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Bellingcat

An independent investigative collective of researchers, investigators and citizen journalists brought together by a passion for open source research.

We are Bellingcat

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Welcome to our GitHub, this is where we publish and collaborate on the code for our tools.

If you're looking for our website, head over to bellingcat.com.

Important

🚨 "Help! I want to use your tools for an investigation, but this site is new to me."

Welcome, we're glad you made it! ⭐ We try to write detailed instructions for all of our tools on their individual pages, called repositories. The instructions can get technical, but we're always trying to make our tools as easy to use as possible. You can find the tool repositories further down this page.

We also have guides on our website, which are worth looking at if you haven't already.

Our tech community

There are folks from all over the world contributing to our code 🌍 We believe that by collaborating we can build better, more transparent tools that help investigators all around the globe!

Want to contribute? 🏆

We are always happy to welcome new folks into our tech community. Feel free to bring your skills to our repos in comments, issues and pull requests.

For bitesize tasks, have a look through our Open Issues 👀 We're planning on using Github projects to organise our community work in the future, but we're not there just yet.

Looking for a big challenge, try our Open Questions ⚠️ These are tricky long-term projects that could be really valuable for open source investigators.

Important

Take a look at our contribution guide 📖 and our community code of conduct 🛡️ for advice on how to get started and the standards that we share.

Get social 💬

We have an active Discord and you're invited! Join it at discord.gg/bellingcat.

If you need, you can also get in touch with the Bellingcat Tech Team directly using this form.

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  1. open-questions open-questions Public

    Want to contribute? These are difficult, long-term projects that could be valuable to open source investigators at Bellingcat and around the world.

    Jupyter Notebook 344 16

  2. ukraine-timemap ukraine-timemap Public

    TimeMap instance for Civilian Harm in Ukraine

    JavaScript 251 41

  3. sar-interference-tracker sar-interference-tracker Public

    A Google Earth Engine tool for identifying satellite radar interference.

    JavaScript 532 54

  4. octosuite octosuite Public

    GitHub Data Analysis Framework.

    Python 1.8k 165

  5. auto-archiver auto-archiver Public

    Automatically archive links to videos, images, and social media content from Google Sheets (and more).

    Python 591 66

  6. telegram-phone-number-checker telegram-phone-number-checker Public

    Check if phone numbers are connected to Telegram accounts.

    Python 1.3k 213

Repositories

Showing 10 of 51 repositories
  • filename-finder Public

    Chrome extension that displays filenames for images uploaded to Google by users (in maps, reviews, etc)

    bellingcat/filename-finder’s past year of commit activity
    JavaScript 0 0 1 0 Updated Jan 8, 2025
  • auto-archiver Public

    Automatically archive links to videos, images, and social media content from Google Sheets (and more).

    bellingcat/auto-archiver’s past year of commit activity
    Python 591 MIT 66 11 (2 issues need help) 6 Updated Jan 8, 2025
  • toolkit Public
    bellingcat/toolkit’s past year of commit activity
    JavaScript 138 20 5 0 Updated Jan 7, 2025
  • avoc Public

    Working repo for the 2024 Bellingcat Tech Fellowship.

    bellingcat/avoc’s past year of commit activity
    CSS 51 GPL-3.0 8 6 (1 issue needs help) 0 Updated Nov 22, 2024
  • search-grid-generator Public

    A Vue App for quickly generating KML Search Grids

    bellingcat/search-grid-generator’s past year of commit activity
    Vue 10 4 4 (1 issue needs help) 2 Updated Nov 12, 2024
  • EDGAR Public

    Tool for the retrieval of corporate and financial data from the SEC

    bellingcat/EDGAR’s past year of commit activity
    Python 145 GPL-3.0 18 4 1 Updated Oct 28, 2024
  • sugartrail Public

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

    bellingcat/sugartrail’s past year of commit activity
    HTML 58 MIT 9 5 0 Updated Oct 25, 2024
  • rgb-viz Public

    A simple interactive visualisation demonstrating the red, blue and green channels that make up an image

    bellingcat/rgb-viz’s past year of commit activity
    JavaScript 0 MIT 0 0 0 Updated Oct 17, 2024
  • name-variant-search Public

    A tool for searching common variations of a human name

    bellingcat/name-variant-search’s past year of commit activity
    JavaScript 43 MIT 6 2 (1 issue needs help) 0 Updated Sep 26, 2024
  • open-source-research-notebooks Public

    Jupyter notebooks helping open source researchers, journalists, and fact-checkers use command line tools and code projects for digital investigations.

    bellingcat/open-source-research-notebooks’s past year of commit activity
    Jupyter Notebook 227 MIT 19 2 (1 issue needs help) 0 Updated Sep 23, 2024

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