Archival Tools - How to archive anything.

For large files (above 200 MB):
You can easily get it on multiple file hosters using

Once you upload it, get the URL to each host site and only post those, but not the multiup url to avoid single point of failure if that gets taken down.

Post through a VPN or using Tails if it is very sensitive data.

Always use file hosts but in addition making a torrent is okay if you can seed it for a while (6 months to 1 year or longer) or the content is popular enough that others will care enough to seed it for a long time.

Post the full magnet link as a [CODE] block.

Use qBittorrent or Transmission (installed by default in Ubuntu) or any client on Ninite.com

It’s a good policy to keep the data for as long as you can and the torrent file.
This allows you to perform the good public service of checking in on older torrents and seed if there are peers but no seeds.

Do not use archives or compression on files for torrents.
UNLESS The space saving is very significant. Such as text that would go from tens or hundreds of gigabytes down to single gigabytes.
(Using original files means that people can get original files from other sources and help seed)
Directories are okay.

It’s getting more and more difficult but try to register and upload the torrent on popular public torrent websites to make discovery easier and increasing the likelihood of longer-term seeders.

It’s not necessary but attaching the torrent file itself to post here on the farm, possibly inside a zip file if the software blocks the file extension, is good practice also.

If you can compress it under 200 MB then you should just post it here on the farm or reach out to Null for the special archive.
 
Not sure how reliable this is but Threads.net may soon give users the ability to make temporary threads that disappear after 24 hours, so be sure to archive if you're skimming that site for milk.

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I wrote a guide on archiving Youtube videos in the face of crackdowns. I'd like someone technical to review what I posted, not because I don't know what I'm doing (I do know what I'm doing) or because I'd ever post something malicious, but because it's good practice. My guide can generally automate the process of bypassing geoblocks, and many calls to the script can be chained for AFK, very low effort archiving.
 
The name change to X makes it difficult to find information (bug or feature?), but I am hoping for guidance on how to archive a tweet with comments intact.

Spoilering to keep it marginally more hidden from The Forces That Be. XCancelled appears to be the current iteration of Nitter and plays well with archival tools.
 
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I made a fake X account to follow a user who has a private X account. I would like to back up everything before he goes into DFE mode. Obviously any archive websites are out of the question because they can't access it. I am unable to do a node capture because if I try to scroll back too far I get errors.
 
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Does this site support h265? It's half the file size with little to no loss in quality, depending on the conversion bitrate chosen.
You can upload h265 videos fine, and they'll display. The problem is that not everyone can play them back, whereas h264 support is almost universal. See the caniuse entry for HEVC/h265 and for h264 for more details. This is a device-level concern, not specific to any particular website.
 
It appears that spy.pet is dead. Are there any other similar tools out there that crawl and archive public discord channels?
 
Archive chats from a Discord server using DiscordChatExporter.
It can export into a .txt, .html, .csv and .json.
Very useful to preserve the evidence of minors getting exposed to nsfw or something like that
DiscordChatExporter, while nifty, has an interesting "Terms of use".

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The maintainer also had once added code that would disable it from functioning if it detected you were from Russia. I have no clue if this is still the case but even considering how non-enforceable the Terms of use are, it is worth noting as a cause for concern. It is licensed as MIT though.
 
unenforceable? bro what case do you expect this ToS would enter into play in? it might as well be a joke license. it's less real than @CrunkLord420's GPL+NIGGER.
Never underestimate a retard to try. The amount of viruses people shoved into projects due to the Ukraine+Russia conflict is evidence that their brains are usually out the window, so no telling what little it would take for one to lolsuit up. I actually look forward to the day that happens.
 
The maintainer also had once added code that would disable it from functioning if it detected you were from Russia. I have no clue if this is still the case but even considering how non-enforceable the Terms of use are, it is worth noting as a cause for concern. It is licensed as MIT though.
I've never even seen a "Terms of Use" being applied to a source repository like this. I don't think this is even a real concept. Terms of Use is like for an ongoing customer relationship, like a support contract. Adding something like this to the README makes you look like an idiot who doesn't understand basic software licensing concepts.

With over 52 individual contributors listed on GitHub he won't be able to move away from the overriding MIT licensing without CLAs. He couldn't even use an MIT+SLAVA license if he wanted.
 
DiscordChatExporter, while nifty, has an interesting "Terms of use".

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The maintainer also had once added code that would disable it from functioning if it detected you were from Russia. I have no clue if this is still the case but even considering how non-enforceable the Terms of use are, it is worth noting as a cause for concern. It is licensed as MIT though.
it was safely used to leak uttp private discord messages doe
 
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