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Curated List of Osint Tools

A developer published a weekly curated list of OSINT, digital investigation, and security research tools for the week of July 10-16, 2026, spanning regional resources, network utilities, and AI agent tooling. The roundup highlights projects including Global Ping, Lookyloo, Firefox Privacy Containers, the Hermes browser extension, Open Connector, and Ruflo. The curator framed the list as tools readers can "open, verify, and actually use," explicitly excluding AI startup hype.

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Curated List of Osint Tools
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Week of 10 β€” 16 July 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 β€œAI startups that change everything”.

Only things you can open, verify, and actually use.

🧭 Featured Project

Get SMS Online has been providing temporary phone numbers for SMS verification since 2016. Our service lets you receive SMS online and verify accounts on more than 700 popular websites and apps, including social media platforms, email providers, messaging apps, online marketplaces, dating services, and much more:

Your project can be featured here. To collaborate, please send me a private message: @OSINTech

🌍 Regional & Thematic OSINT

VoIP vs Mobile Numbers for SMS Verification. What Works in 2026?

πŸ”— https://getsms.online/blog/voip-mobile-numbers-sms-verification OSINT Tools Switzerland. A comprehensive collection of Open Source Intelligence (OSINT) resources for investigating Swiss entities, individuals, and public information. This repository follows the OSINT-for-Countries-V2.0 framework:

πŸ”— https://github.com/Provereno-Media/OSINT-Tools-Switzerland

πŸ›  OSINT Tools, Services & Investigations

Global Ping. A global network of probes to run network tests like ping, traceroute and DNS resolve:

πŸ”— https://github.com/jsdelivr/globalping Firefox Privacy Containers. Firefox extension for routing Containers through dedicated proxies, request headers, and host rulesβ€”giving security testers and power users clear, isolated browser identities for authenticated testing, multi-account work, and traffic analysis:

πŸ”— https://github.com/nil0x42/firefox-privacy-containers Lookyloo is a web interface that allows users to capture a website page and then display a tree of domains that call each other:

πŸ”— https://github.com/Lookyloo/lookyloo ArchivedV. Tracking and Saving Unarchived Singing from Youtube Stream:

πŸ”— https://github.com/jasonyang-ee/ArchivedV tunnelto.dev. Expose your local web server to the internet with a public URL:

πŸ”— https://github.com/tunneltodev/tunnelto DriveLite. The Supabase for File Storage. A modular, self-hostable backend with end-to-end encryption:

πŸ”— https://github.com/DriveLite/DriveLite

πŸ€– Universal Search & AI

Hermes Browser Extension is not a browser chatbot. It is a Chrome/Edge/Chromium side panel for the real Hermes Agent runtime. Choose a local gateway, attach to a signed-in Hermes Cloud agent tab, or connect to a self-hosted remote API/dashboard. Local and remote API connections can use the models, tools, skills, sessions, memory, and MCP servers already configured in Hermes; Cloud and dashboard-ticket connections are intentionally Chat-only:

πŸ”— https://github.com/abundantbeing/hermes-browser-extension Open Connector. Open-source auth gateway connecting 1000+ SaaS providers to AI agents through SDK, CLI, MCP, HTTP, and OpenAPI:

πŸ”— https://github.com/oomol-lab/open-connector Ruflo. The leading agent meta-harness. Deploy intelligent multi-player swarms, coordinate autonomous workflows, and build conversational AI systems. Features adaptive memory, self-learning intelligence, RAG integration, and native Claude Code / Codex / Hermes and many more Integrated:

πŸ”— https://github.com/ruvnet/ruflo Mesh LLM pools GPUs and memory across machines and exposes the result as one OpenAI-compatible API at http://localhost:9337/v1. Start one node, add more nodes later, and let the mesh decide whether a model runs locally, routes to a peer, or uses Skippy stage splits for models that are too large for one box:

πŸ”— https://github.com/Mesh-LLM/mesh-llm Dork Agent. LLM-powered agent for automated Google Dorking in bug hunting & pentesting:

πŸ”— https://github.com/yee-yore/DorkAgent

πŸ‘¨πŸ’» Software Development & APIs

Cap. Free, open-source and self-hosted CAPTCHA alternative to reCAPTCHA. Privacy-first and powered by proof-of-work and instrumentation challenges:

πŸ”— https://github.com/tiagozip/cap Ironbullet. Pipeline-based HTTP automation toolkit like Openbullet:

πŸ”— https://github.com/notgate/Ironbullet

🐧 Linux & DevOps

Rustnet. Per-process network monitoring for your terminal with deep packet inspection. Cross-platform, sandboxed:

πŸ”— https://github.com/domcyrus/rustnet Whosthere. Local Area Network discovery tool with an interactive Terminal User Interface (TUI) written in Go. Discover, explore, and understand your LAN in an intuitive way:

πŸ”— https://github.com/ramonvermeulen/whosthere Dtop. Terminal dashboard for Docker monitoring across multiple hosts with Dozzle integration:

πŸ”— https://github.com/amir20/dtop DockMon. Modern Docker container monitoring with auto-restart and alerts:

πŸ”— https://github.com/darthnorse/dockmon

πŸ”Œ Hardware & Devices

FlipperZero Wi-Fi Network Security. This Project explores the evolution of Wi-Fi security protocols from WEP to WPA3, focusing on cryptographic weaknesses, vulnerabilities, and practical attack scenarios. It includes a detailed analysis of WEP, WPA, WPA2, and WPA3:

πŸ”— https://github.com/xMohammadAsimx/Wi-Fi-Security

🚨 From CyberDetective

Stats and detailed info about 6K+ Telegram bots and 6k+ TON mini apps.

It will be useful both to people conducting investigations related to Telegram and to developers analyzing which apps are currently popular. And, of course, to anyone simply looking for useful Telegram bots to improve their daily lives.

πŸ“Œ Where to Follow

- **LinkedIn:** [https://www.linkedin.com/in/osintech/details/featured/](https://www.linkedin.com/in/osintech/details/featured/)

If this timeline saves you time, it’s doing its job.

Free to read. Manually curated. Minimal noise.

πŸ“Œ Legal and ethical note

All tools and techniques documented in the dataset are presented for informational,

educational and information security purposes only.

The dataset does not promote or endorse illegal activities.

Users are responsible for complying with applicable laws and ethical standards.

πŸ“Œ About future updates

The dataset is updated on a regular basis.

Future posts will document changes, notable additions and emerging trends observed within the dataset.

This post serves as an introduction and reference point for those updates.

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