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IG-Detective 🕵️‍♂️📸

Created by @shredzwho | 💖 Sponsor this project

Python 3.13+ License: MIT Rich UI

IG-Detective is a high-performance, Python-based Open Source Intelligence (OSINT) tool for Instagram. It offers a premium interactive shell to perform deep analysis on Instagram accounts, extract location history, mapping interactions, and generating automated investigative reports.

[!WARNING] Disclaimer: This tool is for educational and research purposes only. Use it responsibly and in accordance with Instagram's Terms of Service. The author is not responsible for any misuse.


⚡ Features

🛡️ Evasion & Stealth (Advanced)

  • TLS Fingerprint Spoofing: Uses a headless Playwright chromium browser with playwright-stealth to mimic a real environment, completely bypassing Cloudflare and CDN rate-limiting.
  • Deep Evasion Fallback: Automatically cascades to an unauthenticated headless browser fetch if an authenticated session is shadowbanned (e.g., HTTP 401/429/400 blocks), omitting cookies and forging headers to emulate a pristine pristine connection.
  • Poisson Jitter: Human-like randomized delays between requests to mimic natural user behavior.

⚡ Performance & Optimization

  • Headless Memory Tuning: Stripped-down Playwright browser configuration that explicitly drops heavy visual assets (images, fonts, stylesheets) via route interception to achieve ultra-fast query speeds.
  • Asynchronous Data Export: Utilizes ThreadPool parallel downloading for the data archival command, drastically speeding up complete profile media replication.

🔍 Core Reconnaissance

  • User Info: Comprehensive profile details (ID, Bio, Followers, Business status).
  • Followers/Following: List and export target's social network.
  • Post Analysis: Detailed breakdown of recent content, likes, and comments.

📍 Advanced OSINT

  • Interactive Geospatial Mapping: Extracts GPS coordinates from posts and generates a Folium interactive_map.html with readable addresses and clickable pins.
  • Social Network Analysis (sna): Maps interactions to identify the "Inner Circle"—the top 10 users most highly connected to the target.
  • Temporal Activity Profiling (temporal): Uses DBSCAN clustering to identify the target's "sleep gap" and predict their primary Time Zone.
  • Story Extraction (stories): Fetch active story URLs.

🔬 Research-Driven Forensic Modules (Bleeding-Edge)

  • Account Recovery Enumeration (recovery): Trigger password reset flow to reveal masked contact tips for administrative email verification.
  • Co-Visitation Analysis (intersect): Identify physical physical meeting points by cross-referencing GPS/Time intersections between two targets.
  • Stylometry (stylometry): Generate a digital "Linguistic Signature" to link multiple accounts based on bigram and emoji distribution.
  • Engagement Audit (audit): Statistical detection of inauthentic bot activity via temporal jitter variance.

📦 Investigation Management

  • One-Click Export (data): Automatically download a target's followers list, following list, and timeline media (with metadata JSON), packaged into a single ZIP archive.
  • Automated Reporting: Every command automatically saves results to JSON and TXT reports in data/<target>/.
  • Autonomous Batch Mode: Process multiple targets sequentially from a text file.
  • Intelligent Caching: Lightning-fast repeated queries via TTL-based caching.

🚀 Installation

  1. Clone the repository

    root@kitploit:~
    git clone https://github.com/shredzwho/IG-Detective.git
    cd IG-Detective
    
  2. Set up Virtual Environment

    root@kitploit:~
    python3 -m venv venv
    source venv/bin/activate  # On Windows: venv\Scripts\activate
    
  3. Install Dependencies

    root@kitploit:~
    pip install -r requirements.txt
    

🐳 Run with Docker (Recommended)

You can run IG-Detective entirely within Docker to avoid dependency issues. The container requires an interactive TTY (-it) and a volume mount to save your forensic reports.

  1. Using Docker Compose (Easiest)

    root@kitploit:~
    docker-compose run --rm detective
    
  2. Using standard Docker

    root@kitploit:~
    docker build -t ig-detective .
    docker run -it -v $(pwd)/data:/app/data ig-detective
    

🛠 Usage

  1. Launch the Shell

    root@kitploit:~
    python3 main.py
    # or use the provided wrapper:
    ./run.sh
    
  2. Core Commands Once inside the shell, you must first set a target before running analysis modules:


📑 Detailed Documentation

For a deep dive into the system architecture, forensic methodologies, and evasion logic, see: 👉 DOCUMENTATION.md


📂 Project Structure

  • main.py: Main entrypoint for the shell.
  • run.sh: Launch wrapper script.
  • src/api/: Network layer containing the Playwright stealth client and auth manager.
  • src/core/: Foundation layer with data models and config.
  • src/modules/: Business logic layer with scrapers and deep analytics tools.
  • src/cli/: Presentation layer with the interactive prompt and Rich formatters.
  • data/: Automated investigative reports (git-ignored).

🤝 Contributing

Feel free to fork this project and submit pull requests. For major changes, please open an issue first to discuss what you would like to change.

📜 License

[MIT]

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CommandDescription
target <user>Set the investigation target (Required first step)
infoView basic profile OSINT (bio, external links, metadata)
postsFetch the target's recent timeline activity & stats
addrsExtract geographical targets from embedded GPS
dataExport target footprints (media, followers) to a ZIP File
surveillanceContinuously monitor and trace target metrics/bio changes live
snaPerform Social Network Analysis to map the "Inner Circle"
temporalCalculate timezone and sleep behavior via DBSCAN
stylometryNLP linguistic profiling on captions (Emojis & N-grams)
recoveryTrigger password reset flow to reveal masked contacts
intersectCross-reference GPS/Time intersections between two targets
auditStatistical detection of inauthentic bot activity
helpDisplay the interactive help menu
exitExit the CLI cleanly