Repositories list

• bcat-discord-bot

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  bellingcat/bcat-discord-bot’s past year of commit activity
  bcat-discord-bot

  Python

  •1•2•0•0•Updated Dec 19, 2025Dec 19, 2025

• toolkit

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  bellingcat/toolkit’s past year of commit activity
  JavaScript

  •77•425•6•0•Updated Dec 19, 2025Dec 19, 2025

• auto-archiver

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  bellingcat/auto-archiver’s past year of commit activity
  Automatically archive links to videos, images, and social media content from Google Sheets (and more).

  pythondockerservice+ 4scrapingarchiveweb-archivingopen-source-research

  Python

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  MIT License

  •92•1k•13•15•Updated Dec 16, 2025Dec 16, 2025

• name-variant-search

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  A tool for searching common variations of a human name

  javascriptwebsitegenerator+ 2aliasopen-source-research

  JavaScript

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  MIT License

  •7•48•2•0•Updated Dec 13, 2025Dec 13, 2025

• ukraine-timemap

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  bellingcat/ukraine-timemap’s past year of commit activity
  TimeMap instance for Civilian Harm in Ukraine

  javascriptdockerservice+ 4ukrainetimemapcivilian-harmopen-source-research

  JavaScript

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  Other

  •45•275•0•0•Updated Dec 11, 2025Dec 11, 2025

• ColourHighlighter

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  bellingcat/ColourHighlighter’s past year of commit activity
  Use WebGL to apply colour filters (LUTs) to screen shares for geolocation and other research tasks.

  TypeScript

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  MIT License

  •0•4•0•0•Updated Nov 7, 2025Nov 7, 2025

• sugartrail

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  Visualise networks of companies, officers and addresses connected through UK Companies House

  pythoncandyopenstreetmap+ 5visualisationcompanies-housenetwork-analysisvoilaopen-source-research

  HTML

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  MIT License

  •9•68•5•0•Updated Nov 6, 2025Nov 6, 2025

• adsb-history

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  bellingcat/adsb-history’s past year of commit activity
  Collect and query ADS-B data to find aircraft and trends based on geographic region(s), altitude, bearing, aircraft type and more.

  osintaircraftads-b+ 1flight-tracking

  Vue

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  MIT License

  •0•1•0•0•Updated Oct 29, 2025Oct 29, 2025

• auto-archiver-api

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  bellingcat/auto-archiver-api’s past year of commit activity
  API to manage users/sheets/URLs and call the auto-archiver in dedicated workers.

  celeryweb-archivingdigital-preservation+ 1fastapi

  Python

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  MIT License

  •1•12•7•0•Updated Oct 23, 2025Oct 23, 2025

• CouncilSearcher

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  bellingcat/CouncilSearcher’s past year of commit activity
  Find verbatim quotes from council meetings in the UK and Ireland using this free open source research tool by Bellingcat.

  dockervuedemocracy+ 2fastapiopen-source-research

  Python

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  MIT License

  •1•12•7•3•Updated Aug 27, 2025Aug 27, 2025

• uniform-timezone

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  bellingcat/uniform-timezone’s past year of commit activity
  Extension to standardize dates and times to the same timezone across social media websites.

  javascriptchrome-extensionconverter+ 2timezoneopen-source-research

  JavaScript

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  MIT License

  •7•33•5•0•Updated Jul 11, 2025Jul 11, 2025

• open-source-research-notebooks

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  bellingcat/open-source-research-notebooks’s past year of commit activity
  Jupyter notebooks helping open source researchers, journalists, and fact-checkers use command line tools and code projects for digital investigations.

  pythonnotebookopen-source-research

  Jupyter Notebook

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  MIT License

  •28•282•2•0•Updated Jun 19, 2025Jun 19, 2025

• ShadowFinder

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  bellingcat/ShadowFinder’s past year of commit activity
  Find possible locations of shadows around the world

  pythoncommand-linenotebook+ 2geolocationopen-source-research

  Python

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  MIT License

  •42•514•8•2•Updated Jun 16, 2025Jun 16, 2025

• auto-archiver-setup-tool

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  bellingcat/auto-archiver-setup-tool’s past year of commit activity
  A front-end application for Bellingcat's Auto Archiver API

  Vue

  •3•11•2•0•Updated May 21, 2025May 21, 2025

• EDGAR

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  bellingcat/EDGAR’s past year of commit activity
  Tool for the retrieval of corporate and financial data from the SEC

  pythoncommand-linefinancial-data+ 2securities-and-exchange-commissionopen-source-research

  Python

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  GNU General Public License v3.0

