2025/02/10: The Best Chrome Extensions for OSINT Professionals, Researchers and Journalists in 2025
Browser extensions (or add-ons) are small pieces of software that can significantly enhance intelligence, investigative, and research workflows while also supporting general office productivity. Below, you will find a list of extensions that OSINT professionals, researchers and journalists can use to enhance their ability to find, organise and use open source information. While we have checked and validated every extension in the list, remember to exercise caution when adding extensions to your browser. Today's wonder tool may pose security risks tomorrow.
Searching
Context Menu Search and Simple = Select + Search extend your browser’s search functionalities by providing you with easy access to an extensive and customisable list of search engines.
Global Search Simulator lets you easily compare search results obtained with different language and country settings.
GoogleSwitch lets you easily change language and country settings for Google Search and Google Lens.
Mark My Search is a simple, intuitive extension that highlights keywords, making them easier to spot in search results.
Multi Find and Highlighty are two feature-rich alternatives to Mark My Search.
Remove Breadcrumps lets you see the full URL of websites in your Google search results rather than the “breadcrumbs” that are shown as standard.
SEO Search Simulator by Nightwatch is an alternative to GoogleSwitch. Like GoogleSwitch, it lets you easily change the language and country settings for Google Search.
Save Search Results saves your Google search results with one click.
Search All Tabs lets you easily search all open tabs.
Search & Link Preview allows you to review search results in a preview window. It works with Google, Bing, Yahoo, Yandex, and Baidu.
Search Result Previews adds a small screenshot of the result’s page to the left from each search result in Google and other search engines.
uBlacklist blocks websites from appearing in Google search results.
Browsing
Auto Scroll Search lets you search for specific keywords while you are automatically scrolling through the page.
Better History and History Plus give you more control over your browsing history by replacing Chrome’s history with a feature-rich interface that offers improved search and handy filters.
Chikamichi allows you to easily search within open tabs, Chrome bookmarks, and browsing history.
I still don’t care about cookies automatically answers and, hence, removes cookie warnings from almost all websites.
Page Sidebar is a handy extension that lets you open any web page in a side panel within your browser.
Similar Sites identifies websites similar to the one you are on.
Simple Autoscroll lets you scroll to the bottom of the page with one click. It is especially useful when looking for information on social media platforms.
Site History Express lets you quickly retrieve a list of other pages you visited within a given website.
Smart TOC displays a table of contents for every web article with headings making it easier to navigate to an interesting part of the page.
StayFocusd limits the amount of time you spend on time-wasting websites.
Working with AI
AI Prompt Genius and Text Blaze let you build a custom library of prompts.
ChatGPT Ctrl+Enter Sender allows you to send messages on sites like ChatGPT using "Ctrl+Enter". It prevents accidental sends and allows line breaks with Enter.
ChatGPT Exporter lets you download ChatGPT results by use of PDF, Markdown, Text, JSON, CSV, or Image formats.
Perplexity - AI Companion gives you quick access to Perplexity search engine.
Sider, Merlin, Monica, and TinaMind are powerful AI assistants that give you quick access to a number of AI-enabled functions performed by use of popular AI models.
Web History and Site Capture
Archive Page allows you to archive web pages and check for archived copies within Archive.today.
Wayback Machine lets you check for archived copies of websites on the Internet Archive.
Web Archives searches for archived and cached versions of web pages within various web archives.
Tab Management
Dualles lets you split one Chrome window into two and align them next to each other.
OneTab lets you save all open tabs as a list, open the entire list or selected tabs later, or share the saved tabs with your colleagues.
Reading List is a simple extension that lets you save web pages into a list to read later.
Session Buddy allows you to save, group and reopen tabs in incognito or standard mode.
Tab Resize lets you open and align multiple Chrome windows.
TabTrum is an alternative to OneTab. You can use it to collapse open tabs into a list, give the list a specific title, and reopen all tabs when needed.
Web Monitoring
Distill Web Monitor is a page monitoring tool that alerts you to changes on a web page.
Price tracker - Otsledit is a simple extension that alerts you when the tracked content on the web page changes.
Read-Later and RSS Extension is offered by Inoreader, a popular RSS aggregator. Among other things, it lets you subscribe to RSS feeds, save pages while you browse, informs you when feeds are detected on the specific page you are on, and lets you know how many unread items you have in your Inoreader dashboard.
Visualping is an alternative to Distill Web Monitor. Set up your tracker and receive an e-mail alert every time it detects changes to the web page of interest to you.
Highlighting and Saving for Later
Bookmarker by start.me lets you bookmark web pages to your start.me page.
Instapaper saves articles to Instapaper, a popular read-it-later alternative to Pocket.
Notion Web Clipper saves websites to Notion, a simple application that lets you create a customised workspace.
Obsidian Web Clipper lets you save web pages and highlights to Obsidian.
OneNote Web Clipper lets you save web content to OneNote, a free note-taking application from Microsoft.
Push to Kindle lets you save articles to your Kindle device.
Raindrop.io is a bookmarking tool that lets you curate websites of interest to you.
Web Highlights - PDF & Web Highlighter allows you to highlight and save text within web pages and PDFs.
WorldBrain’s Memex is a research management tool. It lets you bookmark web pages and save annotations and highlights that you can further process via the Memex dashboard.
Zotero Connector lets you save references to Zotero reference manager.
