Scrapping and transcribing TikTok videos with Python

TikTok has been attracting a lot of attention of OSINT investigators in recent years. In this article, I will show how to implement a Python application which downloads TikTok videos and converts speech to text using OpenAI model.

Putting StackOverflow tags into Graphistry

In my previous article, I described how to use my script to show relations between users and tags. This time, we will go into technical details on crawling StackOverflow, transforming data into graphs and using Graphistry to draw them. Technical side You can download the whole application from the following …

Video – How to run TSVis to find IT candidates with Stackoverflow and Graphistry

We’ve just uploaded a video showing how to use our Technical Skills Visualizer for searching IT candidates with specific sets of skills: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j-LOCUM1dp4 The best part is you don’t need any special tools installed on your computer, just a web browser is enough! Under the hood, we are using https://mybinder.org to …

Scrapping telegram channels with python

In this short tutorial, I want to show how to access telegram using Telethon python library. We will use Python 3.9 to achieve it. First, we will connect to a channel and get all the messages from there. python3 -m pip install –upgrade telethon To connect to a channel, you need to …

Use of NiFi for OSINT automation purposes (part II)

This is the second article that focuses on using NiFi to automate OSINT activities. This time, we get straight to the practical part. If you haven’t read the first part of this tutorial, you can find it here. Pastebin monitoring tool in NiFi Goal Let’s create some basic but practical …

Use of NiFi for OSINT automation purposes (part I)

Do you sometimes feel overwhelmed with manual work during your OSINT investigation? Not all of the work should be automated, but definitely some part of it! You can write custom Python scripts and run it when you need, but what if you don’t know Python, or if you just don’t …