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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. ukraine-timemap ukraine-timemap Public

    TimeMap instance for Civilian Harm in Ukraine

    JavaScript 275 44

  2. octosuite octosuite Public

    GitHub Data Analysis Framework.

    Python 1.9k 165

  3. auto-archiver auto-archiver Public

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

    Python 971 89

  4. telegram-phone-number-checker telegram-phone-number-checker Public

    Check if phone numbers are connected to Telegram accounts.

    Python 1.6k 251

  5. ShadowFinder ShadowFinder Public

    Find possible locations of shadows around the world

    Python 504 41

  6. open-source-research-notebooks 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.

    Jupyter Notebook 272 27

Repositories

Showing 10 of 61 repositories
  • toolkit Public
    bellingcat/toolkit’s past year of commit activity
    JavaScript 390 76 5 0 Updated Nov 3, 2025
  • sugartrail Public

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

    bellingcat/sugartrail’s past year of commit activity
    HTML 67 MIT 9 5 1 Updated Nov 3, 2025
  • bcat-discord-bot Public

    bcat-discord-bot

    bellingcat/bcat-discord-bot’s past year of commit activity
    Python 2 1 0 0 Updated Nov 2, 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 971 MIT 89 13 (1 issue needs help) 8 Updated Nov 1, 2025
  • adsb-history Public

    Collect and query ADS-B data to find aircraft and trends based on geographic region(s), altitude, bearing, aircraft type and more.

    bellingcat/adsb-history’s past year of commit activity
    Vue 0 MIT 0 0 0 Updated Oct 29, 2025
  • ColourHighlighter Public

    Use WebGL to apply colour filters (LUTs) to screen shares for geolocation and other research tasks.

    bellingcat/ColourHighlighter’s past year of commit activity
    TypeScript 4 MIT 0 0 0 Updated Oct 29, 2025
  • auto-archiver-api Public

    API to manage users/sheets/URLs and call the auto-archiver in dedicated workers.

    bellingcat/auto-archiver-api’s past year of commit activity
    Python 12 MIT 1 7 0 Updated Oct 23, 2025
  • CouncilSearcher Public

    Find verbatim quotes from council meetings in the UK and Ireland using this free open source research tool by Bellingcat.

    bellingcat/CouncilSearcher’s past year of commit activity
    Python 12 MIT 1 7 3 Updated Aug 27, 2025
  • ukraine-timemap Public

    TimeMap instance for Civilian Harm in Ukraine

    bellingcat/ukraine-timemap’s past year of commit activity
    JavaScript 275 44 0 0 Updated Aug 12, 2025
  • uniform-timezone Public

    Extension to standardize dates and times to the same timezone across social media websites.

    bellingcat/uniform-timezone’s past year of commit activity
    JavaScript 34 MIT 7 5 0 Updated Jul 11, 2025

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