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- 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
Short-term, urgent projects
(none currently)
Medium-term projects
- 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.
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 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
- Naver TV: A South Korean video service is shutting down on 2026-09-30. IRC Channel #navermore (on hackint)
- Photohito: A Japanese photography website is shutting down on 2026-09-30. IRC Channel #photodeleto (on hackint)
- Weebly: Free website builder ending operations in 67 countries on 2026-09-27. IRC Channel #dweebly (on hackint)
- Sina Cloud: Chinese PaaS shutting down on 2026-09-16. Focusing on Sina Video. IRC Channel #sinavapour (on hackint)
- Roblox Groups: To be replaced by a group forum system, completely removed sometime in early 2026. IRC Channel #robloxd (on hackint)
- Wikimedia Etherpad: Wikimedia Foundation's instance of Etherpad. Going to be purged due to large, unsustainable size. IRC Channel #archiveteam-bs (on hackint)
- Tenor: GIF-hosting website will be decommissioned on 2026-06-30. IRC Channel #losttenure (on hackint)
- Bitbucket: Removing issues and wikis on 2026-08-20. IRC Channel #kickthebucket (on hackint)
- US Government: Archiving the US government. IRC Channel #UncleSamsArchive (on hackint)
- 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.
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 2028, with remaining Manifest v2 extensions being removed on 2026-08-31. IRC Channel #chromeweblore (on hackint).
- Instagram: Photo sharing website owned by Facebook. IRC Channel #instagone (on hackint).
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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)
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- 2012
- June 30th: Apple is shutting down MobileMe in favor of iCloud. Help us archive it!
- May 1st: Knol closes.
- April 30th: Fortune City is closing. Downloads are being sifted through now
- 2010
- October 31st: The Geocities Torrent is published.
- May 1st: We got slashdotted! This has roughly doubled the number of people in the IRC_Channel, which you should totally join. There is now a FAQ up about the GeoCities project.
- 2009
- April 28th: GeoCities is dying!