Robin: AI-Powered Dark Web OSINT Tool

Robin is an AI-powered tool for conducting dark web OSINT investigations. It leverages LLMs to refine queries, filter search results from dark web search engines, and provide an investigation summary.

Installation • Usage • Contributing • Acknowledgements

Features

⚙️ Modular Architecture – Clean separation between search, scrape, and LLM workflows.
🤖 Multi-Model Support – Easily switch between OpenAI, Claude, Gemini or local models like Ollama.
💻 CLI-First Design – Built for terminal warriors and automation ninjas.
🐳 Docker-Ready – Optional Docker deployment for clean, isolated usage.
📝 Custom Reporting – Save investigation output to file for reporting or further analysis.
🧩 Extensible – Easy to plug in new search engines, models, or output formats.

⚠️ Disclaimer

This tool is intended for educational and lawful investigative purposes only. Accessing or interacting with certain dark web content may be illegal depending on your jurisdiction. The author is not responsible for any misuse of this tool or the data gathered using it.

Use responsibly and at your own risk. Ensure you comply with all relevant laws and institutional policies before conducting OSINT investigations.

Additionally, Robin leverages third-party APIs (including LLMs). Be cautious when sending potentially sensitive queries, and review the terms of service for any API or model provider you use.

Installation

Note

The tool needs Tor to do the searches. You can install Tor using apt install tor on Linux/Windows(WSL) or brew install tor on Mac. Once installed, confirm if Tor is running in the background.

Tip

You can provide OpenAI or Anthropic or Google API key by either creating .env file (refer to sample env file in the repo) or by setting env variables in PATH.

For Ollama, provide http://host.docker.internal:11434 as OLLAMA_BASE_URL in your env if running using docker method or http://127.0.0.1:11434 for other methods. You might need to serve Ollama on 0.0.0.0 depending on your OS. You can do by running OLLAMA_HOST=0.0.0.0 ollama serve & in your terminal.

Docker (Web UI Mode) [Recommended]

Pull the latest Robin docker image

docker pull apurvsg/robin:latest

Run the docker image as:

docker run --rm \
   -v "$(pwd)/.env:/app/.env" \
   --add-host=host.docker.internal:host-gateway \
   -p 8501:8501 \
   apurvsg/robin:latest ui --ui-port 8501 --ui-host 0.0.0.0

Release Binary (CLI Mode)

Download the appropriate binary for your system from the latest release
Unzip the file, make it executable

chmod +x robin

Run the binary as:

robin cli --model gpt-4.1 --query "ransomware payments"

Using Python (Development Version)

With Python 3.10+ installed, run the following:

pip install -r requirements.txt
python main.py cli -m gpt-4.1 -q "ransomware payments" -t 12

Usage

Robin: AI-Powered Dark Web OSINT Tool

options:
  -h, --help            show this help message and exit
  --model {gpt4o,gpt-4.1,claude-3-5-sonnet-latest,llama3.1,gemini-2.5-flash}, -m {gpt4o,gpt-4.1,claude-3-5-sonnet-latest,llama3.1,gemini-2.5-flash}
                        Select LLM model (e.g., gpt4o, claude sonnet 3.5, ollama models, gemini 2.5 flash)
  --query QUERY, -q QUERY
                        Dark web search query
  --threads THREADS, -t THREADS
                        Number of threads to use for scraping (Default: 5)
  --output OUTPUT, -o OUTPUT
                        Filename to save the final intelligence summary. If not provided, a filename based on the
                        current date and time is used.

Example commands:
 - robin -m gpt4.1 -q "ransomware payments" -t 12
 - robin --model gpt4.1 --query "sensitive credentials exposure" --threads 8 --output filename
 - robin -m llama3.1 -q "zero days"
 - robin -m gemini-2.5-flash -q "zero days"

Contributing

Contributions are welcome! Please feel free to submit a Pull Request if you have major feature updates.

Fork the repository
Create your feature branch (git checkout -b feature/amazing-feature)
Commit your changes (git commit -m 'Add some amazing feature')
Push to the branch (git push origin feature/amazing-feature)
Open a Pull Request

Open an Issue for any of these situations:

If you spot a bug or bad code
If you have a feature request idea
If you have questions or doubts about usage
If you have minor code changes

Acknowledgements

Idea inspiration from Thomas Roccia and his demo of Perplexity of the Dark Web.
Tools inspiration from my OSINT Tools for the Dark Web repository.
LLM Prompt inspiration from OSINT-Assistant repository.
Logo Design by my friend Tanishq Rupaal
Workflow Design by Chintan Gurjar