yt-dlpgithub.com
Command-line downloader for video and audio from YouTube and over a thousand other sites. Preserves metadata, subtitles, thumbnails and comments for archiving and evidence.
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tools / bellingcat-auto-archiver
Bellingcat Auto Archiver
Automates archiving of social media posts, videos and web pages from a spreadsheet or CLI, with hashing and timestamping to preserve evidence.
freeactiveosscli
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Point it at a Google Sheet of URLs. Teams can then drop links in and get archived copies, screenshots and hashes back automatically.
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This tool is active: it interacts directly with the target's infrastructure or may otherwise reveal your interest to the target. Use a research environment and weigh the risk before running it.
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