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HISTORY IS OUR FUTURE

And we've been trashing our history

Archive Team is a loose collective of rogue archivists, programmers, writers and loudmouths dedicated to saving our digital heritage. Since 2009 this variant force of nature has caught wind of shutdowns, shutoffs, mergers, and plain old deletions - and done our best to save the history before it's lost forever. Along the way, we've gotten attention, resistance, press and discussion, but most importantly, we've gotten the message out: IT DOESN'T HAVE TO BE THIS WAY .

This website is intended to be an offloading point and information depot for a number of archiving projects, all related to saving websites or data that is in danger of being lost. Besides serving as a hub for team-based pulling down and mirroring of data, this site will provide advice on managing your own data and rescuing it from the brink of destruction.

Currently Active Projects (Get Involved Here!)

Archive Team recruiting

Help us: ☞ Download and run your warrior ☜ . What's on: online tracker.

Donate to keep our projects going.

Anything shutting down? Put it on the Deathwatch or tell us on IRC !

Want to code for Archive Team? Here's a starting point.

Warrior-based projects

ArchiveTeam's Choice:

Telegram (with a weight of 1.0)

Telegram (for Warriors that don't have the update to pick a project at random from a weighted list)

Short-term, urgent projects

US Government: Archiving the US government. IRC Channel #UncleSamsArchive (on hackint)<br>NIH VideoCast: Contains videos of meetings, conferences, and seminars.

NIH NLM Digital Collections: Contains documents of American medical ecosystem.

NIH FITBIR: Contains data records from studies funded by the DoD and NIH.

Medium-term projects

Meta Ad Library: Database for advertisements for Facebook and other products by Meta. IRC Channel #fads (on hackint)

Roblox Groups: To be replaced by a group forum system, completely removed sometime in early 2026. IRC Channel #robloxd (on hackint)

data.world: Open data catalog platform closed on 13-07-2026 due to being acquired. IRC Channel #archiveteam-bs (on hackint)

US Government: Archiving the US government. IRC Channel #UncleSamsArchive (on hackint)<br>Radio Free Asia: Non-profit media organization owned by USAGM.

Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty: Non-profit media organization owned by USAGM.

Voice of America: An internationally-broadcasting state media network at risk of closure.

Wikimedia Etherpad: Wikimedia Foundation's instance of Etherpad. Going to be purged due to large, unsustainable size. IRC Channel #archiveteam-bs (on hackint)

Long-term projects

Distributed recursive crawls: A project to recursively crawl large websites that have no clear structure that can easily be split into work items. IRC Channel #Y (on hackint) .

Telegram: Archiving public messages in various newsworthy and/or otherwise notable Telegram channels. IRC Channel #telegrab (on hackint) .

Twitch: Archiving metadata and select videos. IRC Channel #burnthetwitch (on hackint)

URLTeam: URL shorteners were a fucking awful idea. IRC Channel #urlteam (on hackint) .

URLs: A random collection of stuff. IRC Channel #// (on hackint) .

YouTube: Archiving selected videos. IRC Channel #down-the-tube (on hackint) .

Long-term, slower-paced projects

These are projects that are actively running but generally only have small numbers of items available to complete at a time.

Blogger: Grabbing inactive Blogger blogs since Google began a mass purge of inactive Google accounts on or after 2023-12-01. IRC Channel #frogger (on hackint) .

Imgur: Unregistered users' "old" and "inactive" images will be purged, and all NSFW content is being shown the door on 2023-05-15. IRC Channel #imgone (on hackint) .

MediaFire: Not 'at-risk' but grabbing speculatively to save historic files. Not currently running, but links are still welcome. IRC Channel #mediaonfire (on hackint) .

Microsoft Update: Removal of legacy Windows drivers announced. IRC Channel #windowfixer (on hackint)

Pastebin: Archiving the pastas. IRC Channel #pastalavista (on hackint) .

Manual projects

ArchiveBot: For those with lots of disk space, bandwidth and long-term commitment. IRC Channel #archivebot (on hackint) .

Codearchiver: Dumping and archival of source code repositories and associated version control systems. IRC Channel #codearchiver (on hackint) .

GitHub: Embraced-uh, I mean, bought by Microsoft. IRC Channel #gitgud (on hackint) .

Dead people: When people die, their webpages and/or social media might go "Poof!" due to fees and other knick-knack. IRC Channel #archiveteam (on hackint)

Discord: Find invites? Send them in, maybe someone will eventually make an export. IRC Channel #discard (on hackint)

Wikibot and WikiTeam: Saving wikis dumps (XML). And their external links for the Wayback Machine (WARC) as well as exporting MediaWiki databases. Permanent effort, everyone can...