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Osint-python projects on GitHub
Python libraries for open source intelligence gathering on people, emails, and social accounts.
As of , the most-starred Osint-python projects on GitHub are maigret (39.2K stars), GhostTrack (19.3K stars) and holehe (15.2K stars). GitHub.Locker tracks 6 Osint-python repositories with 102.8K stars combined. The fastest-growing on October 16 was GhostTrack, with +122 stars in a day.
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Most stars gained in a day · Oct 16
+122GhostTrack
HunxByts/GhostTrack · ★ 19.3KGhostTrack is a Python command-line OSINT tool used to track a target's approximate location or gather details about a phone number, essentially a piece of information-gathering tooling for recon work.
+41maigret
soxoj/maigret · ★ 39.2KMaigret is an OSINT command-line tool that builds a dossier on a person by checking for an account under a given username across thousands of websites and pulling together whatever profile info it finds, with no API keys required.
+21Osintgram
Datalux/Osintgram · ★ 15.1KOsintgram is an OSINT tool for Instagram that lets you collect, analyze, and run reconnaissance on any public Instagram account via an interactive shell, just by giving its nickname.
+10holehe
megadose/holehe · ★ 15.2KHolehe is an OSINT tool that checks whether an email address is registered on 120+ websites (Twitter, Instagram, Spotify, Imgur, etc) by abusing each site's 'forgot password' or registration flow, without alerting the target.
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6 projects · by stars
- 39.2K
#1 · soxoj/maigretmaigret
Maigret is an OSINT command-line tool that builds a dossier on a person by checking for an account under a given username across thousands of websites and pulling together whatever profile info it finds, with no API keys required.
- 19.3K
#2 · HunxByts/GhostTrackGhostTrack
GhostTrack is a Python command-line OSINT tool used to track a target's approximate location or gather details about a phone number, essentially a piece of information-gathering tooling for recon work.
- 15.2K
#3 · megadose/holeheholehe
Holehe is an OSINT tool that checks whether an email address is registered on 120+ websites (Twitter, Instagram, Spotify, Imgur, etc) by abusing each site's 'forgot password' or registration flow, without alerting the target.
- 4

Osintgram
15.1KDatalux/Osintgram · PythonOsintgram is an OSINT tool for Instagram that lets you collect, analyze, and run reconnaissance on any public Instagram account via an interactive shell, just by giving its nickname.
- 5

instaloader
13.6Kinstaloader/instaloader · PythonInstaloader downloads pictures and videos from Instagram profiles, hashtags, stories, feeds, and saved media, along with captions, comments, geotags, and other metadata.
- 6

instagram-private-graph
4410x6rss/instagram-private-graph · PythonIt's a local research tool for authorized Instagram OSINT investigations: using an authenticated session it collects data visible to that account, scores candidate relationships to a target, and produces a network graph, target summary, signal summary, and human-readable report.
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