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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)
Recursive Jobs
(with a weight of 2)
Roblox Groups
(with a weight of 10)
Telegram
(for Warriors that don't have the multiple default projects update)
Short-term, urgent projects
Roblox Groups
: To be replaced by a group forum system, completely removed sometime in early 2026.
IRC Channel
#robloxd
(on hackint)
Medium-term projects
Medica Bibliothèque Numérique
: A historical digital library focused on the history of medicine is being progressively replaced by a new platform called
Numerabilis
Meta Ad Library
: Database for advertisements for Facebook and other products by Meta.
IRC Channel
#fads
(on hackint)
US Government
: Archiving the US government.
IRC Channel
#UncleSamsArchive
(on hackint)
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.
Angelfire
: Angelfire is a web hosting service that contains big chunks of early WWW history and has no proper backup.
IRC Channel
#angelonfire
(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)
: 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 help
(you choose the size of your downloads).
IRC Channels
#wikibot
(on hackint)
#wikiteam
(on hackint)
File Formats
and
Just Solve
: Let's Document all the File Formats! also has contents on the likes of subdomains, e.g.
fileformats.archiveteam.org
and
justsolve.archiveteam.org
IRC Channels
#justsolve
(on hackint)
Recently finished projects
Open Diary
: Online diary site burning into ashes on
2026-02-28
IRC Channel
#archiveteam-bs
(on hackint)
Upcoming projects
Chrome Web Store
: Google has announced a timeline of policy changes that will lead to content being removed between
2021-12-01
and 2025.
IRC Channel
#chromeweblore
(on hackint)
Photobucket
: Finally following through on over a year of email threats that free accounts are going to be mass deactivated if they don't pay up.
IRC Channel
#photosucket
(on hackint)
Abandoned iOS App Store & Google Play apps: Both Apple and Google are slimming down on abandoned apps,
with an estimated ~1.5M of them at risk
IRC Channel
#appocalypse
(on hackint)
: General instability; deleting inactive accounts
2019-12-11
sometime.
IRC Channel
#archiveteam-bs
(on hackint)
Dailymotion
: Archiving inactive videos.
IRC Channel
#DailyDemotion
(on hackint)
VKontakte
: A Russian equivalent of Facebook carries the risk of tumbling down under the weight of sanctions as a result of the government's invasion of Ukraine.
IRC Channel
#lostkontakt
(on hackint)
JamiiForums
: the Tanzanian government would like this gone.
IRC Channel
#archiveteam-bs
(on hackint)
LiveJournal
: Very old, widely regarded as in decline, and has a lot of important stuff buried in it.
IRC Channel
#recordedjournal
(on hackint)
The Pirate Bay
: Recently came back up, grabbing an archive for sanity's sake.
IRC Channel
#yarharfiddlededee
(on hackint)
Valhalla
: Where to store what even the
Internet Archive
doesn't have space for?
IRC Channel
#huntinggrounds
(on hackint)
Giphy
: Bought by
Shutterstock, to be "integrated" (assimilated) into
Archiving websites that are
marked as defunct in Wikidata or shops that are removed from All The Places
Google Maps
On hiatus
Peing
: A Japanese question/answer service, was slated to be shutdown on
2025-08-29
IRC Channel
#peingpong
(on hackint)
Tistory
: Will delete inactive blogs on
2025-09-22
IRC Channel
#tatteredstory
(on hackint)
Older projects
Audit 2014
: It's time to verify our shit.
IRC Channel
#auditteam
(on hackint)
Flickr
Yahoo!
SmugMug decided to kill it after finding Yahoo!'s plans to do so before they were bought by Verizon.
IRC Channel
#flickrfckr
(on hackint)
FTP
: Help us find and download all FTP sites!
IRC Channel
#effteepee
(on hackint)
Google Drive
: Same as MediaFire.
IRC Channel
#googlecrash
(on hackint)
. Currently on hiatus.
Google Groups
: "Gone within a year" (
SketchCow
2016-06-07
).
Google News Archive
: Let's store all newspapers at Google, WCGW?
IRC Channel
#papersplease
(on hackint)
INTERNETARCHIVE.BAK
: Grab a slice of the big cake of
The Archive
IRC Channel
#internetarchive.bak
(on hackint)
ISP Hosting
: Finding ISP web hosting services before the Grim Reaper finds them.
IRC Channel
#webroasting
(on hackint)
Miraheze
Shutting down sometime between
2023-09-01
and
2023-10-31
Rescued by new volunteers!
Project Newsletter
: Archiving e-newsletters, currently in development.
