I Built an OSINT Tool to Automate Recon Across 100+ Platforms

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GhostIntel CLI output showing username search results

Manual reconnaissance is slow, repetitive, and honestly… pretty inefficient.

So I built GhostIntel — a lightweight OSINT tool that automates recon across multiple platforms in one place.

https://github.com/ruyynn/GhostIntel


What is GhostIntel?

GhostIntel is an open-source tool designed to simplify how you gather publicly available information.

Instead of jumping between different tools or manually searching, GhostIntel helps automate the process and return structured results.


⚙️ Features

  • Username enumeration across 100+ platforms
  • Email footprint analysis
  • Domain reconnaissance
  • Basic phone lookup
  • Modular and easy to extend

Why I built this

While learning about OSINT and reconnaissance, I noticed that most tools are either too complex or too fragmented.

I wanted something that is:

  • Simple
  • Fast
  • Actually useful

So I built GhostIntel as a personal project to learn while solving a real problem.


️ Tech Stack

  • Python
  • CLI-based interface
  • JSON-based configs

Getting Started

git clone https://github.com/ruyynn/GhostIntel
cd GhostIntel
pip install -r requirements.txt
python ghostintel.py -h

What’s next?

I’m currently working on:

  • Report generation (HTML / PDF)
  • Better data correlation
  • Graph visualization
  • More platform integrations

Feedback

This project is still evolving, and I’d really appreciate feedback from the community

If you find it useful, consider giving it a ⭐ on GitHub

Thanks for reading

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