Awesome-DataHoarding

Note: This is only a first draft/brainstorm. I will try to organize the list with more useful sections in the future
Feel free to contribute!

• Download utilities
  • Web Archiving
  • General
  • Application-specific
  • Download automation
• Backup
• Compression
• Network
• File systems
• File conversion
• Utility Scripts
• Content sharing
• Data curation
• APIs & Online tools
• Hardware / Monitoring
• Data recovery
• Local Media
• Long-term data archiving

Download utilities

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Web Archiving

• ArchiveBox: The open source self-hosted web archive. Takes browser history/bookmarks/Pocket/Pinboard/etc., saves HTML, JS, PDFs, media, and more...
• Browsertrix Crawler: Browsertrix Crawler is a simplified (Chrome) browser-based high-fidelity crawling system, designed to run a complex, customizable browser-based crawl in a single Docker container
• Collect: A server to collect & archive websites that also supports video downloads
• grab-site: The archivist's web crawler: WARC output, dashboard for all crawls, dynamic ignore patterns
• Heritrix: Extensible, web-scale, archival-quality web crawler
• HTTrack: Download a website from the Internet to a local directory
• wail: Web Archiving Integration Layer: One-Click User Instigated Preservation
• webrecorder: An integrated platform for creating high-fidelity, ISO-compliant web archives in a user-friendly interface, providing access to archived content, and sharing collections
• wikiteam: set of tools for archiving wikis

General

• annie: YouTube-DL alternative written in Golang

• aria2: A lightweight multi-protocol & multi-source command-line download utility

• CrowLeer: Powerful C++ web crawler based on libcurl

• curl: Tool and library for transferring data with URL syntax, supporting many protocols

• Horahora: Video hosting website and video archival manager for Niconico, Bilibili, and YouTube

• httpie: A tool similar to curl and wget but designed to be user friendly, useful for web scraping with shell scripts but be aware you're adding a dependency by doing so.

• news-crawl: Cralwer for news feeds based on StromCrawler that prouduces WARC files

• Plowshare: Command-line tool to manage file-sharing site

• Rclone: A command line program to sync files and directories to and from various cloud storage providers

• rsync: An open source utility that provides fast incremental file transfer

• Suck-It: Recursively visit and download a website's content to your disk (multi-threaded)

• wget: Utility for non-interactive download of files from the Web

• wget2: Successor of GNU Wget, works multi-threaded

• wpull: Wget-compatible web downloader and crawler

• you-get: Dumb downloader that scrapes the web

• ytdl-sub: Automate downloading and metadata generation with YouTubeDL

• yt-dlp: A fork of YT-DLP that behaves better

Application-specific

• BBCSoundDownloader: Bulk downloader for BBC's Sound Effects library http://bbcsfx.acropolis.org.uk/
• ChanThreadWatch: Saves threads from *chan-style boards and checks for updates until the thread dies
• comics-downloader: Command-line tool to download comicsand manga in pdf/epub/cbz/cbr from supported sites
• floatplane_ripper: Script to rip all videos from https://floatplane.rip/
• gallery-dl: Download image galleries and collections from pixiv, exhentai, danbooru and more
• Discord-Channel-Scraper: Discord server archival (json output, download attachments and emojies)
• dzi-dl: Deep Zoom Image Downloader
• FanFicFare: Tool for making eBooks from stories on fanfiction and other web sites
• FicSave: Online fanfiction downloader Source code is available, website however is now offline.
• flickr_download: Simple script to download a Flickr set
• Google Images Download: Python script for downloading images
• iiif-dl: Command-line tile downloader/assembler for IIIF endpoints/manifests
• imgbrd-grabber: Very customizable imageboard/booru downloader with powerful filenaming features
• instaloader: Download pictures (or videos) along with their captions and other metadata from Instagram
• InstaLooter: API-less Instagram pictures and videos downloader.
• Instagram Scraper: Instagram-scraper is a command-line application written in Python that scrapes and downloads an instagram user's photos and videos. Use responsibly.
• PyInstaLive: Instagram live stream downloader
• RedditDownloader: Scrapes Reddit to download media of your choice
• Scribd-Downloader: Allows downloading of Scribd documents
• snscrape: A social networking service scraper in Python
• RipMe: RipMe is an album ripper for various websites. Runs on your computer. Requires Java 8.
• Tube Archivist: Self-Hosted Docker container for automated/scheduled YouTube downloads of channels, playlists, etc.
• tumblr-utils: Utilities for dealing with Tumblr blogs, Tumblr backup
• yt-mango: YouTube metadata archiver the Web (HTTP & FTP)
• Youtube-MA: YouTube metadata archiver

Download automation

• bazarr: Companion application to Sonarr and Radarr for downloading subtitles
• FlexGet: Multipurpose automation tool for content like torrents, nzbs, podcasts, comics, series, movies, etc.
• Jackett: API support for torrent trackers (works with Sonarr, Radarr and others)
• Lidarr: Music collection manager for Usenet and BitTorrent users
• Mylar: An automated Comic Book downloader (cbr/cbz) for use with SABnzbd, NZBGet and torrents
• Sick-Beard: PVR for newsgroup users (with limited torrent support)
• Radarr: A fork of Sonarr to work with movies à la Couchpotato
• Sonarr: PVR for Usenet and BitTorrent users

