Collection
A preservation stack for saving web evidence, recovering older pages, and documenting public-source timelines.
Tools in this collection
Journalists, researchers, legal teams, and investigators preserving public web material or reconstructing how a claim changed over time.
Role: Recover historical snapshots
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Archive.today
Snapshot archiving service for cited web pages
Best for: Quick static snapshots of individual public pages when a second archive path is useful or Wayback capture is…
Role: Check an independent snapshot path
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Harvard Library Innovation Lab
Scholarly and legal web citation preservation
Best for: Use it when a cited web source needs a durable reference for legal, academic, policy, or investigative documentation.
Role: Create a durable citation copy
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Library of Congress
Curated public web archive collections
Best for: Use it when an investigation needs institutionally curated historical web context around public issues, governments, elections, or events.
Role: Consult curated institutional archives
Role: Query web-scale crawl history
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Hunchly
Automatic web-capture and case-notes tool for online investigations
Best for: Preserving visited web pages, notes, and case context while an online investigation is still active.
Role: Preserve case-level browsing evidence
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urlscan GmbH
URL render, screenshot, and network trace capture
Best for: Capturing a URL render, screenshot, DOM/network trace, redirects, loaded resources, and visible page behavior during phishing, web-evidence, or…
Role: Record page and request behavior
Role: Locate prior claim assessments
Workflow notes
Use this stack when a source may change, disappear, or need historical context. It combines capture services, large-scale archives, browser evidence handling, and source checks so investigators can preserve claims without treating archived pages as final truth.
