A collection of awesome browser extension useful for OSINT along with their use case.
Free weekly OSINT Newsletter - osintupdates.com
Learn OSINT from Experts - osintteam.com
Best OSINT Tools Directory - osinttools.io
Free OSINT eBook's and Guides - osintambition.org
1. What are Browser Extensions
2. How to install browser extension
3. Browser Extensions for OSINT
These are the programs that can be installed on a browser that can modify your experience or add functionality to the browser. These are created with the help of HTML, CSS, JavaScript, etc.
The below int the method for installing browser extensions in Chorme.
-
Open Chrome web store website using the given link https://chrome.google.com/webstore/category/extensions Or If you know the name/ link of the Chrome extension, proceed to 3 directly. -
Find the extension which you want to install using the search box or manually. -
Click on “Add to Chrome”, once the popup shows click on “Add extension” and the download will start automatically in a few seconds. -
Click on the extension icon in the top right corner above Google account profile icon and check if the download successfully
The process is similar for all other browsers, also you can google for step by step tutorial.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ekXS3y_s8k8
Chrome Extension -
| Name | Description | |
|---|---|---|
| Vortimo OSINT-tool | Helps in getting more information about name, phone number, email, and many more. | |
| Hunchly 2.0 | Helps in capture and organize online data for your investigations. | |
| Selection Search | Helps you in searching for the selected text in multiple search engines | |
| Email Tracker | Helps you in finding out if your email has been read | |
| Geotrack Email Tracking with Geolocation | Helps you in Email tracking with geolocation right in Gmail, with real-time statistics | |
| Gotanda | Helpful for searching OSINT information from some IOC in web page.(IP,Domain,URL,SNS...etc) | |
| Map Switcher | Helpful in switching between different map services with a single click | |
| Magnifying Glass | Helpful in viewing a zoomed image within its radius, without disturbing the rest of the page. | |
| EXIF Viewer Pro | Helpful in quickly accessing exif data of any image you view. | |
| Fake news debunker by InVID & WeVerify | Helpful for journalists, fact-checkers and human right defenders in fact-checking and debunking tasks on social networks. | |
| TinEye Reverse Image Search | Helpful in reverse image search and other features offered by Tineye | |
| Search by Image | Helpful in reverse image search with support for various search engines, such as Google, Bing, Yandex, Baidu and TinEye. | |
| PhotOSINT | Helpful in scanning images for exif metadata while browsing | |
| Distill | Extension allows you to passively monitor changes on social pages. | |
| Visualping | A simple service for monitoring websites for changes. | |
| Fetcher | Extension fetches from your favourite websites, and combines them into one | |
| FireShot | Allows you to quickly take a screenshot of a web page in full screen mode. | |
| Nimbus Screenshot & Screen Video Recorder | Helpful for taking screenshots and video recording web pages. | |
| Go Back in Time | Allows you to view an archived version of a web page. | |
| The Wayback Machine | Extension of the Internet Archive | |
| Web Cache Viewer | lets you right-click on any link or page to view the Wayback Machine or Google Cache versions of that page. | |
| Blockchain.info | Helps to find info on bitcoin address. | |
| Blockchair | Block explorer and anonymous crypto portfolio tracker for Bitcoin, Ethereum, and others in your browser. | |
| Breadcrumbs Blockchain Investigate | Investigation tool to get more details on any Ethereum address’s activity. | |
| Instant Data Scraper | An automatic data scraping tool for any website. | |
| Data Scraper | Extracts data out of HTML web pages and imports it into Microsoft Excel spreadsheets. | |
| Email extract | Helps in finding email addresses on the pages you visit. | |
| Hunter | Extension to find an email address on any website with one click. | |
| MEGA | Excellent file hosting service and a fairly secure messenger all rolled into one. | |
| OSIRIS | Extension for IoC reputation analysis. | |
| Sputnik | Extension to quickly and easily search for IP addresses, domains, file hashes and URLs using free resources. | |
| IP Address and Domain Information | The module displays detailed information about the current website. | |
