v1.3 - Snapshotting update

[OSINT-TECHNOLOGIES]

Introduction of Snapshotting

Snapshotting is an important method in OSINT used to preserve and document online content. It allows investigators to capture and save a webpage or its data at a specific point in time, which is crucial for verifying information and tracking changes over time. There are three snapshotting methods which were added in DPULSE with v1.3 release:

• Screenshot snapshotting: taking a picture of how a webpage looks visually, which provides a quick and clear record of the website’s appearance at a specific moment.
• HTML snapshotting: saving the webpage’s source code as HTML file, which allows detailed analysis of the content, structure, and embedded data, and helps detect any modifications.
• Wayback Machine snapshotting: using the Wayback Archive to access and save past versions of a website which is useful for viewing a site’s history, especially if the site has been changed or taken down.

These methods make DPULSE more complex in domain OSINT field, providing investigator with the means of proves capturing and changes detection.

Cleaning up

DPULSE is not ideal tool even after 30 different releases. That's what usually happens with open-source tool developed by only one person. I just want to say that polishing continues: during the work on version 1.3 I cleaned up lots of code, optimized performance, removed redundant modules and so on. In this regard, I want to say that v1.4 release won't contain any new OSINT features, but it will contain a lot of QoL updates. Stay tuned!

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