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README.md

Auto Archiver

Auto Archiver is a Python tool to automatically archive content on the web in a secure and verifiable way. It takes URLs from different sources (e.g. a CSV file, Google Sheets, command line etc.) and archives the content of each one. It can archive social media posts, videos, images and webpages. Content can be enriched, then saved either locally or remotely (S3 bucket, Google Drive). The status of the archiving process can be appended to a CSV report, or if using Google Sheets – back to the original sheet.

See the Auto Archiver documentation for more information.

Read the article about Auto Archiver on bellingcat.com.

Installation

View the Installation Guide for full instructions

Advanced:

To get started quickly using Docker:

docker pull bellingcat/auto-archiver && docker run -it --rm -v secrets:/app/secrets bellingcat/auto-archiver --config secrets/orchestration.yaml

Or pip:

pip install auto-archiver && auto-archiver --help

Contributing

We welcome contributions to the Auto Archiver project! See the Contributing Guide for how to get involved!