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Osint-tools projects on GitHub
Tools for investigating people and domains online.
As of , the most-starred Osint-tools projects on GitHub are sherlock (94.5K stars), phoneinfoga (18.2K stars) and holehe (15.2K stars). GitHub.Locker tracks 6 Osint-tools repositories with 150K stars combined. The fastest-growing on October 18 was geo-sleuth, with +142 stars in a day.
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Most stars gained in a day · Oct 18
+142geo-sleuth
Oldcircle/geo-sleuth · ★ 3.4Kgeo-sleuth is an Agent Skill that figures out where a photo was taken by combining OpenStreetMap geometry, elevation skylines, satellite imagery and street view, run inside AI coding agents like Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, Gemini CLI, OpenCode and GitHub Copilot.
+69sherlock
sherlock-project/sherlock · ★ 94.5KSherlock hunts down social media accounts by username: give it a name and it checks across social networks for accounts registered under it.
+12phoneinfoga
sundowndev/phoneinfoga · ★ 18.2KAn open-source OSINT framework for scanning international phone numbers. It gathers basics like country, area, carrier and line type, then tries to find the VoIP provider or identify the owner.
+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.
The all-time top
6 projects · by stars
- 94.5K
#1 · sherlock-project/sherlocksherlock
Sherlock hunts down social media accounts by username: give it a name and it checks across social networks for accounts registered under it.
- 18.2K
#2 · sundowndev/phoneinfogaphoneinfoga
An open-source OSINT framework for scanning international phone numbers. It gathers basics like country, area, carrier and line type, then tries to find the VoIP provider or identify the owner.
- 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

Photon
13.3Ks0md3v/Photon · PythonPhoton is a fast web crawler built for OSINT (open-source intelligence) gathering, extracting URLs, emails, social media accounts, secret keys, subdomains and more while it crawls a target site.
- 5
user-scanner
5.4Kkaifcodec/user-scanner · PythonUser Scanner is an OSINT (open-source intelligence) CLI tool that takes an email address or username and scans it across 2720+ platforms (210+ email vectors, 2510+ username vectors) to map digital footprints, scrape profile metadata, and surface linked accounts.
- 6

geo-sleuth
3.4KOldcircle/geo-sleuth · Pythongeo-sleuth is an Agent Skill that figures out where a photo was taken by combining OpenStreetMap geometry, elevation skylines, satellite imagery and street view, run inside AI coding agents like Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, Gemini CLI, OpenCode and GitHub Copilot.
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