Flying cranes
Week of 27 February — 5 March 2026
Every week, I manually curate tools, research, and services that are genuinely useful for OSINT, digital investigations, security research, and adjacent fields.
No hype. No SEO noise. No "AI startups that change everything".
Only things you can open, verify, and actually use.
A first step for investigations into organized crime, corruption, trafficking, and global risk networks.
Tesari is designed as an entry point into complex investigations: structure, context, and navigable intelligence instead of chaotic searching.
Not everything you need is indexed by Google. Especially when it comes to the Russian-language part of the internet. Mamont is a Russian search engine built for deep searching, including archived pages, old websites, and large file database 🔗 https://www.mmnt.ru/
OSINT Newsletters by Ubikron 🔗 https://github.com/ubikron/OSINT-newsletters
List of OSINT Capture The Flag platforms by Ubikron 🔗 https://github.com/ubikron/OSINT-CTFs
OSINT of Lithuania by Unishka Research Service 🔗 https://unishka.substack.com/p/osint-of-lithuania
Ladybird is a truly independent web browser, using a novel engine based on web standards 🔗 https://github.com/LadybirdBrowser/ladybird
WebVM is a virtual Linux environment running in the browser via WebAssembly. WebVM is powered by the CheerpX virtualization engine, which enables safe, sandboxed execution of x86 binaries, fully client-side. CheerpX includes an x86-to-WebAssembly JIT compiler, a virtual block-based file system, and a Linux syscall emulator 🔗 https://webvm.io/
A live Polymarket map for visualizing geopolitical prediction markets. Polyglobe is a first-of-its-kind OSINT market tracker and interactive dashboard that plots live Polymarket data onto a beautiful 3D globe. It was designed for traders, analysts, and journalists who need to see the financial impact of geopolitical events as they unfold, in real-time 🔗 https://www.pizzint.watch/polyglobe
Revelar (Origin Reveal PRO) is a professional Go-based CLI tool for uncovering real/origin IP addresses of websites behind CDNs such as Cloudflare, Akamai, Fastly, Imperva, and AWS CloudFront. It combines passive reconnaissance, heuristic analysis, and optional active verification to provide comprehensive reports in JSON and HTML formats 🔗 https://github.com/MRvirusIR/Revelar
GHOST. Global Human Operations & Surveillance Tracking: Open-source investigation management platform for tracking people, connections, and intelligence data. Because Excel spreadsheets are for accountants, not investigators. Non-commercial license 🔗 https://github.com/elm1nst3r/GHOST-osint-crm
SmolDocling OCR App built using SmolDocling 256M Model and Streamlit 🔗 https://github.com/AIAnytime/SmolDocling-OCR-App
zPDF. Zero-copy PDF text extraction library written in Zig. High-performance, memory-mapped parsing with SIMD acceleration 🔗 https://github.com/Lulzx/zpdf
ArrowDL (Arrow Downloader) is a download manager for Windows, MacOS and Linux 🔗 https://github.com/setvisible/ArrowDL/
mdream. The fastest HTML to markdown convertor built with JavaScript. Optimized for LLMs and supports streaming 🔗 https://github.com/harlan-zw/mdream
Open TrashMail. Open Source standalone trashmail solution that ships its own mail server 🔗 https://github.com/HaschekSolutions/opentrashmail
BillionMail. An Open-Source MailServer, NewsLetter, Email Marketing Solution for Smarter Campaigns 🔗 https://github.com/be3beke/BillionMail
GraphQL Grip. Burp Suite extension for GraphQL security testing. Fetch schemas, fingerprint backends, generate attack payloads 🔗 https://github.com/thecybersandeep/graphql-grip
VulnX is an intelligent Bot, Shell can achieve automatic injection, and help researchers detect security vulnerabilities CMS system. It can perform a quick CMS security detection, information collection (including sub-domain name, ip address, country information, organizational information and time zone, etc.) and vulnerability scanning 🔗 https://github.com/anouarbensaad/vulnx
CRACKAR. Advanced Multi-Vector Penetration Testing Tool 🔗 https://github.com/codingcreatively/crackar/tree/main
AI Agent Tools. A curated collection of AI tools, utilities, and resources for developers and creators 🔗 https://github.com/cporter202/ai-agent-tools
