> For the complete documentation index, see [llms.txt](https://bellingcat.gitbook.io/toolkit/llms.txt). Markdown versions of documentation pages are available by appending `.md` to page URLs; this page is available as [Markdown](https://bellingcat.gitbook.io/toolkit/categories/archiving.md).

# Archiving

| Name                               | Description                                                                                                                                                                                           | Cost                                                         | Tool Review and Guide                                                                                                                                                                                                        |
| ---------------------------------- | ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | ------------------------------------------------------------ | ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
| Archive.today                      | Archive any webpage and search for archived pages.                                                                                                                                                    | <mark style="background-color:green;">Free</mark>            | [https://bellingcat.gitbook.io/toolkit/more/all-tools/archive.today](/toolkit/more/all-tools/archive.today.md)                                                                                                               |
| Auto Archiver                      | Bellingcat's tool to automatically archive social media posts, videos, and images. Free and Open-Source.                                                                                              | <mark style="background-color:green;">Free</mark>            | [https://bellingcat.gitbook.io/toolkit/more/all-tools/auto-archiver](/toolkit/more/all-tools/auto-archiver.md)                                                                                                               |
| Bellingcat TikTok Hashtag Analysis | Archive content and metadata from TikTok posts that contain one or more specified hashtags                                                                                                            | <mark style="background-color:green;">Free</mark>            | <p><sub><em>Guide not available</em></sub></p><p><a href="https://github.com/bellingcat/tiktok-hashtag-analysis"><mark style="background-color:blue;"><https://github.com/bellingcat/tiktok-hashtag-analysis></mark></a></p> |
| Distill                            | Distill is a website change monitoring tool that allows users to track changes on web pages.                                                                                                          | <mark style="background-color:orange;">Partially Free</mark> | [https://bellingcat.gitbook.io/toolkit/more/all-tools/distill](/toolkit/more/all-tools/distill.md)                                                                                                                           |
| Hunchly                            | An archiving tool that tracks online activities and preserves essential information about the web pages researchers visit.                                                                            | <mark style="background-color:red;">Paid</mark>              | [https://bellingcat.gitbook.io/toolkit/more/all-tools/hunchly](/toolkit/more/all-tools/hunchly.md)                                                                                                                           |
| Lumen                              | A research project collecting and publishing legal takedown notices for online content transparency                                                                                                   | <mark style="background-color:green;">Free</mark>            | [https://bellingcat.gitbook.io/toolkit/more/all-tools/lumen](/toolkit/more/all-tools/lumen.md)                                                                                                                               |
| Wayback Machine                    | The Wayback Machine is the Internet Archive's free tool for viewing and saving archived web pages, with over a trillion pages captured, widely used for historical research and digital preservation. | <mark style="background-color:green;">Free</mark>            | [https://bellingcat.gitbook.io/toolkit/more/all-tools/internet-archive](/toolkit/more/all-tools/internet-archive.md)                                                                                                         |
| Web Archives                       | A browser extension to view archived and cached versions of a website on multiple archiving sites.                                                                                                    | <mark style="background-color:orange;">Partially Free</mark> | [https://bellingcat.gitbook.io/toolkit/more/all-tools/web-archives](/toolkit/more/all-tools/web-archives.md)                                                                                                                 |


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