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🇧🇷 OSINT Brasil — Tools Explorer

The world's largest free OSINT tools directory

License: MIT Tools Categories Languages PRs Welcome

🌐 Live Demo · 📱 Android · 💻 Desktop · 🐛 Report Bug · 💡 Request Feature

Read this in other languages: 🇧🇷 Português · 🇪🇸 Español · 🇨🇳 中文 · 🇯🇵 日本語

📋 Table of Contents

🔍 About

OSINT Brasil is a complete open-source platform for intelligence professionals, investigators, journalists, and cybersecurity researchers. It aggregates 2,369 Open Source Intelligence (OSINT) tools organized in 53 categories, with support for 30 languages, available as a web app, Windows desktop app, and Android app.

Tools are automatically merged from two sources:

🎯 Who is it for?

Profile Use Case
🕵️ Private investigators People search, public records, social media
📰 Journalists Fact-checking, source tracking
🔐 Cybersecurity professionals Threat intelligence, malware analysis, technical OSINT
🎓 Academic researchers Data collection, social network analysis
🏛️ Law enforcement Digital investigation, geolocation

✨ Features

  • 🔄 Auto-update — Merges from OSINT-Framework and awesome-osint on every launch

  • 🌍 30 languages — Portuguese, English, Spanish, French, German, Russian, Chinese, Japanese, Arabic and more

  • 📱 Cross-platform — Web, Windows and Android

  • 🔍 Real-time search — Search by name, description and tags across 2,369 tools

  • 📂 53 categories — Organized in thematic groups with expandable accordion sidebar

  • ⭐ Favorites — Save favorite tools with local persistence

  • 🎨 5 view modes — Grid, List, Table, Tree, Compact

  • 🌙 Dark / light theme — Persisted in localStorage

  • ♿ Accessibility — ARIA labels, skip links, full RTL support (Arabic, Persian)

  • 🔎 Aggressive SEO — Meta tags, Open Graph, Twitter Cards, hreflang for 31 languages

  • 📊 Real-time stats — Total tools, online/offline status, favorites count

  • 🔒 Rich metadata — OPSEC considerations, pricing (free/freemium), input/output types, best-for use cases

🛠️ Tech Stack

Layer Technology
Frontend React 18, Vite 5
Styling Tailwind CSS 3
Icons Lucide React
Desktop Electron 41
Mobile Capacitor 8 (Android)
Build electron-builder
Data GitHub API + local parseMD
State React Context API
Persistence localStorage

🚀 Quick Start

Prerequisites

Local development

# 1. Clone the repository
git clone https://github.com/azurejoga/osint-explorer.git
cd osint-explorer

# 2. Install dependencies
npm install

# 3. Start the dev server
npm run dev

Open http://localhost:5173

💾 Installation

🌐 Web

Access directly at osint.juanmathewsrebellosantos.com — no installation required.

💻 Desktop (Electron)

Download the Windows executable from the releases page:

Platform File Type
Windows OSINT Tools Explorer Setup X.X.X.exe Installer
Windows OSINT Tools Explorer X.X.X.exe Portable (no install needed)

📱 Android

Download the APK from the releases page and install it directly on your Android device (enable "Unknown sources" in Settings → Security).

🔧 Build

Full build (Electron + Android sync)

npm run build

Windows only (Electron)

npm run build:electron

Outputs to dist-electron/:

  • OSINT Tools Explorer Setup X.X.X.exe — NSIS installer
  • OSINT Tools Explorer X.X.X.exe — portable executable

Android

# Sync web assets to Android project
npm run build:android

# Open in Android Studio to generate APK/AAB
npm run android:open

Prerequisites for Android: Android Studio with SDK installed. Run npx cap add android once before the first build.

