
01 · Product name
Sputnik
A browser menu for OSINT pivots.
Published by mitchmoser.
In short
Sputnik is the browser extension in mitchmoser/sputnik that sends an IP, a domain, a URL, or a file hash to other OSINT sites. On 20 Oct 2026 the GitHub SPDX field was NOASSERTION. LICENSE.md and package.json say MPL-2.0, and the Firefox add-on page says Mozilla Public License 2.0. The Chrome manifest and the Chrome Web Store both said version 1.25. The Firefox manifest and the add-on page both said 1.32. The store's 5.0 is the rating from 15 ratings, not the version. The extension was not installed.
Product pricing strategy
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Free
Nothing opened on 20 Oct 2026 printed a price for Sputnik. The Chrome Web Store page and the Firefox add-on page both present it as an extension you add, with no checkout. The SPDX field on the GitHub API was NOASSERTION. LICENSE.md is a copy of the Mozilla Public License, Version 2.0, and package.json says MPL-2.0. The Firefox page's license line is Mozilla Public License 2.0. Those license sentences are not a fee. There is no hosted plan to upgrade into. The store's 10,000 users and the Firefox page's 680 users are install counts on those pages, not a price and not a rating. No donation badge was required to describe the extension.
Utility and features
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The README says you highlight an artifact or right-click a link, then pick an OSINT tool. For some tools the extension opens a result. For tools that need a captcha, it copies the artifact and opens the submission page. The README groups the menu by IP, domain, file hash, and URL. Names already in this directory, including Shodan, Censys, VirusTotal, and urlscan, appear in those lists. The lists also name sites this directory does not review. A menu entry is a link. The other site's page is the result. This review did not install the extension and did not open a pivot.
- SPDX is NOASSERTION. The GitHub license field was NOASSERTION. LICENSE.md, package.json, and the Firefox page name MPL-2.0.
- 1.25 and 1.32. Chrome's manifest and store listing said 1.25. Firefox's manifest and add-on page said 1.32. package.json said 1.0.0.
- The rating is not the build. 5.0 from 15 ratings is the Chrome Web Store rating. The version line under Details was 1.25.
The Chrome Web Store listing, offered by Mitchell Moser, said version 1.25, updated March 2, 2026, 10,000 users, and a size of 14.31KiB. The rating line was 5.0 from 15 ratings. The Firefox add-on page said version 1.32, size 421.49 KB, last updated 8 months ago as of that page's label dated Feb 27, 2026, 680 users, and a rating of 5 from 4 reviews. The GitHub repository had no release. package.json version 1.0.0 is a third version string and is not the store build. The answer uses NOASSERTION because that is the SPDX field.
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Install the build whose version you mean, and write Chrome 1.25 and Firefox 1.32 as separate facts.
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Use a pivot as a link to another tool. Read that tool's page before you brief it.
- 3
Do not treat the store rating as a release number.
Caveats
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Three version sentences were true on 20 Oct 2026. Chrome's manifest and the Chrome Web Store said 1.25. Firefox's manifest and the add-on page said 1.32. package.json said 1.0.0. The store rating 5.0 from 15 ratings is not a version, and the Firefox rating of 5 from 4 reviews is not a version either. Do not collapse them.
The SPDX field was NOASSERTION even though the license file and the Firefox page name MPL-2.0. Quote the field and the file as different sentences. The extension was not installed, so no pivot result is claimed. A right-click menu does not verify the site it opens. Some names in the README, such as older threat-crowd hosts, may have changed since the menu was written. The repository's last push on the GitHub API was 2026-02-27.
Potential use cases
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- An install note is about to say Sputnik 5.0. On the Chrome Web Store page opened 20 Oct 2026, 5.0 is the rating from 15 ratings, and the details block says version 1.25, updated March 2, 2026, with 10,000 users. The Firefox add-on page said version 1.32, 680 users, and a rating of 5 from 4 reviews. package.json said 1.0.0. Write the build and the rating as different sentences.
- The license is about to be smoothed into one line. The GitHub SPDX field was NOASSERTION. LICENSE.md and package.json say MPL-2.0, and the Firefox page says Mozilla Public License 2.0. The answer uses the SPDX field and still quotes the file. No price was printed on either store page.
- A right-click is about to be briefed as the pivot result. The README says the menu opens another OSINT site, or copies the artifact when that site needs a captcha. This review did not install the extension. Shodan, Censys, VirusTotal, and urlscan are examples of names in the menu, not results this listing retrieved.
Hard cases
The case where the first result is easy to over-read.
The star rating is typed as the build
Chrome's 5.0 sits next to 15 ratings, and Firefox's 5 sits next to 4 reviews. The version lines on those same pages are 1.25 and 1.32. A ticket that upgrades the extension to 5.0 has confused a rating with a release. Quote the manifest that matches the browser.
Practitioners using it
Posts on X from people describing a concrete use. The quote is the post. Likes and reposts are the counts saved with it, not a live total. A label marks a creator, a maintainer, a vendor, a partner, a data partner, or an investor.
Sputnik Chrome extension for quick gathering info about IP, domain, hash or URL in dozens of different services: Censys, GreyNoise, VirusTotal, Shodan, ThreatMiner and many others. https://t.co/KjrXLlQ3QD #osint pic.twitter.com/Ien7xk6OlX
Could use https://t.co/WEC4BOSF4b to check phishing pages or Sputnik chrome extension to double check info for a site.
Sputnik is a great browser plugin especially for security analysts to quickly search IPs, Domains, File Hashes, and URLs using free Open Source Intelligence (OSINT) resources.
Questions
Is Sputnik free?
The store pages opened on 20 Oct 2026 showed no price. The SPDX field was NOASSERTION. The license file and the Firefox page say MPL-2.0.
Which version is current?
Chrome was 1.25 on the manifest and the store. Firefox was 1.32 on the manifest and the add-on page. package.json said 1.0.0. The store's 5.0 is a rating.
Citations
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Titled sources. These public pages are what the quotes on this listing come from.
Product
Sputnik on the Chrome Web Store
https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/sputnik/manapjdamopgbpimgojkccikaabhmocdDocumentation
Sputnik repository
https://github.com/mitchmoser/sputnikPricing
Sputnik on Firefox
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/sputnik-osint/

