Digital Archiving
Digital Archiving tools -- a subcategory of Archiving & Preservation
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8 Tools
ArchiveBox
27KSelf-hosted web archiving tool that saves pages as HTML, PDF, screenshots, and WARC files from bookmarks, history, or RSS feeds.
Papra
4KSelf-hosted document management tool that provides document management platform.
Open Archiver
1.8KOpen Archiver lets you run email archiving solution with full-text search and eDiscovery search features entirely on your own server.
mail-archiver
1.7KMail-archiver is a C#-based application that provides web application for archiving.
Bichon
1.5KBichon lets you run lightweight e-mail archiver entirely on your own server.
Ganymede
928Ganymede is a Go-based application that provides twitch VOD and live stream archiving platform. Includes a rendered chat for each archive.
Eonvelope
198Released under AGPL-3.0, Eonvelope provides email archiving software on self-hosted infrastructure.
Webcap
Webcap is a self-hosted digital archiving tool that provides web archiving and change detection.
Why Self-Host Your Digital Archiving Tools?
Web pages disappear. Tweets get deleted. Articles go behind paywalls. Services shut down and take your data with them. Cloud storage providers like Google Drive and Dropbox are not archiving tools — they sync current files but do not preserve the web content, emails, and digital artifacts that you might need years later. Self-hosted archiving tools capture and preserve digital content in formats you control, on storage you own.
ArchiveBox is the most comprehensive self-hosted web archiving tool, capturing web pages as HTML, screenshots, PDFs, and WARC files simultaneously. It preserves the full page including CSS, JavaScript, images, and embedded media — not just the text. Papra provides document archiving with tagging and full-text search. Ganymede archives Twitch streams and VODs for content creators who want to keep their broadcast history independent of Twitch’s retention policies. WebCap captures website screenshots on a schedule, useful for monitoring competitor sites or documenting web content changes.
Email archiving is a distinct but related need. Mail-Archiver and Open-Archiver capture and index email history from IMAP servers, creating searchable archives independent of Gmail or Microsoft Outlook. Bichon provides email backup with a focus on privacy. Eonvelope handles envelope-level email metadata archiving. Unlike cloud email providers that can change retention policies or shut down (Google has killed numerous services), self-hosted archives persist as long as your storage exists, in open formats that any future tool can read.