Bellingcat Auto Archivergithub.com
Automates archiving of social media posts, videos and web pages from a spreadsheet or CLI, with hashing and timestamping to preserve evidence.
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tools / yt-dlp
yt-dlp
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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Preserve evidence before it's deleted: `yt-dlp --write-info-json --write-comments --write-thumbnail URL` saves the video along with upload date, uploader ID and description in a JSON sidecar.
used in playbooks
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