IRC Channel
#projectnewsletter
(on hackint)
Quizlet
: Flashcards and other learning tools
IRC Channel
#quizletusin
(on hackint)
Tinkercad
: Autodesk announced its intent to put designs from inactive OAuth accounts back into minds around
2021-05-24
IRC Channel
#tinkerhad
(on hackint)
Tumblr
Yahoo!
considered killing it, now Yahoo has been acquired and Verizon declared war on NSFW blogs. Tumblr has since been sold to Automattic.
IRC Channel
#tumbledown
(on hackint)
Reddit
: Banning communities that generate bad PR for Reddit Inc. Restricted access to APIs and data on
2023-06-19
IRC Channel
#shreddit
(on hackint)
ArchiveTeam uses the hackint IRC network –
ircs://irc.hackint.org:6697
(TLS required) – webchat:
More info
What is What
Who We Are
and how you can join our cause!
Deathwatch
is where we keep track of sites that are sickly, dying or dead.
Fire Drill
is where we keep track of sites that seem fine but a lot depends on them.
Projects
is a comprehensive list of AT endeavors.
Philosophy
describes the ideas underpinning our work.
Some Starting Points
The Introduction
is an overview of basic archiving methods.
Why Back Up?
Because they don't care about you.
Back Up your Facebook Data
Learn how to liberate your personal data from Facebook.
Software
will assist you in regaining control of your data by providing tools for information backup, archiving and distribution.
Formats
will familiarize you with the various data formats, and how to ensure your files will be readable in the future.
Storage Media
is about where to get it, what to get, and how to use it.
Recommended Reading
links to others sites for further information.
Frequently Asked Questions
is where we answer common questions.
Quote of the Moment
"[Yahoo!] found the way to destroy
the most massive amount of history
in the shortest amount of time
with absolutely no recourse"
Internet Atrocity! GeoCities' Demise Erases Web History
By Dan Fletcher, TIME Magazine, Monday,
2009-11-09
In The Media
Who Will Remember Us When The Servers Go Dark?
Cade Diehm,
2026-03-10
The Honey Files Expose Major Fraud!
MegaLag,
2025-12-31
Vine Is Getting a Reboot, and Its New CEO Thinks It Can Make Social Media Great Again
Sam Blum,
Inc.
2025-12-12
Legacy Update expands archive of vanished Microsoft downloads
Liam Proven,
The Register
2025-12-11
The Data Rescue Project: Preserving Government Data Is a Tech & Community Issue
Andrea Guldalian,
Slaw
2025-11-27
Google Did An Oopsie: Vine IS BACK, kind of, as 'diVine'
TechLinked
2025-11-15
After shutting down Vine in 2017, former Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey invests in a reboot of the app with more than 10,000 archived six-second videos
Marco Quiroz-Gutierrez,
Fortune
2025-11-14
Vine komt terug als diVine: inclusief het echte archief van Vine After shutting down Vine in 2017, former Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey invests in a reboot of the app with more than 10,000 archived six-second videos
Laura Jenny,
Dutchcowboys
2025-11-14
Jack Dorsey funds diVine, a Vine reboot that includes Vine’s video archive
Sarah Perez,
TechCrunch
2025-11-14
diVine readuce Vine în era AI: arhivă restaurată, conținut uman, susținere de la Jack Dorsey
mb radio
2025-11-14
Na bijna 10 jaar keert Vine terug als Divine
Joris Getteman,
TechPulse
2025-11-14
Twitter 創始人 Jack Dorsey 資助推出 Vine Reboot
林美玲 (Lin Meiling), '市民時報',
2025-11-14
DiVine brengt gearchiveerde Vine-video’s terug en opent nieuw platform
Tijs Hofmans,
Tweakers
2025-11-14
Джек Дорси финансирует diVine — перезапуск Vine с архивом старых видео сервиса
Техноновости
2025-11-14
diVine: The OG Short-Form Video App Vine Is Coming Back With A Massive Archive Of Classic Videos
ETV Bharat
2025-11-14
Google: goo.gl URL shortener links soon dead
CYBERTALK
2025-08-19
ArchiveTeam, a specialized archiving organization, has completed archiving all links of the shortened URL 'goo.gl'
Gigazine
2025-08-19
(Originally available in
Japanese
ArchiveTeam legt 3,75 miljard oude goo.gl-links vast voor sluiting dienst
Jasper Bakker,
Tweakers
2025-08-19
ArchiveTeam Races to Archive 1.2B goo.gl Links Before 2025 Shutdown
Maya Perez,
WebProNews
2025-08-18
Google is killing millions of web links to save a few bucks
Shira Ovide,
The Washington Post
2025-08-01
More...
Archive Team is in no way affiliated with the fine folks at
ARCHIVE.ORG
Archive Team can always be reached by e-mail at
archiveteam@archiveteam.org
or by
IRC
at the channel
#archiveteam
(on hackint).
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