# | CATERGORY | TITLE | DESCRIPTION | RATING | VIEW |
1 | Infrastructure & Framework Search Engines | OSINT Framework | OSINT Framework offers a classic tree-style index that organises hundreds of open-source intelligence resources by the type of data you begin with. Investigators branch out from a starting point such as an email address, username, domain or phone number to the right tool for the job. It is a free, browser-based directory widely used as the first stop in any OSINT workflow. | ||
2 | Infrastructure & Framework Search Engines | IntelTechniques | IntelTechniques provides Michael Bazzell's curated collection of online search tools, investigation workflows and training material for open-source intelligence and personal privacy. The site pairs practical search utilities with books and courses trusted across the investigative community. It has helped analysts, journalists and privacy-conscious individuals build repeatable, methodical research processes. | ||
3 | Infrastructure & Framework Search Engines | Bellingcat's Online Investigation Toolkit | Bellingcat's Online Investigation Toolkit is a journalist-vetted, continuously updated directory of verification, geolocation, archiving and social media research tools. Maintained by the renowned open-source investigation collective, it reflects methods proven in real newsroom investigations. It is an essential reference for reporters, researchers and human-rights investigators working with public evidence. | ||
4 | Infrastructure & Framework Search Engines | Maltego | Maltego is a link-analysis and entity-graphing platform that maps relationships between people, domains, infrastructure and social profiles in a single visual graph. A marketplace of data integrations extends its reach across dozens of public and commercial sources. A free Community Edition serves learners, while paid tiers support professional investigations at scale. | ||
5 | Infrastructure & Framework Search Engines | SpiderFoot | SpiderFoot automates open-source intelligence gathering by querying more than one hundred public data sources and correlating the results for you. Point it at a domain, IP address, email or name and it maps the target's exposed footprint automatically. It is available as free open-source software and as the hosted SpiderFoot HX service. | ||
6 | Infrastructure & Framework Search Engines | Recon-ng | Recon-ng is a modular, command-line reconnaissance framework that structures web-based information gathering into repeatable, scriptable workflows. Its module system lets security researchers automate discovery of hosts, contacts, credentials and related infrastructure. Free and open source, it is a staple of professional reconnaissance and penetration-testing toolkits. |



