Social Media & Forums

ArchiveTeam wiki page tracking 4chan archiving projects, board archivers, and site outage history.

Search engine covering posts on 4chan.org and several 4chan archive sites.

4chan's own official search feature for finding posts across its boards.

Search engine that indexes posts across many independent online forums and message boards.

User-submitted directory of forums built on the Flarum forum software.

Multi-column dashboard-style client for browsing and posting to Reddit.

Hosting platform and directory of thousands of user-created public discussion forums and live chat rooms.

FoolFuuka-based archive mirroring threads and images from several 4chan boards.

Free, no-login public directory for finding Discord servers by topic and tag.

Free, no-login index of over 2.5 million public Discord servers, searchable by name and category.

Craigslist's topic-based discussion forums covering hundreds of subjects and cities.

Search across posts on Gab, an alt-tech Twitter-like social network.

Interactive WebGL visualization mapping subreddits by their overlap and connections.

Timeline search aggregating posts across fringe and alt-platforms including Gab, 4chan, 8kun, Bitchute, Parler, Truth Social, and VK.

Profiles a Reddit username with karma and posting trends over time, top subreddits, word frequency, and a sentiment 'kindness meter'.

Searches the comment history of a specified Reddit username.

Search and analytics tool for Reddit posts and comments by keyword, subreddit, or user.

Directory of subreddits grouped into broad topic categories such as music, entertainment, and conspiracy.

Tripadvisor's travel discussion forums organized by destination.

Australian discussion forum covering broadband, technology, and consumer topics.

Open-source tool and REST API for archiving and searching 4chan threads for OSINT investigations, free.

Decentralized microblogging platform (AT Protocol) with public post search, used to research accounts and discussions the way Twitter/X once was.

Open-source Capture and Analysis Toolkit for downloading and analyzing datasets from social media and forum platforms for research.

Free bulk downloadable Reddit posts/comments dataset (2005-2025, ~3.97TB) distributed via BitTorrent for offline research.

Free bulk Reddit archive and API covering 2005-present with generous unauthenticated rate limits; full-text search is limited to one subreddit at a time.

Free advanced query builder for searching Bluesky posts by keyword, hashtag, author and date range.

Machine-learning detector for bot networks and coordinated inauthentic behaviour on Twitter/X and Bluesky.

Free open-source Python CLI using a real Chromium browser to search TikTok by keyword and flag scam/phishing content, with evidence screenshots and JSONL/CSV export.

Exports comments from Facebook, Instagram, Twitter/X, YouTube, VK, TikTok, and Vimeo posts to Excel, CSV, or JSON.

Checks whether an email or account was exposed in known Facebook-related data breaches.

Guide and query templates for searching Facebook content via Google without being logged into Facebook.

Free, no-login search across Mastodon, Bluesky and Flipboard public posts.

Federated search engine indexing public posts across the ActivityPub fediverse (Mastodon and related platforms), free with an API.

Foursquare City Guide's venue and place search, showing check-in activity for a location or business.

Free, browser-only tool for searching verified advertisers' ads served on Search, YouTube and Display, including an EU DSA disclosure layer.

Search engine for Telegram channels and messages by keyword.

Anonymous viewer and downloader for public Instagram profiles, photos, Reels, and Stories without logging in.

Finds Instagram images by date and location using OSINT Combine's search interface.

Google search query restricted to instagram.com pages containing the word "person", used to surface profile pages.

Free search of archived Kick.com chat messages, videos, usernames and channel slugs with boolean and proximity operators.

Free, browser-only search of LinkedIn ads by advertiser or keyword with country/date filters and EU impression ranges.

Official Meta researcher-access programme for querying public Facebook and Instagram content and ads; free but requires an application and institutional vetting.

Chrome extension that shows whether the current page has been submitted to Reddit and lets you vote, comment, or resubmit from the popup.

Free open-source Python CLI for extracting Instagram followers, hashtags, comments, photos and stories via an unofficial private-API session.

Free tool that shows Reddit posts and comments removed by moderators or deleted, by reading the live Reddit API.

Free Bluesky search tool with RSS feed generation for saved queries; installable PWA, public API only, no login.

Free, no-login search engine that finds public mentions, hashtags and profiles across major social networks and the open web.

TGStat's search engine for Telegram channel posts, covering over 60 billion indexed messages with morphological and faceted filters.

Google Custom Search Engine scoped to Telegram channel and message pages (t.me links).

Searches indexed Telegram channels, groups and messages by keyword; free Lite tier plus paid credit-based deep search.

Telegram channel analytics and ad-intelligence platform with boolean post search across historical and deleted content; freemium with a REST API.

Searches Telegram messages, channels and groups with a REST API and streaming access; freemium pricing.

Official TikTok ad-transparency tool and API built for EU DSA Article 39 compliance, covering paid commercial content served in the EEA.

Searches TikTok usernames and hashtags via browser, linking out to TikTok.com or Google results.

Official TikTok programme giving vetted academic researchers query access to public video and comment metadata; free but application-gated.

Extracts the upload date encoded in a TikTok video's ID from its URL.

Free full-text search of opted-in Mastodon posts across the fediverse.

Twitter/X analytics dashboard showing tweet, follower, and engagement statistics for any public account.

Archive of historical VKontakte profile data, including past comments, photos, and friend lists, searchable by ID or username.

VK's built-in search for finding people by name and birth year.

Retrieves archived tweets from the Wayback Machine's CDX index for a chosen date range, exportable as CSV/JSON.

Free, no-login web tool checking username presence across 732+ platforms in parallel, with CSV export; based on the WhatsMyName site-list project.

Open-source Nitter-fork frontend that lets users view X/Twitter profiles, posts and search results without an account or ads.

Cross-subreddit natural-language search over Reddit content; freemium with a free tier around 75,000 results.

Free open-source YouTube archiving tool built for OSINT that preserves metadata for deleted or privatized videos with an offline viewer and timeline notes.