Backup

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• BorgBackup: Deduplicating archiver with compression and encryption

Compression

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• 7-Zip: A file archiver with a high compression ratio
• KGB Archiver: compression tool with unbelievable high compression rate
• peazip: File archiver utility
• PIGZ: Multi-threaded gzip
• WinRAR: Can decompress RAR and zip files

Network

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• NetLimiter: Internet traffic control and monitoring tool for Windows

File systems

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• httpdirfs: A filesystem which allows you to mount HTTP directory listings
• mergerfs: a featureful union filesystem
• NTFS drivers for MacOS

File conversion

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• AAXtoMP3: convert AAX files to common MP3, M4A, M4B, flac and ogg formats through a basic bash script frontend to FFMPEG
• html2warc: Convert web resources to a single warc file
• warcat: Tool and library for handling Web ARChive (WARC) files

Utility Scripts

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• Backblaze B2 sync backup script: Script to sync mutliple directories with Backblaze B2
• flac2mp3_V0.py : Multi-threaded python script to convert all flac files to mp3 V0 while keeping the directory structure
• Misc download scripts: Scripts for downloading content from various websites
• TheFrenchGhosty's Ultimate YouTube-DL Scripts Collection: Collection of YouTube-dl scripts to aid in YouTube channel archival
• rclone_dirsize: Get size of http directory listing with rclone
• rm_empty_subdir: Remove empty sub-directories on Windows
• void-cat-uploader: This script automatically uploads all files inside a directory to https://void.cat
• youtube-dl_soundcloud: Snippet for using YouTube-dl to download soundcloud playlists

Content sharing

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• h5ai: HTTP web server index for Apache httpd, lighttpd, nginx and Cherokee
• ipfs: Protocol and network designed to create a content-addressable, peer-to-peer method of storing and sharing hypermedia in a distributed file system
• opds: Easy to use, Open & Decentralized Content Distribution
• Syncthing: An application that lets you synchronize your files across multiple devices

Data curation

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• baobab: Graphical disk usage analyzer
• beets: Music library manager and MusicBrainz tagger
• browsemonkey: Takes snapshots of file systems for offline browsing and searching.
• Calibre: Ebook manager
• DataCurator-Filetree: A unified filetree for all kinds of data, which should help in storing, categorising and retrieving
• DeepSort: AI powered image tagger backed by DeepDetect
• diskover: File system crawler, disk space usage, file search engine and file system analytics powered by Elasticsearch
• Everything: Locate files and folders by name instantly (Windows)
• FileBot: FileBot is the ultimate tool for organizing and renaming your Movies, TV Shows and Anime
• fucking-weeb: A library manager for animu (and TV shows, and whatever).
• grepWin: A powerful and fast search tool using regular expressions (Windows)
• Hydrus: A desktop application for large media collections
• Kiwix: An offline reader for online content like Wikipedia, Project Gutenberg, or TED Talks
• jdupes: Powerful duplicate file finder
• MediaElch: Media manager for Kodi
• MediaInfo: Convenient unified display of the most relevant technical and tag data for video and audio files
• Mp3tag: Powerful and easy-to-use tool to edit metadata of audio files (Windows/Mac)
• phockup: Media sorting tool to organize photos and videos from your camera
• picard: MusicBrainz tagger
• TeraCopy: Copy your files faster and more securely
• tree: 'tree' command for linux
• WinDirStat: Disk usage statistics viewer and cleanup tool for Windows
• WizTree: Finds the files and folders using the most disk space on your hard drive
• sist2: Lightning-fast file system indexer and search tool
• SyncToy: Microsoft windows file parity across locations tool
• VisiPics: Automatically finds duplicated images

APIs & Online tools

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• iqdb: Multi-service reverse image search
• thetvdb: TV shows metadata (used by plex)

Hardware / Monitoring

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• CrystalDiskInfo: A HDD/SSD utility software which supports a part of USB, Intel RAID and NVMe
• GSmartControl: Easy to use Multi-OS S.M.A.R.T. utility with an easy to understand graphical interface
• Hard Drive Sentinel: Multi-OS SSD and HDD monitoring and analysis software
• smartmontools: Control and monitor storage systems using the (SMART) built into most modern ATA/SATA, SCSI/SAS and NVMe disks

Data recovery

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• PhotoRec FOSS powerful gui data recovery tool
• TestDisk Another FOSS tool by the author of PhotoRec, but this one is for cli

Local Media

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• whipper: Python CD-DA ripper preferring accuracy over speed. Generates .flac, .cue, and .log by default and automatically fetches metadata from musicbrainz. EAC log plugin is available.
• Exact Audio Copy: A freeware, Windows only application similar to the above that doesn't automatically fetch metadata by default, but EAC rips are preferred by most trackers
• MakeMKV: A cross-platform DVD ripper that supports recent blu ray DVDs. It's mostly open source, but the blu ray secret sauce is still hidden
• Handbrake: Open source DVD ripper and media trascoder. Has more options and features than the above, but it cannot rip blu ray discs

Long-term data archiving

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• CommonCrawl: Data collected over seven years (ongoing) which contains web page data, extracted metadata and text extractions.
• Blockyarchive: Archive with forward error correction and sector level recoverability
• par2cmdline: A PAR 2.0 compatible file verification and repair tool