What is osint-terminal?

OSINT Terminal is a self-hosted dashboard for open-source intelligence research, meaning it helps someone look up publicly available information about an IP address, domain, email, phone number, or other identifier without needing any paid API keys or accounts. The README is explicit that it is meant for authorized security research, education, and defensive investigation, and warns users to have permission before looking into any target. The project ships with 438 individual lookup tools, grouped into categories such as network and IP information, domain and website details, email security posture, identity and username searches, phone number parsing, image metadata, cryptocurrency address lookups, threat intelligence feeds, academic paper search, geographic tools, and text encoding and decoding utilities. A notable feature is an interactive 3D globe that shows live data overlays, including earthquakes, aircraft positions, known malware command and control servers, and the location of the International Space Station. Everything runs locally: results, search history, favorites, and saved investigation cases are stored as plain JSON files on the user's own machine, and nothing is sent elsewhere except the actual lookups the user runs. The backend is written using only Python's built in web server library plus the requests package, with a plain JavaScript frontend and no separate build step required. To get started, a user clones the repository, installs the Python dependencies, and runs a single server script, then opens a web page in their browser. It also runs in Docker if preferred. The tool exposes a JSON API so results, running single lookups, running many lookups at once, and managing saved cases can all be done through simple web requests as well as the browser interface. Two optional dependencies add extra features like reading image location data or parsing phone numbers in more detail, and tools missing those dependencies simply return an explanatory message instead of failing.