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🎉 Auto Archiver v1.0.0

We're excited to announce a major stable release of the Auto Archiver tool!

This release comes with some major improvements in stability and flexibility, with a modular and extendable architecture supporting a wide range of archiving extractors, enrichers, feeders, databases and storage methods.

✨ New Features

• We now have full documentation:
  📖 https://auto-archiver.readthedocs.io/en/latest/

  • (Psst: If you were set up for v0.12 or below, check out our upgrade guide to adapt to the new config format.)

• Getting set up for new users should be much easier using the new config editor:
  🛠 https://auto-archiver.readthedocs.io/en/latest/installation/config_editor.html

• New print_pdf option in the screenshot enricher #159

• Added an unauthenticated Bluesky archiver #160

• Major enhancements to the Generic Extractor (previously youtubedl_archiver.py):

  • Extending it to extract targeted content from additional sites using a Dropin structure
  • Auto-updating the yt-dlp module to ensure latest fixes and compatibility"
  • Universal support for valid youtube-dl URLs
  • New TruthSocial extractor

• New settings page UI #217

• Added support for yt-dlp PO Token clients #222

• New unofficial API-based TikTok extractor #237

• Added InstagrAPI server script authenticated access for the instagram_api_extractor.py #281

🧹 Stability and Modularity

• The new modular structure means only modules selected in your config are loaded, keeping the system lightweight and more resilient — if a module you don’t need breaks, your pipeline continues to work.

• Multiple authentication strategies have been added to reduce the likelihood of platform blocking.

• The setup process now validates your config and gives detailed error messages in the output log.

• We’ve increased test coverage and integrated it with GitHub Actions for CI

• Dependency and packaging management has been migrated to Poetry.

Coming soon!

• Bellingcat will release an article and video guide on the Auto Archiver in the coming weeks.

💬 Keep in Touch!

Whether it's a question, a bug report, or a feature request, please get in touch!

• Join our Discord thread for tool support and community discussion:
  🔗 https://discord.com/channels/709752884257882135/1346596825611632770

• Found a bug or want to contribute? Open a GitHub issue or PR using our contribution guide:
  🤝 https://auto-archiver.readthedocs.io/en/latest/contributing.html

🙌 Thanks
A huge thank you to everyone who has contributed, as well as those who provided feedback and ideas throughout development.
@msramalho @pjrobertson