Domain / DNS
Domain, host, certificate, IP, and website footprint checks.
OSINT4ALL tool directory
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Common investigation lanes
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Threat triage
Suspicious URLs, files, IPs, breach signals, and reputation checks.
Company research
Registries, filings, public records, and corporate footprint checks.
People & social
Handles, people, public topics, mentions, and media narratives.
Maps / geolocation
Place names, imagery, satellite, map, and sunlight checks.
Archives
Preserve pages, recover deleted sources, and document timelines.
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ACLED
Political violence and protest event data for public-interest research
Verification: Pending Verification
Workflow: Analysis, Discovery
Pricing: Free
Best for: Structured conflict, protest, political-violence, crisis, actor, and event-context research for journalism, civil society, and regional analysis.
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ACLED
Political violence and protest event data for public-interest research
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Google advertiser and ad creative transparency search
Verification: Pending Verification
Workflow: Discovery, Verification
Pricing: Free
Best for: Checking Google advertiser activity, visible ad examples, public transparency context, and messaging patterns around brands, candidates, issues, and…
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Google Ads Transparency Center
Google advertiser and ad creative transparency search
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Searchable LinkedIn ad transparency database
Verification: Pending Verification
Workflow: Discovery
Pricing: Free
Best for: B2B advertiser checks, employer-brand monitoring, professional-network campaign messaging, and public ad transparency around organizations.
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LinkedIn Ad Library
Searchable LinkedIn ad transparency database
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Ahrefs
Backlink and search visibility research
Verification: Editorial review
Workflow: Enrichment
Pricing: Paid
Best for: Backlink analysis, referring-domain research, search visibility, competing-page review, content gaps, and link-pattern investigation.
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Ahrefs
Backlink and search visibility research
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Meltwater
Media intelligence and social monitoring
Verification: Editorial review
Workflow: Monitoring
Pricing: Enterprise
Best for: Use it when PR, reputation, media-monitoring, or issue-tracking workflows need enterprise coverage and reporting.
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Meltwater
Media intelligence and social monitoring
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Similarweb
Estimated website traffic and competitor context
Verification: Editorial review
Workflow: Enrichment
Pricing: Freemium
Best for: Traffic estimates, referral context, audience clues, channel mix, and competitor benchmarking for public websites and markets.
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Similarweb
Estimated website traffic and competitor context
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Semrush
SEO and competitor visibility intelligence
Verification: Editorial review
Workflow: Enrichment
Pricing: Paid
Best for: Search visibility, keyword research, backlink context, SERP review, paid-search clues, and competitor content analysis.
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Semrush
SEO and competitor visibility intelligence
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GDELT Project
Global news and event monitoring dataset
Verification: Editorial review
Workflow: Monitoring
Pricing: Free
Best for: Use it when media or event research needs global monitoring, trend discovery, or machine-readable news context.
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GDELT Project
Global news and event monitoring dataset
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Directional search-interest analysis for topics and brands
Verification: Editorial review
Workflow: Monitoring
Pricing: Free
Best for: Directional search-demand context around public-interest questions, news cycles, misinformation narratives, brands, campaigns, and market topics.
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Google Trends
Directional search-interest analysis for topics and brands
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Media Cloud
Open media ecosystem research platform
Verification: Editorial review
Workflow: Monitoring
Pricing: Free
Best for: Use it when a researcher needs to study media attention, framing, and source ecosystems rather than individual social…
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Media Cloud
Open media ecosystem research platform
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