Social media profiles playbook

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Collect and preserve what a public profile shows: posts, media metadata and archived copies

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Tools used in this guide

sherlock Finds accounts by username across 400+ social networks and websitesot install osintverse-community/sherlock
yt-dlp Extracts metadata from videos and channels on YouTube, TikTok, X, Instagram and 1,000+ other sitesot install osintverse-community/yt-dlp
gallery-dl Lists the images and metadata of posts and galleries on Reddit, Flickr, Imgur, Tumblr and 300+ sitesot install osintverse-community/gallery-dl
waybackpy Finds the oldest or newest Wayback Machine capture of a URL, or every archived URL of a siteot install osintverse-community/waybackpy
unfurl Breaks a URL into everything it encodes: timestamps, IDs, search terms, tracking and session dataot install osintverse-community/unfurl

Install them all:

ot guide tools osintverse-community/social-media-profiles

Once you know an account, collect what it publicly shows, in a form you can keep: the profile, its media and their metadata, and an archived copy.

Steps

Tools used (ot guide tools osintverse-community/social-media-profiles):

Tool	Used for
osintverse-community/sherlock	The same handle on other networks
osintverse-community/yt-dlp	Video and channel metadata on YouTube, TikTok, X and 1,000+ sites
osintverse-community/gallery-dl	Image posts and galleries on Reddit, Flickr, Imgur, Tumblr and others
osintverse-community/waybackpy	Archived copies of a profile
osintverse-community/unfurl	IDs and timestamps hidden in post URLs

Tools used in this guide

sherlock Finds accounts by username across 400+ social networks and websitesot install osintverse-community/sherlock
yt-dlp Extracts metadata from videos and channels on YouTube, TikTok, X, Instagram and 1,000+ other sitesot install osintverse-community/yt-dlp
gallery-dl Lists the images and metadata of posts and galleries on Reddit, Flickr, Imgur, Tumblr and 300+ sitesot install osintverse-community/gallery-dl
waybackpy Finds the oldest or newest Wayback Machine capture of a URL, or every archived URL of a siteot install osintverse-community/waybackpy
unfurl Breaks a URL into everything it encodes: timestamps, IDs, search terms, tracking and session dataot install osintverse-community/unfurl

Install them all:

ot guide tools osintverse-community/social-media-profiles

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