Technical and passive OSINT · Open-source components
ExifTool
Licence or access: Artistic License or GPL, same terms as Perl
- license status
- Artistic License or GPL, same terms as Perl
- purpose and i o
- local document/media → metadata, JSON/CSV
- integration fit
- mature CLI/Perl API
- passive profile and limitations
- isolate untrusted files; metadata can be false; redact author/GPS/PII
- official source
- Repository · Site
Official sources
- Repository https://github.com/exiftool/exiftool
- Site https://exiftool.org/
Catalogued at the 2026-09-01 research baseline. Verify the licence, free-tier limits, API schema and source terms again before deployment, and record a version-pinned registry entry for whatever you select.
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