The Open Source Tool That Has Preserved 150,000 Pieces of Online Evidence

Image: Screenshot of new Documentation site for the Auto Archiver. Image credit: Bellingcat. Post by Miguel Ramalho, Erin Clark, Paddy Roberston. Bellingcat – August 13, 2025.

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 Bellingcat’s journalists to preserve information on dozens of fast moving events such as the Jan. 6 riots – when we first used the tool internally – as well as gather digital evidence for our Justice and Accountability project and to monitor Civilian Harm in Ukraine. […]

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