Agent Viewer. Kanban board for managing Claude Code agents in tmux 🔗 https://github.com/hallucinogen/agent-viewer
OpenClaw Studio. A clean web dashboard for OpenClaw. Connect your Gateway, manage agents, and ship faster 🔗 https://github.com/grp06/openclaw-studio
ChatGPT-MD. A (nearly) seamless integration of ChatGPT into Obsidian 🔗 https://github.com/bramses/chatgpt-md
Full Augment Code, Claude Code, Cluely, CodeBuddy, Comet, Cursor, Devin AI, Junie, Kiro, Leap.new, Lovable, Manus, NotionAI, Orchids.app, Perplexity, Poke, Qoder, Replit, Same.dev, Trae, Traycer AI, VSCode Agent, Warp.dev, Windsurf, Xcode, Z.ai Code, Dia & v0. (And other Open Sourced) System Prompts, Internal Tools & AI Models 🔗 https://github.com/x1xhlol/system-prompts-and-models-of-ai-tools
Murmure. Fully local, private and cross platform Speech-to-Text with LLM Post-processing 🔗 https://github.com/Kieirra/murmure
VibeProxy. Native macOS menu bar app to use your Claude Code & ChatGPT subscriptions with AI coding tools - no API keys needed 🔗 https://github.com/automazeio/vibeproxy
Authelia. The Single Sign-On Multi-Factor portal for web apps, now OpenID Certified 🔗 https://github.com/authelia/authelia
Kapso. WhatsApp API for developers 🔗 https://kapso.ai/
Give your OpenClaw AI agent a WhatsApp number. Official Meta Cloud API via Kapso. No ban risk 🔗 https://github.com/Enriquefft/openclaw-kapso-whatsapp
Browser Terminal Use turns cloud/browser terminals into a locally scriptable command surface for AI Agents. It bridges local agent loops with remote execution, streams verifiable output and exit codes, and includes ready-to-use Agent skills so advanced workflows can be adopted with minimal setup 🔗 https://github.com/chaokunyang/browser-terminal-use
Social Media Scraping APIs. A curated collection of social media scraping APIs and tools for Instagram, LinkedIn, Twitter/X, TikTok, YouTube, Facebook, and more. Extract posts, profiles, videos, comments, and engagement metrics 🔗 https://github.com/cporter202/social-media-scraping-apis
API Mega List. GitHub repo is a powerhouse collection of APIs you can start using immediately to build everything from simple automations to full-scale applications. One of the most valuable API lists on GitHub-period 🔗 https://github.com/cporter202/API-mega-list
ServerKit is a lightweight, modern server control panel for managing web applications, databases, and services on your VPS or dedicated server. Built with Python/Flask backend and React frontend 🔗 https://github.com/jhd3197/ServerKit
Atlantis Android. Capture HTTP/HTTPS traffic from Android apps and send to Proxyman for debugging 🔗 https://github.com/ProxymanApp/atlantis-android
Cubecos. Open-source IaaS and PaaS platform that automates and simplifies the deployment of virtualization, Kubernetes, and OpenStack infrastructure 🔗 https://github.com/bigstack-oss/cubecos
Port Killer. A powerful cross-platform port management tool for developers and devops. Monitor ports, manage Kubernetes port forwards, integrate Cloudflare Tunnels, and kill processes with one click 🔗 https://github.com/productdevbook/port-killer
PinMe. Deploy Your Frontend in a Single Command. Claude Code Skills supported 🔗 https://github.com/glitternetwork/pinme
Home Lab Hub. A self-hosted web application for managing and visualizing home lab infrastructure. Track hardware, virtual machines, applications, storage, networks, and more — all in one place 🔗 https://github.com/RaidOwl/homelab-hub
NyarByGlasses. This app notifies you when smart glasses are nearby. It uses company identificators in the Bluetooth data sent out by these. Therefore, there likely are false positives (e.g. from VR headsets). Hence, please proceed with caution when approaching a person nearby wearing glasses. They might just be regular glasses, despite this app’s warning 🔗 https://github.com/yjeanrenaud/yj_nearbyglasses
Dark Light Viewer. A tool to conduct change detection over time using VIIRS night lights data 🔗 https://github.com/bendobrown/Dark-Light-Viewer
- Substack: https://osintech.substack.com
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/osintech/details/featured/
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The dataset is updated on a regular basis.
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