Open Source Intelligence (OSINT) has come a long way, and it is still developing ideas, and lots of investigations are yet to happen in the near future. The main essential requirement for all the OSINT investigations is the information that is valuable data from a good source. This paper discusses various tools and methodologies related to Facebook data collection and analyzes part of the collected data. At the end of the paper, the reader will get a deep and clear insight into the available techniques, tools, and descriptions about tools that are present to scrape the data out of the Facebook platform and the types of investigations and analyses that the gathered data can do.
Pranesh Kumar Narasimhan, Chinmay Bhosale, Muhammad Hasban Pervez, Najiba Zainab Naqvi, Mert Ilhan Ecevit, Klaus Schwarz, Reiner Creutzburg, "Open-source Intelligence (OSINT) investigation in Facebook" in Electronic Imaging, 2023, pp 357-1 - 357-12, https://doi.org/10.2352/EI.2023.35.3.MOBMU-357