The new and improved Auto Archiver works best for archiving a large number of URLs. Its modular framework allows you or your team to customise archiving based on your needs, and provides a way to generate metadata that ensures others can trust that your archived content has not been tampered with.
Updates to the tool include new features like chain of custody, perceptual hashing for deduplication and techniques to avoid anti-bot measures and captchas on websites. We’ve also rewritten the documentation and improved the tool's interface, specifically for teams using a shared instance.
We’ve also made it simpler to integrate the Auto Archiver into different systems.For example, you can now use it alongside ATLOS – a collaborative investigations platform which has been used by Bellingcat and @cen4infores.bsky.social. www.atlos.org
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.
Of course no tool is perfect and we’re looking for feedback, if you have suggestions for the tool please reach out via an issue in our GitHub: github.com/bellingcat/a...
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