
Those nice people at Epieos, who have previously given us the free online OSINT resource tools of the Google Account Finder, Phone Account Finder and the Email Usage Finder have added a new tool, the Email To Linkedin. It can be found Here. This will search an email address to identify any linked public Linkedin account, as long as the account has been activated to the "Profile discovery using email address" function for everyone. We have added a link for it to the Linkedin page of our website.
Added a section called Image Location Guessing Sites to the bottom of the Photo Related Sites page of our website. Sites like VirtualVacation will display random images or videos from various locations around the world and you can practice your investigative skills in identifying the city they were taken in.
Following a presentation by Dr Chung Pham on Vietnam, I have added some more social media sites popular amongst the Vietnamese community to the General Social Media Sites page of our website.
Got this site from OSINTtechniques on Twitter
Have added a link to www.justgetmydata.com to the Social Media Account Closers / Killers & How To Obtain Your Details From Sites section on the General Social Media Sites page of our website. justgetmydata is an easy to follow site with links and details on how to obtain your data from many of the most popular online sites, such as Facebook and Twitter. It also rates how difficult each is to use / contact to obtain your data.
Added a link for www.ros.gov.uk to the Scotland section on the Property Related Sites page of our website. This site offers an easy way to search for Scottish properties, to locate sale date & price details for free and ownership details for a charge.
Inspired by the OSINT Curious article on Facebook, I have updated the Facebook page of our website and put the Mutual Friends finds back on their.
Added some new links to the Useful Telegram Tools (groups & channels search sites) section of the Messenger Apps page of our website.
Added a link for www.you-tldr.com to the YouTube Transcriber section of the Video Sites page of our website.
you-tldr will transcribe a YouTube video, with limited functions provided with the free online service but many more functions with the paid for accounts.
Updated the Instagram page of our website and our training material, on how to obtain the date & time an image was uploaded to Instagram.
Added a heading for Assistance In Identifying A Location Shown In An Image to the Photo Related Sites page of our website. The links to these sites can be used to help identify different countries and locations shown in an image.
January 2021
Added a link for mattw.io - youtube metadata viewer to the YouTube Data Viewer section of the Video Sites page of our website. mattw.io - youtube metadata viewer allows you to easily locate everything about a video and its channel that is available from the YouTube API, providing useful details of dates, country codes, language codes, geolocation etc.
Added a link for www.corporationwiki.com to the International Company Information section of the Company Related Sites page of our website. corporationwiki.com allows you to find relationships between companies & people.
Made some changes to the website and added a page called OSINT Sites & Research Software, with a few useful links.
Added some Add-Ons & Extensions under the Audit Trail (online history recorders) section on the Add-Ons page of our website.
Made some changes to the Google Sites section of the Search Engines page of our website.
Made some changes to the View & Download A Large Version Of An Instagram Profile Image section of the Instagram page of our website.
Added a link for www.tfljamcams.net to the CCTV & Webcams section of the Internet Of Things Related Sites page of our website. tfljamcams has a map with links to live cctv operated by Transport For London, with a 3 month archive of still images taken every 6 minutes for each camera. Thanks to nixintel for this.
Been making a few changes to the Domain Names & IP Addresses page of our website and updating the linked module of our training.
We have added some new links to the International Maritime Organization to the Ships (& Boat) Related Sites page of our website. The International Maritime Organization website is free to join, which allows you search many useful areas of its site.
We have added some new links to the Personalised Mapping Tools area to the Maps section on the Favorites page of our website.
We are starting to update the Software page of our website.