Access archived web pages, bulk download files, block bots and much more straight from a web browser like Google Chrome or Mozilla Firefox
This article first appeared as a LinkedIn post by Alex Lozano, and has been adapted into an article with the author's permission
Alex Lozano is the founder and CEO of Cibergy, an investigation and cyber intelligence consultancy that helps its clients in accessing verified and corroborated information on social media and the internet
OSINT (open-source intelligence) tools are free and publicly available, and they are essential to investigative journalism. Many OSINT tools come as browser extensions, so they can be used straight from a web browser like Google Chrome or Mozilla Firefox.
Here is a useful list of 21 OSINT browser extensions for you to try out.
uBlock Origin - Blocks ads and trackers for many web browsers
RevEye - Reverse image search for Chrome and Firefox
Exif Viewer - View metadata for Chrome and Firefox
Wayback Machine - Access archived web pages for many web browsers
User-Agent Switcher - Modify your user-agent for Chrome and Firefox
Shodan - Retrieve website information or many web browsers
Hunchly - Capture and organise web pages for Chrome
Cookie AutoDelete - Control cookies for Chrome and Firefox
Privacy Badger - Block tracking scripts for many web browsers
Vortimo - Analyse web content for Chrome
Fireshot - Full web page screenshots for many web browsers
Sputnik - Search digital identifiers for Chrome and Firefox
Forensic OSINT - Full web page screenshots for Chrome
Bot Sentinel - Detect bots on X for many web browsers
Google Translate - Translate text for Chrome
DownThemAll - Bulk download files from websites for many web browsers
Instant Data Scraper - Extract data from web pages for Chrome
Context Search - Quickly search highlighted text for Chrome and Firefox
Video DownloadHelper - Download videos from websites for Chrome and Firefox
ESUIT - Facebook content downloader for Chrome
Hive AI Detector - Detect AI-generated media for Chrome
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