Web only

npm run build:web

Available scripts

Command Description
npm run dev Start Vite dev server
npm run build Full build (web + Electron + Android sync)
npm run build:web Web frontend only
npm run build:electron Web + Electron packaging
npm run build:android Web + Capacitor Android sync
npm run generate Generate tools.json from GitHub
npm run electron:dev Run Electron in dev mode
npm run android:open Open Android project in Android Studio
npm run preview Preview the web build

📁 Project Structure

osint-explorer/
├── electron/
│   └── main.js              # Electron main process
├── public/
│   └── data/
│       └── tools.json       # Auto-generated tool cache
├── scripts/
│   └── fetch-osint-md.js    # tools.json generator script
├── src/
│   ├── components/
│   │   ├── Header.jsx       # Navigation bar and controls
│   │   ├── Sidebar.jsx      # Categories and filters
│   │   ├── MainContent.jsx  # Tool listing
│   │   ├── LandingPage.jsx  # Landing page
│   │   └── Toast.jsx        # Notifications
│   ├── context/
│   │   └── AppContext.jsx   # Global application state
│   ├── data/
│   │   ├── categories.js    # 53 categories with i18n
│   │   └── i18n.js          # Translations for 31 languages
│   ├── hooks/
│   │   ├── useToolsLoader.js  # Tools data loader
│   │   └── useSEO.js          # Meta tag management
│   ├── utils/
│   │   └── parseMd.js       # awesome-osint README parser
│   └── App.jsx              # Root component
├── android/                 # Capacitor Android project
├── capacitor.config.json    # Capacitor configuration
├── vite.config.js           # Vite configuration
├── tailwind.config.js       # Tailwind configuration
└── package.json

🌍 Internationalization

31 languages supported with automatic fallback (English → Portuguese):

Code Language Code Language
pt Português 🇧🇷 ko 한국어 🇰🇷
en English 🇺🇸 ar العربية 🇸🇦
es Español 🇪🇸 hi हिन्दी 🇮🇳
fr Français 🇫🇷 bn বাংলা 🇧🇩
de Deutsch 🇩🇪 tr Türkçe 🇹🇷
it Italiano 🇮🇹 pl Polski 🇵🇱
nl Nederlands 🇳🇱 sv Svenska 🇸🇪
ru Русский 🇷🇺 no Norsk 🇳🇴
zh 中文 🇨🇳 zh-TW 繁體中文 🇹🇼
ja 日本語 🇯🇵 da Dansk 🇩🇰
fi Suomi 🇫🇮 cs Čeština 🇨🇿
uk Українська 🇺🇦 ro Română 🇷🇴
el Ελληνικά 🇬🇷 hu Magyar 🇭🇺
th ภาษาไทย 🇹🇭 vi Tiếng Việt 🇻🇳
id Bahasa Indonesia 🇮🇩 ms Bahasa Melayu 🇲🇾
fa فارسی 🇮🇷

Language is auto-detected from the browser and can be changed by the user. RTL languages (Arabic, Persian) have full dir="rtl" support.

🔎 SEO

  • Per-language dynamic meta tags (title, description, keywords)
  • Open Graph tags for social sharing
  • Twitter Cards
  • hreflang alternate links for all 31 languages
  • JSON-LD structured data (WebApplication schema)
  • Canonical URL

🤝 Contributing

Contributions are welcome! Read CONTRIBUTING.md to get started.

  1. Fork the project
  2. Create your feature branch (git checkout -b feature/my-feature)
  3. Commit your changes (git commit -m 'feat: add my feature')
  4. Push to the branch (git push origin feature/my-feature)
  5. Open a Pull Request

🔒 Security

Found a vulnerability? Read our Security Policy.

📄 License

Distributed under the MIT License. See LICENSE for details.

👤 Author

Juan Mathews Rebello Santos

🙏 Acknowledgments

Thanks to moscovium-mc for the major expansion from ~1,300 to 2,369 tools by merging OSINT-Framework data. Made with ❤️ in Brazil 🇧🇷 for the world 🌍

⭐ If this project helped you, please give it a star!

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