Uploaded August 2025 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago

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Bellingcat’s Auto Archiver is a tool aimed at preserving online digital content before it can be modified, deleted or taken down. Publicly launched in 2022, it has preserved over 150,000 web pages and social media posts to date. The Auto Archiver has been used by individual researchers, journalists, activists, archivists, academics and developers. In this video we will talk you through the latest updates to the tool, it's now more reliable and easier to use.

You can find the tool here: github.com/bellingcat/auto-archiver
Or go straight to the documentation: auto-archiver.readthedocs.io/en/latest

If you want to support us on this journey of archiving critical information, you can:
- Donate directly to Bellingcat: bellingcat.com/donate
- Test, give feedback, and develop new features in our GitHub: github.com/bellingcat/auto-archiver

Please give us any feedback or suggestions for improvements by contacting us via contact-tech@bellingcat.com.

If you work in a newsroom or research team and want to access a demo or help to deploy the Auto Archiver internally you can reach us at contact-tech@bellingcat.com with the Subject “Auto Archiver at [my team/organisation]” and tell us more about your organisation and archiving needs.


Chapters:

00:00 - 00:35 Introduction
00:36 - 01:07 Purpose of the Auto Archiver Tool
01:08 - 01:54 Changes to the tool
01:55 - 02:40 Installing the tool
02:41 - 03:29 Default settings
03:30 - 04:40 Archiving using Google Sheets
04:41 - 05:49 Editing the configuration file
05:50 - 06:13 Other features
06:14 - 06:52 Help us improve the tool further