Working with Keywords
Keyword Surfer, Ubbersuggest and Keywords Everywhere generate a free list of alternative keywords to the right of your Google search results.
Working with Images
Download All Images and Image Downloader - Imageye let you easily detect, filter, and download images from the current web page.
Enhance Image Viewer is a powerful extension designed to help you explore image details with ease.
EXIF Viewer Classic is a simple Chrome extension that reveals which images have EXIF data.
RevEye Reverse Image Search and Search by Image are two extensions that let you run reverse image queries using different search engines.
View Image restores the “View Image” and “Search by Image” functions of Google Image Search, which were removed during one of the updates.
Working with Audio
Chrome Audio Capture lets you capture audio on a current tab and save the output file.
Speechify and Read Aloud are text to speech readers that read the content of web pages, pdfs, and more to you.
Working with Videos
Enhancer for YouTube, Tweaks for YouTube, and Transpose add a set of customisable features that allow you to tailor YouTube to your needs.
Frame by Frame lets you watch web-based videos frame after frame.
InVID is a Chrome extension developed to support video verification and analysis.
Picture-in-Picture Extension lets you watch online videos in a floating window that is always on top of other windows. This allows you to watch a video while browsing other websites.
ReClipped lets you take notes, add timestamped comments, and share snippets of YouTube videos.
Return YouTube Comment Username rewrites the YouTube comment username to the traditional username format.
Screenshot YouTube lets you take screenshots from a YouTube video.
Video Downloader Plus lets you download videos from Vimeo, Dailymotion, Vevo, and Twitch.
Video DownloadHelper lets you easily save videos from the current web page.
YCS - YouTube Comment Search lets you search within comments, replies, chat replay, and transcript of a YouTube video.
YiNote lets you add time-stamped notes to YouTube videos.
YouTube Word Searcher lets you search YouTube videos by use of keywords.
Preserving Evidence and Archiving
Awesome Screenshot & Screen Recorder is a feature-rich extensions that allows you to screen capture web pages in full or in part, edit and annotate screenshots, and record screencasts.
Fireshot lets you capture and save a full web page as a PDF or as an image.
Forensic OSINT lets you manually or automatically capture data and preserve digital evidence.
Hunchly is a feature-rich tool that lets you capture and organise data during online investigations.
SingleFile lets you capture and save a full web page as a single HTML file.
Working with Foreign Language Content
CopyFish lets you copy, paste and translate text from any image, video or PDF.
DeepL: AI Translator and Writing Assistant is a Chrome extension provided by DeepL, one of the best alternatives to Google Translate.
Mate Translate is a feature-rich translation tool. It can be used to translate websites, documents, highlighted text and even Netflix subtitles. You can also use it to translate the text you type. It currently supports over 100 languages.
Simple Translate combines Google and DeepL translation capabilities in one extension.
Academic Research
Cite This for Me: Web Citer and MyBib: Free Citation Generator let you generate citations for web pages and other digital materials you are viewing in the citation style of your choice.
Google Scholar Button lets you access Google Scholar from any website you are visiting.
Science Research Assistant lets you search for a keyword or phrase across multiple scientific resources.
Unpaywall helps you find free full-text versions of scholarly publications that you can access without legal concerns.
Writing
Grammarly is Chrome extension offered by a popular writing assistant Grammarly. Use it to improve your spelling, grammar, punctuation, clarity, and writing style.
InstaText is an interesting alternative to Grammarly.
Quillbot gives you quick access to a powerful set of AI-powered writing tools.
Security and Privacy
Adblock Plus is an efficient and simple-to-use extension that enables content filtering, including ad blocking.
Click&Clean lets you delete your cache, cookies, browsing history, download history and more with a single click.
Ghostery is a popular extension that blocks ads, stops trackers and speeds up browsing.
LastPass is a popular, free password manager.
NoScript is a popular script blocker for Chrome and Firefox.
Privacy Badger is a privacy enhancing tool from the Electronic Frontier Foundation that blocks third party trackers from monitoring your browsing behaviour.
User Agent Switcher for Chrome lets you switch between popular user-agent strings. In other words, it lets you impersonate another browser or operating system. This not only protects your privacy but can aid research as websites can display different information and offer different functionalities depending on the browser and operating system you use to access them.
Data Scrapping
Copytables lets you scrape tabular data from websites you visit.
Data Scraper is a feature-rich yet simple and effective web scraper that can be used to harvest different types of web content.
Instant Data Scraper lets you extract data from web pages and export them as Excel or CSV files.
Thunderbit is a powerful AI-based web scraper.
Working with Links
Bulk URL Opener lets you open multiple URLs at once.
Link Gopher extracts URLs from websites, sorts them, removes duplicates and displays a list of links in a new tab for you to copy.
Open Multiple URLs lets you open multiple URLs simultaneously. It also extracts URLs from text.
Multi-Purpose OSINT Extensions
Vortimo OSINT-tool is a browser extension and web application that lets you keep track of every web page you visit, extracts information from visited web pages, highlights relevant keywords, uses graphs to facilitate analysis of captured information, and more.
Working with Extensions
Chrome Extension Chrome Viewer lets you view the source code of any Chrome extension in the Chrome Web store without installing it.
Extensity, Extension Manager and Extension Manager are three extension managers that allow you to easily enable and disable extensions added to your Chrome browser.
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