Telegram Scraping in Python Without an API Key: The Public-Preview Collector That Survives
Most "Telegram scraping in Python" tutorials tell you to install Telethon, register an API ID with your phone number, and log in as a user bot. Fine…
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Telegram Viewer in Your Browser: Reading Public Channels Without the App (and What Builders Can Do With It)
You can read a public Telegram channel in a browser without installing anything. Type t.me/s/<channel-name> and you get the last ~20 posts as…
Telegram View Counts: How to Spot a Botted Channel in Five Minutes
Every buyer of Telegram ad slots has seen the pitch: a channel with 80,000 subscribers, views averaging 40,000 per post, engagement rate a healthy 5…
What You Can Actually See in a Public Telegram Channel Without an Account
Searches for "see telegram channel without account" return a wall of shrugs. Here is the precise inventory of what the public web preview exposes, a…
Secret Scanning Production Notes: Triage, Liveness, and Reports That Get Paid
Secret-scanning a target's public footprint sounds simple: grep public code for key patterns, alert on new hits. The first production week will teac…
Your Telegram Preview Crawl Is a Population, Not a Census: Post-ID Cursors and Coverage Ceilings
Every guide to scraping t.me/s/<channel> says the same thing: you can get the latest ~20 posts per fetch, no login. Nobody warns you about wha…
Git Push as OSINT Infrastructure: Zero-Server Telegram Collection on GitHub Actions
Short version: the cheapest OSINT infra that actually survives an incident is git push + cron . Long version, with the numbers. I run Telegram chann…
A Zero-Server Telegram OSINT Pipeline: t.me/s Previews + GitHub Actions + Git as the Database
You do not need a server to monitor public Telegram channels. My entire ingestion stack runs on GitHub Actions cron at zero marginal cost, and the w…
OSINT для ленивых — постскриптум к 18-й части. Wayback Machine для поиска по Telegram
При всех достоинствах Telegram, есть у него одна особенность — он тоже оставляет следы в ВебАрхиве. То есть, при наличия желания и определенного кол…
OSINT для ленивых. Часть 18: Юзаем Wayback с пользой для себя и общества
Среди всех OSINT инструментов немного особняком стоят те, которые относятся к инструментам командной строки и ковыряют потроха веб-ресурсов, их прош…
Kept Getting Strange GitHub Followers. So I Measured Them
Over the past several weeks, I kept seeing something unusual in my GitHub followers. Not one suspicious account. Not even one suspicious batch. Repe…
Inside a Suspected Fake CoinDesk Podcast Funnel Targeting Web3 Founders
On 15 August 2026, I received a LinkedIn message inviting me to discuss my personal crypto journey for a supposed CoinDesk podcast. At first glance,…
Написал OSINT инструмент для проверки сайтов и оценки фишингового риска PhishIntel
Доброго времени суток, Хабр! Сейчас у меня творческие каникулы и я решил немного вернуться к теме, которой занимался большую часть своей жизни, поис…
Threat Model Your Apartment Like You Threat Model Your Laptop
Your threat model has a hole shaped like your house. You run endpoint protection on your Mac. You have 2FA, passkeys, hardened browser, DNS filterin…
A GeoGuessr Decision Tree for Country-Level Photo Clues
I maintain a photo-location tool, so I am biased toward software. That bias is useful only when a result can be checked. A country guess without the…
OSINT для ленивых. Часть 17: Швейцарский нож в OSINT
Продолжаем обсуждать инструментарий ленивого осинтера. Какие бы мы были осинтеры без инструментария, и какие бы мы были лентяи без инструмента, позв…
OSINT prompts for ChatGPT and Claude: the circular-reporting screen analysts use, in full
Five sources report the same detail, so you write it up as confirmed. Then you look closer. Two of them cite the third. The third cites a post that…
The Post-Privacy Internet: How to Be Untrackable in 2026
Privacy is dead. We just keep refreshing the obituary hoping for a correction. If you're reading this, you've already felt it. The ad that knew you…
I built an open-source OSINT tool that runs 55 modules with zero API keys
Been learning web security for a while and kept jumping between different tools for every recon task so I just built my own. It's a Python script wi…
I Tested 7 AI OSINT Agents on My Own Digital Footprint - Here's What They Found in 4 Minutes
I thought I had good opsec. I was adorably wrong. The Setup I decided to do the digital equivalent of Googling yourself at 2am after 3 glasses of wi…
OSINT для ленивых. Часть 14: Argus
Argus — это фреймворк с открытым исходным кодом на Python, который помогает автоматизировать сбор информации из открытых источников: соцсетей, форум…
Terminal Velocity: Audits of the Present and Future
Introduction A Continuation of Shadow SCADA Terminal Velocity begins where Shadow SCADA left off — at the edge where digital audits meet the physica…
r4b1t_h0l3
→ Try it: gnomeman4201.github.io/r4b1t It's a curated random link generator for security and OSINT researchers. 53,869 verified live URLs. Roll one.…
SaveWalterWhite — прохождение простой машины на платформе Aclabs.pro
Данный таск был активен в 6 сезоне CTF, который проходил на площадке Aclabs. Это простая машина, однако имеет 5 флагов. Сначала раскрутим RFI до RCE…
Парсинг Telegram: как мы автоматизировали сбор скрытых ID чатов через Telethon и сэкономили 20 часов рутины
Как автоматизировать перехват лидов из Telegram, если конкуренты прячут свои чаты и запрещают копирование ссылок? Клиент пришел с задачей: парсить к…
How States Run Criminals Without Ever Touching Them.
How States Run Criminals Without Ever Touching Them. No contact. No instructions. No trace. Inside the invisible architecture of state-criminal coor…
What Is OSINT? Open-Source Intelligence Explained (2026)
Published: May 22, 2026 · 11 min read OSINT — open-source intelligence — is the collection and analysis of information from publicly available sourc…
Building Helix: An Open-Source Visual Identity Mapper That Cuts the Noise
Every security researcher, bug bounty hunter, and OSINT analyst knows the frustration of running traditional username trackers only to get buried un…
Building Helix: An Open-Source Visual Identity Mapper That Cuts the Noise
Every security researcher, bug bounty hunter, and OSINT analyst knows the frustration of running traditional username trackers only to get buried un…
SeekYou: How I Built a Unified Host Intelligence Tool That Runs Free on Cloudflare Workers
One input. 15 sources. One structured report. Zero infrastructure costs. The Problem Every security engineer knows the workflow. You get an IP, a do…