Show HN: Focal Harvest – local web research and OSINT pipeline

Category: devtools

Tags: osint, web-scraping, llm, automation, research

Score: 4.7/10 (Innovation: 5, Technical: 5, Documentation: 4, Utility: 4)

Focal Harvest is a command-line pipeline that automates web research and OSINT collection by querying search engines, scraping and cleaning pages in parallel, and synthesizing results into structured Markdown reports with multi-LLM failover. It also supports scheduled monitoring across 17+ platforms with alerting, keeping all data local.

Target audience: security researchers, OSINT analysts, data engineers, developers

Repository: https://techno-neighbour.github.io/focal-harvest/

View on Hacker News