  •25•188•2•1•Updated May 15, 2025May 15, 2025

• vk-url-scraper

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  Scrape VK URLs to fetch info and media - python API or command line tool.

  pythonscrapercommand-line+ 3vkmedia-downloaderopen-source-research

  Python

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  MIT License

  •10•51•2•0•Updated May 5, 2025May 5, 2025

• challenge-framework

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  Vuetify app for self-running statically-hosted challenge page

  vuetifycontributions-welcome

  Vue

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  MIT License

  •4•5•5•0•Updated Apr 2, 2025Apr 2, 2025

• filename-finder

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  bellingcat/filename-finder’s past year of commit activity
  Chrome extension that displays filenames for images uploaded to Google by users (in maps, reviews, etc)

  javascriptchrome-extensionmetadata+ 1open-source-research

  JavaScript

  •2•7•1•1•Updated Feb 20, 2025Feb 20, 2025

• auto-archiver-extension

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  bellingcat/auto-archiver-extension’s past year of commit activity
  archivingbrowser-extension

  Vue

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  MIT License

  •0•3•0•0•Updated Feb 14, 2025Feb 14, 2025

• umbra-open-data-tracker

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  Monitor the Umbra open data catalogue and provide a KML file for finding coverage

  pythonkmlsynthetic-aperture-radar+ 1open-source-research

  Python

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  MIT License

  •2•28•0•0•Updated Feb 13, 2025Feb 13, 2025

• osm-search

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  bellingcat/osm-search’s past year of commit activity
  A user friendly way to search OpenStreetMap data for features in proximity to each other.

  javascriptpythongui+ 4vueserviceopen-street-mapopen-source-research

  Vue

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  MIT License

  •9•198•10•2•Updated Jan 29, 2025Jan 29, 2025

• youtube-comment-scraper

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  bellingcat/youtube-comment-scraper’s past year of commit activity
  A script to scrape youtube comments and checks whether a user commented on all of the given videos

  pythonscraperyoutube+ 3command-linecommentsopen-source-research

  Python

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  GNU General Public License v3.0

  •4•26•0•0•Updated Jan 21, 2025Jan 21, 2025

• Multispectral-Satellite-Imagery-Explorer

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  bellingcat/Multispectral-Satellite-Imagery-Explorer’s past year of commit activity
  Google Earth Engine App for exploring Landsat 8 multispectral imagery.

  javascriptgoogle-earth-enginelandsat-8+ 1open-source-research

  JavaScript

  •0•10•0•0•Updated Jan 10, 2025Jan 10, 2025

• geoclustering

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  bellingcat/geoclustering’s past year of commit activity
  Command-line tool for clustering geolocations 📍

  pythoncommand-lineclustering+ 2geolocationopen-source-research

  Python

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  MIT License

  •6•44•0•0•Updated Jan 9, 2025Jan 9, 2025

• avoc

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  bellingcat/avoc’s past year of commit activity
  Working repo for the 2024 Bellingcat Tech Fellowship.

  javascriptmappinggeoint+ 1open-source-research

  CSS

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  GNU General Public License v3.0

  •9•56•6•0•Updated Nov 22, 2024Nov 22, 2024

• search-grid-generator

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  bellingcat/search-grid-generator’s past year of commit activity
  A Vue App for quickly generating KML Search Grids

  javascriptvuemapping+ 1open-source-research

  Vue

  •4•12•4•2•Updated Nov 12, 2024Nov 12, 2024

• rgb-viz

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  bellingcat/rgb-viz’s past year of commit activity
  A simple interactive visualisation demonstrating the red, blue and green channels that make up an image

  JavaScript

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  MIT License

  •0•4•0•0•Updated Oct 17, 2024Oct 17, 2024

• wayback-google-analytics

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  bellingcat/wayback-google-analytics’s past year of commit activity
  A lightweight tool for scraping current and historic Google Analytics data

  pythonscrapercommand-line+ 3google-analyticswayback-machineopen-source-research

  Python

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  MIT License

  •24•227•4•1•Updated Aug 21, 2024Aug 21, 2024

• smart-image-sorter

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  bellingcat/smart-image-sorter’s past year of commit activity
  User friendly zero-shot image classification using open-source models from the Hugging Face library

  pythonnotebookimage-classification+ 1open-source-research

  Jupyter Notebook

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  Apache License 2.0

  •4•52•0•0•Updated Aug 14, 2024Aug 14, 2024

• telegram-phone-number-checker

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  Check if phone numbers are connected to Telegram accounts.

  pythontelegramcommand-line+ 2phone-numberopen-source-research

  Python

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  MIT License

  •252•1.6k•7•3•Updated Jul 9, 2024Jul 9, 2024