Research tools
Especially helpful and innovative research tools that journalists and others can use to hold power to account.
Google Trends API
The Google Trends API enables programmatic access to data from Google Trends, helping researchers, journalists, and developers conduct better analysis on search behavior and trends.
AI Diffusion Report
The report introduces three indices—the AI Frontier Index, the AI Infrastructure Index, and the AI Diffusion Index—to help policymakers, researchers, and industry leaders understand where breakthrough...
Guide on digitally-mediated assemblies and how to monitor them
Ask the right questions to gather data on assemblies and protests organised and/or held online, offline or a combination thereof.
FleetLeaks
Free maritime sanctions database tracking 800+ vessels across OFAC, EU, UK, CA, AU, NZ with live AIS monitoring to expose shadow fleet operations.
From Dashboards to Data Acquisition: Charting the Social Media Monitoring Market
By Chris Miles with Brandon Silverman and Anna Lenhart
Magic File Tool
This tool allows you to extract text, metadata, selectors and images from supported files.
Auto Archiver
Bellingcat’s Auto Archiver is a tool aimed at preserving online digital content before it can be modified, deleted or taken down.
teeline.online
A free resource for studying Teeline shorthand.
Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ)
Directory of Open Access Journals: Find open access journals & articles.
Nonprofit Explorer
Browse millions of annual returns filed by tax-exempt organizations with ProPublica’s Nonprofit Explorer. See details like executive compensation, revenue, expenses and more.
Kanishka Kloud
KanishkaKloud visualises what MPs talk about most - by collating and filtering data from every word they’ve ever said in Parliament.
SentimentTube Analytics
Unlock insights from YouTube comments with the power of AI
Pathfinder (concept mapper)
Enter in two concepts and it uses AI to chart paths between them
OSINT Industries
Powerful Tools For Online Investigations
Youth Data Lab (Canada)
Youth Data Lab amplifies the voices of young people through over 7000 youth survey responses, 31,000 minutes of youth interviews, and 35,000 quantitative data points covering 65 Canadian cities.
PollFinder.ai
PollFinder.ai leverages large language models to help newsrooms collect and organize both horserace and issue polls, enabling journalists to write stories that are informed by an up-to-date aggregatio...
CEUK scorecards marking tool
This is a tool for crowdsourcing data, initially designed for gathering data about local authority climate actions for https://councilclimatescorecards.uk/
PiRogue Tool Suite (PTS)
Open-Source Platform for Mobile Device Forensics and Digital Investigations
The Counter
SOMO’s global helpdesk for environmental and social justice activists challenging corporate power
Guardoni
Guardoni is a free software automated web scraper, used to collect data about platforms as Youtube and Tik Tok.
Open Data Editor (ODE)
Find errors in your datasets quickly, and learn useful data skills on the go
CIB Mango Tree
We are a collaborative and open-source project to develop software that tests for coordinated inauthentic behavior (CIB) in datasets of online activity.
UKGrantmaking
UKGrantmaking seeks to provide an overview and insight into grantmaking in the UK across different funding sectors.
Every CRS Report
We’re publishing reports by Congress’s think tank, the Congressional Research Service, which provides valuable insight and non-partisan analysis of issues of public debate. These reports are already a...
TV Kitchen
TV Kitchen is an open source community making it easy to create, collect, and share tools to understand the impact of media. LEARN MORE READ THE DOCS
The 2024 Web Almanac
Our mission is to combine the raw stats and trends of the HTTP Archive with the expertise of the web community.
The HTTP Archive
The HTTP Archive Tracks How the Web is Built.
Eyecite Citation Extractor
Eyecite is a high performance, robust, open source tool for extracting legal citations from text.
Juriscraper Legal Scraping Toolkit
Juriscraper is a data gathering library written in Python that collects legal opinions, PACER content, and oral arguments from the American court system.
Doctor
Doctor is a microservice for converting and extracting documents and audio files.
X-Ray Bad Redaction Detector
X-Ray is a fast and robust tool to identify bad redactions in PDF files.
Little Cases Bots
The Big Cases bot follows the biggest cases in the country, but many people want updates for specific topics they follow.
Academia.edu
Find Research Papers, Topics, Researchers
Dataset Search
Dataset Search is a search engine for datasets. Using a simple keyword search, users can discover datasets hosted in thousands of repositories across the Web.
The People Say
A qualitative research database featuring excerpts from 100+ hours of interviews with older adults talking about the issues most important to them.
Public Data Access Programs - A First Look
The EU’s Digital Services Act mandates greater researcher data access from platforms; Mozilla and the National Conference on Citizenship investigated 19 platforms’ responses
Telescope
a Discord bot for ethical, responsive digital ethnography
Sourcebase Inquiry
sourcebase.ai is an AI platform designed for journalists, researchers, and professionals who need to make sense of massive amounts of source material.
Common Crawl
Common Crawl maintains a free, open repository of web crawl data that can be used by anyone.
Overton
Track your policy impact
Say When
Find when something was said in a video or podcast with AI-powered SayWhen.us
Fatima
Fatima's mission is for every person in the world to have their voice heard, while ensuring a safe, secure, and ethical research experience.
Civic Infrastructure Scan
To build the foundations of democracy with intention, as Jill Blair and Malka Kopell suggest, there is a need to survey the types of civic infrastructure in place and how these building blocks fit tog...
Collaborate
Collaborate is an open-source tool that newsrooms can use to enable multiple reporters to share a dataset.
morph.io
Take the hassle out of web scraping
OCCRP Aleph
The global archive of research material for investigative reporting.
Airtable of public information for transparency purposes
An Airtable of 30 anti-corruption projects
X-ray contact
A platform for searching information about people based on open-source data
Free Law Project
Free Law Project is the leading nonprofit using software, data, and advocacy to make the legal ecosystem more equitable and competitive.
Pinpoint
Explore and analyze large collections of documents. By Google Journalist Studio.