Tools for journalists and developers who are familiar with code and the command line

This is a list of dev first tools for investigative research, building graphics and automating workflows.

I haven´t tested all the tools linked below. This should just served as a collection.

Investigative research/ osint

Social Media

• Searching usernames across multiple platforms: sherlock (with adult sites Investigo)
• Instagram Metadata: Osinatgram
• Twitter scraper bypassing the twitter API: twint
• Telegram Scraper (disclaimer: I am a contributor and there is a lot of room for improvements): Telescrape

Mail & Phone

• Basically find everything connected to an e-mail: buster alternative: h8mail
• Find Information about telephone numbers: Moriarty-Project

Official data sources

• Wikipedia for Web APIs. Directory of REST API definitions in OpenAPI 2.0/3.0 format: openapi-directory
• List of awesome datasets
• Fivethirtyeight Data

Data Journalism guides and information

• Propublica data guide

Front end libraries:

• The King d3
• Svelte Graphics Library: layercake
• Marking and higlighting text: RoughNotation
• Tilegram Map

Offline knowlede base managers (notetaking)

• Command line knowledge base manager: kb