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bellingcat/auto-archiver

Automatically archive links to videos, images, and social media content from Google Sheets (and more). observed · 2026-08-28

github.com/bellingcat/auto-archiver · homepage · Python · MIT (permissive) observed · 2026-08-28

Health v2 · maintenance only

92/100

  • Activity 98
  • Release rhythm 81
  • Longevity 100
How is this computed?

round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10) — computed 2026-09-02. Adoption (stars, forks) is never an input.

  • gap_med: 5
  • age_days: 2056
  • days_rel: 128
  • days_push: 15
  • n_releases_24m: 20

Full methodology

Adoption not part of the score

1109 stars · 107 forks observed · 2026-08-28

What it is AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, 2026-08-30, confidence not recorded

A Python tool by Bellingcat that automatically archives web content such as videos, images, social media posts, and webpages from URLs supplied via Google Sheets, CSV files, or the command line. Archived content can be enriched and stored locally or remotely (S3, Google Drive), with status reports written back to the source.

Use cases

  • archive social media posts before they get deleted
  • bulk archive URLs from a Google Sheet
  • preserve videos and images for open-source investigations
  • automatically snapshot webpages for evidence preservation
  • download and store online content for OSINT research

When to choose

  • you need verifiable, automated archiving of online content for research or journalism
  • you want to feed URLs from Google Sheets or CSV and get status back
  • you want a Docker-deployable archiving pipeline with remote storage options

When to avoid

  • you need a browser-based one-click webpage archiver like the Wayback Machine
  • you only need simple link bookmarking without content capture
  • your sources require heavy JavaScript interaction beyond the supported extractors

Facets

cli-tool · maturity active

web-scraping cli etl file-upload osint crawlers developer-tools python cli cross-platform web-archiving social-media-archiving google-sheets osint bellingcat evidence-preservation automation docker

3 sources

Member repositories

RepositoryRoleHealth v2
bellingcat/auto-archivermain92

For agents

markdown · JSON · MCP: product_card(name="bellingcat/auto-archiver")

Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00 · Report a problem