![]() If there is anything after this ID (such as “taken-by=username”), remove it. For example, the photograph with the URL /p/ BfZJzBphUr1/ has an ID of BfZJzBphUr1. Find the photograph’s URL on Instagram and removing any content after the ID number.To access a photograph on Instagram at full resolution, use the following method: Often, the best we can do is hope that the post has been mirrored on another site (there are a number of less-than-reputable sites that “borrow” Instagram’s content and host it themselves) and manually save the images in full resolution. Unfortunately, archiving away Instagram pages is very difficult. Be sure to take a screenshot of the metadata and save the page on Archive.today so that the title, upload date, and description is preserved, even if the video is not saved on the page. Archiving videos from YouTube is not at all difficult, as long as you have enough hard drive or cloud space to store them. There are a great number of sites that can pull videos from YouTube, such as KeepVid, Y2Mate, and others. Instead, we need to download the materials separately, then provide complementary materials (such as screenshots showing the metadata, mirrored versions of the materials, etc.) to show that the images and videos are authentic. For these sites, it is much more difficult to create a third-party, “neutral” platform to host the media. ![]() If you read the previous section, it is clear that both and Archive.today are unable to save photographs and videos from Instagram and YouTube, and have issues with saving photographs from Facebook, VK, and other sites. ![]() You can see details on how to participate in their project here, but it is more involved than a simple one-click solution found on and archive.today. However, has a separate project called YouTube Crawl, which archives videos from YouTube with metadata intact. To save a page on this site, just enter the URL you want saved into the red box. Saved pages on Archive.today are entirely from user-submitted requests, and not automatically retrieved, as with. There are alternate URLs to the site (Archive.is, Archive.li, Archive.ch…) that can let you bypass some the censorship of some (but not all) countries, such as Russia, China, and Finland. Additionally, this site has been banned in a number of countries due to the fact that extremist content is sometimes shared via Archive.today links. However, it has not been around nearly as long as, and it should be seen as less stable due to the fact that it is a much smaller operation. Of the two main archival sites, Archive.is is the most versatile, and more friendly to social network sites. In general, Archive.today is more versatile in saving social network pages, as they saving pages through an account created for these sites, while can only see completely public pages that do not require an account. We will summarize how each of these sites work, along with how effective they are in capturing pages on a number of the most popular social network sites. We generally recommend to save materials on both sites in order to maximize the amount of archived content. Better yet, both of these sites will save snapshots of pages over time, so you can observe changes for each time it was archived, such as before and after a news article was redacted. These two sites save web pages on their own servers, accessible to anyone with a URL. Third-party archive platformsįor most content, including social media posts, news stories, and other web pages, there are two services that will usually work: Archive.today and. Screenshots can be easily forged, so it is vital that you find a way to retain the materials in a way that shows that you did not have the opportunity to modify the content. There are two main reasons to archive all of the digital evidence that you use an investigation: to preserve it in case it is removed from its original source, and to prove to your audience that the material (if it has been removed) really existed as you present it. For example, a social media post may be deleted by a user after you publish an investigation, or a video on YouTube showing sensitive information (such as a war crime in Syria) may be deleted due to censorship policies set by YouTube. When conducting open source investigations, an ever-present issue is how to archive away the materials you are researching. Throughout this story, click on any of the images to view in full resolution.
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