| Shodan | This plugin tells you where the website is hosted (country, city), who owns the IP and what other services/ ports are open. | |
| Pulsedive Threat Intelligence | Free analyst-centric threat intelligence platform that offers comprehensive. | |
| Mitaka | Extension for searching IP, domain, URL, hash, etc. via the context menu. | |
| CrowdScrape | Plugin designed to allow you to be able to scrape indicators from various websites and in-browser documents such as PDF reports. | |
| ZoomEye Tools | Plugin tells you where the website is hosted (country, city), who owns the IP and what other services/ ports are open. | |
| FOFA Pro View | Plugin tells you where the website is hosted (country, city), who owns the IP and what other services/ ports are open. | |
| NoScript | Allows you to run JavaScript, Flash, Java and other executable content only from trusted domains of your choice. | |
| HTTPS Everywhere | Encrypts your communication with many major websites, making your web surfing more secure. | |
| Vytal | Extension that changes your location to match your VPN. | |
| Vulners Web Scanner | Vulnerability scanner based on the vulners.com vulnerability database. | |
| User-Agent Switcher and Manager | Extension replaces the User-Agent on websites, which allows you to fake the digital fingerprint of the researcher’s device, pretending to be a smartphone or iPad. | |
| ClearURLs | Application for stripping tracking tags from URLs. | |
| uBlock Origin | Best app for blocking ads and trackers on the internet today. | |
| AdNauseam | An ad blocker. | |
| Extensity | Quickly enable/disable Google Chrome extensions. | |
| Extension Manager | Google Chrome extensions manager. | |
| BuiltWith Technology Profiler | Lets you find out what a website is built with by a simple click. | |
| Email extract | searches email addresses on pages you visit. | |
| Ghostery – Privacy Ad Blocker | Block ads, stop trackers and speed up websites. | |
| Hunter - Email Finder Extension | Find email addresses from anywhere on the web, with just one click. | |
| Instant Data Scraper | Instant Data Scraper extracts data from web pages and exports it as Excel or CSV files | |
| IP Address and Domain Information | See detailed information about every IP Address, Domain Name and Provider. | |
| Mitaka | extension for searching IP, domain, URL, hash, etc. via the context menu. | |
| Save to Pocket | The easiest, fastest way to capture articles, videos, and more. | |
| Simplescraper — a fast and free web scraper | Scrape website data and table data in seconds | |
| Sputnik | quickly and easily search IPs, Domains, File Hashes, and URLs | |
| Unpaywall | for accessing articles that are available elsewhere for free. | |
| Wappalyzer | Helpful in identifying technologies on websites. | |
| Scan WP - WordPress Theme and Plugin Detector | Detects what theme and plugins are used in the Wordpress website | |
| Fake Profile Detector (Deepfake, GAN) | Detects if that image contains a GAN generated or real person! | |
| Screenshot YouTube | Take a screenshot of any YouTube video with one click. | |
| Canvas Fingerprint Defender | Lets you easily hide your real canvas fingerprint by reporting a random fake value. | |
| Chaff | Generate random web browsing traffic to obfuscate actual browsing behavior to avoid profiling through 3rd party observation. | |
| ClearURLs | Automatically remove tracking elements from URLs to help protect your privacy when browse through the Internet. | |
| Location Guard | Hide your geographic location from websites. | |
| Decentraleyes | Protects you against tracking through "free", centralized, content delivery. | |
| Netcraft Extension | Provides comprehensive site information and protection from phishing and malicious JavaScript when browsing the web | |
| Image Downloader - Save photos and pictures | Find, choose and download images you need from any web pages or select all to bulk image download. | |
| L.O.C | collection of tools to help Facebook users with a downloading content and analysis. | |
| Return YouTube Comment Username | Replaces the "handle" in the YouTube comments section to user name | |
| TikNote: Video Downloader and Saver | Download TikTok™ videos without watermark. | |
| TT Downloader | Download Tik tok Videos and Mass Downloads | |
| Video Downloader Plus | The fastest and easiest way to download any video from any website. | |
