Social Links review
Combines social and open-web search with entity analysis, alerts, and exports.
Reviewed by iTechGuides Editors · Editorial team · Updated Oct 2026
Social Links is a commercial open-source intelligence platform for investigators, analysts, law-enforcement teams, and corporate-security professionals. Its focus is structured investigation across public social-network and web content, with domain and IP research alongside entity and relationship discovery. Desktop deployment makes it a fit for professional and enterprise teams planning investigations around that environment, rather than a product to select for a broader deployment choice.
The investigation workflow spans search, analysis, and reporting. Users can search public social-network content and open-web sources, investigate domains and IP addresses, then explore relationships through graph-based link analysis and visualization. Monitoring and alerts support ongoing investigations, while exportable results and reports help present findings. API access also supports programmatic investigations. This breadth suits teams that need to connect public-source searches with relationship analysis and follow-up; teams looking for only a single lookup function may find the scope broader than necessary.
Social Links offers commercial products for professional and enterprise users, and its pricing model is contact-sales, so prospective buyers should expect to discuss requirements with the vendor rather than compare published plan prices. The stated support channels are email and documentation. Choose Social Links when social and open-web research, domain/IP investigations, visual link analysis, monitoring, and export or API capabilities belong in the same desktop-based workflow. Consider another tool if open-source software or a deployment option beyond desktop is a requirement.
Social Links pros and cons
- Where it wins
- Searches public social-network content and open-web sources
- Connects entity discovery with graph-based link analysis
- Supports monitoring, exports, and programmatic investigations
- Where it doesn't
- Pricing requires contacting sales
- Deployment is desktop-only
- It is commercial rather than open source
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