Unfurl

Operator: Ryan Benson / Hindsight Foundry

Parses URLs and identifiers, decodes embedded values and shows their components as a graph or text tree.

Technical Infrastructure

OPSEC caution

The online version receives the URL entered. When Remote Lookups are enabled, Unfurl may also send URL data to Virus Total, Bitly or Google Knowledge Graph; this option is off by default locally.

Open website (external website)

Product

Unfurl, URL analysis by Ryan Benson, with a public web application and a local Python/Docker version.

Availability and source date

Active

As of: 17 October 2026.

Check: 17 October 2026.

Public URL parsing and Unix timestamp.

An example URL was parsed into domain, path, parameters and the correct Unix timestamp.

Use in OSINT research

Reads search terms, identifiers and time information from known URLs and encoded values. The graph shows which component each piece of information comes from.

Queries

Input	Result	Result type
URL	Domain, path, parameters, decoded values and embedded timestamps, depending on the parser.	Derived
Platform user ID	Timestamps and other components of supported identifiers, such as Snowflake IDs and UUIDs.	Derived

Features

Parses URLs into domain, path, parameters and fragments.
Decodes Base64, UUIDs and various timestamp formats.
Reads platform-specific information from search engine, social media and chat URLs.
Shows results as a graph, tree or text.
Processes individual inputs or files line by line through the command line.

Coverage

Dataset

Analyses entered URLs and values using built-in parsers and format explanations.

Access

Installation and deployment

Website · Locally installable · Self-hosted

A web application; local Python installation with a browser interface or command line; self-hosting through Docker is documented.

Requirements

Online without an account. Locally, Python 3.11 or later; alternatively Docker. Additional queries may require your own API keys.

Export

A text tree on the web; the CLI provides tree/JSON output and CSV file output.

Provider

Ryan Benson / Hindsight Foundry

Country of establishment

Unknown

Interfaces

No API, MCP or AI integration is documented.

Maintenance

Licence

Apache-2.0

Repository

Latest activity

Commit 10/2026

Stars

776 (as of 17 October 2026)

Legal note

Limitations

The information recognised depends on the supported URL format and parser. Some additional queries require your own API keys.

Guides and practical reports

Official · Install and use Unfurl
Ryan Benson · EN
Shows online access, Python installation, the command line, Docker and Remote Lookups.

Sources

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