Social Media
Note: Most of these tools are currently either broken or don’t work at all due to the changes in social media services. For example Twint is dead.
All in one
snscrape: github.com/JustAnotherArchivist/snscrape
choose from 'facebook-community', 'facebook-group', 'facebook-user', 'instagram-hashtag', 'instagram-location', 'instagram-user', 'mastodon-profile', 'mastodon-toot', 'reddit-search', 'reddit-submission', 'reddit-subreddit', 'reddit-user', 'telegram-channel', 'twitter-cashtag', 'twitter-community', 'twitter-hashtag', 'twitter-list-posts', 'twitter-profile', 'twitter-search', 'twitter-trends', 'twitter-tweet', 'twitter-user', 'twitter-users', 'vkontakte-user', 'weibo-user'A few tests with this tool were unsuccessful but it might possibly work for some of the services.
It scrapes things like user profiles, hashtags, or searches and returns the discovered items, e.g. the relevant posts from these social networking services.
- Facebook: user profiles, groups, and communities (aka visitor posts)
- Instagram: user profiles, hashtags, and locations
- Mastodon: user profiles and toots (single or thread)
- Reddit: users, subreddits, and searches (via Pushshift)
- Telegram: channels
- Twitter: users, user profiles, hashtags, searches (live tweets, top tweets, and users), tweets (single or surrounding thread), list posts, communities, and trends
- VKontakte: user profiles
- Weibo (Sina Weibo): user profiles
Twint is no longer maintained due to changes in twitter.
twint: github.com/twintproject/twint
Another tool but it probably doesn’t work now, after changes in June 2023.
github.com/markowanga/stweet
Another tool but haven’t tested it yet.
github.com/Altimis/Scweet
Doesn’t appear to work now.
InstagramOSINT: github.com/sc1341/InstagramOSINT
List of Social Media Tools
github.com/osintambition/Social-Media-OSINT-Tools-Collection