| Uniform Timezone Extension | Brings standardization to social media posts' dates and times. | |
| Linkclump | Lets you open, copy or bookmark multiple links at the same time. | |
| OpenLink Structured Data Sniffer | Reveals structured metadata (Microdata, RDFa, JSON-LD, Turtle, etc.) embedded within HTML documents. | |
| Link Gopher | Extracts all links from web page, sorts them, removes duplicates, and displays them in a new tab for copy and paste into other systems. | |
| Page Monitor | Stays in the background and monitors web pages for changes. | |
| Pulsedive Threat Intelligence | Highlight IPs, domains, and URLs on any website to enrich them using Pulsedive's free threat intelligence data set. | |
| Save Page WE | Save a complete web page (as curently displayed) as a single HTML file that can be opened in any browser. | |
| ThreatPinch Lookup | Add threat intelligence hover tool tips. IPv4, MD5, SHA2, CVE, FQDN or add your own ThreatIntel IOC. Use any REST API. | |
| Web Archives | View archived and cached versions of web pages on 10+ search engines, such as the Wayback Machine, Archive.is and Google. | |
| Nimbus Screenshot & Screen Video Recorder | Screen Capture FULL Web page or any part. Edit screenshots. Record screencasts - record video from your screen. | |
| FOCA Files Finder | Scans for available files for a website and provide with the download link for analyzing locally. |
Firefox Extensions
| Name | Description | |
|---|---|---|
| Multi-Account Containers | Allows you to open tabs which are completely isolated from each other and don't share the same cookies, session data, or other information. | |
| FireShot: Full Web Page Screenshots | Allows you to capture and save the visible part, a selected area of the page or the full web page, including parts that are not visible. | |
| uBlock Origin | Helps in enhancing security of the browser by blocking ads, trackers, and malware sites. | |
| DownThemAll! | Allows you to download all media, like videos and images, from a website and save them on your computer. | |
| ScrapBee | Allows you to save entire web pages for offline access and allowing them to organize for a good overview. | |
| Search by Image | Allows you to conduct a reverse image search on multiple databases (like Google, Bing, Yandex, TinEye, SauceNAO, IQDB) at the same time by right-clicking on the image on the website. | |
| User-Agent Switcher and Manager | Allows you to alter your user-agent string to indicate you’re on a different device. | |
| NoScript Security Suite | Allow potentially malicious web content to run only from sites you trust. | |
| Privacy Badger | Allows to block invisible trackers automatically. | |
| Cookie AutoDelete | Allows you to control your cookies. | |
| Shodan | Tells you where the website is hosted (country, city), who owns the IP and what other services/ ports are open. | |
| Netcraft Extension | Provides comprehensive site information and protection from phishing and malicious JavaScript when browsing the web | |
| Wappalyzer | Helpful in identifying technologies on websites. | |
| Wayback Machine | Allows to go back in time to see how a website has changed through the history of the Web. |
- Whenever adding a new extension, always check the number of users using that extension, reviews and about the developer. As there are many extensions in the chrome web store which can be harmful and misuses your data.
- Don’t add any unusable extension
- Don't add any extension if you don't know what that extension does and how to use it
99.99% safe, We have performed a security check on all extensions but there may be a chance we may have missed something.
Try these at your own risk.
Certainly yes, there exists, if you come across any amazing extension that can be used for OSINT, let us know so we can add that in this list.
You can inform us on any of our social media handles if there exist any issues with this project, we will surely provide you a solution.
Yes, there are many Android browsers that provide a feature to use browser extensions in Android like kiwi and Yandex browser. The process of installation is almost the same.
Contributions are always welcome!
You can contact us any time on any of our social media platforms for any kind of suggestions and Contributions.
Official Mail - [email protected]
GitHub - https://github.com/osintambition
Twitter - https://twitter.com/osintambition
Telegram - https://t.me/osintambition
Developed with ❤️ in India 🇮🇳