Data Harvester is a structured, step-by-step guide to open-source intelligence (OSINT) - the practice of finding information that people have already made public. Starting from just a name, it walks through a methodical process for locating associated public social profiles and digital traces.
OSINT is widely used for legitimate purposes: verifying who you're dealing with online, journalists researching a story, security teams checking their own organization's public exposure, or simply auditing your own digital footprint. Most guides on the topic are scattered across forums; this repo organizes the process into a clear sequence.
Everything covered is passive and legal - it works only with information that's already publicly accessible, with no unauthorized access, scraping behind logins, or bypassing of any platform's protections. It's written to be educational first.
