What is Social Archiver?

Social Archiver is a cross-platform archiving service with clients for web, mobile, desktop, browsers (Chrome and Firefox), and Obsidian. Save social media posts, web pages, newsletters, podcasts, and other supported sources to your private archive library, then browse, organize, sync, or share them from the client that fits your workflow.

The Problem

Social media platforms are ephemeral. Posts disappear, accounts get deleted, platforms shut down. Valuable content you care about can vanish overnight.

The Solution

Social Archiver gives you a permanent, searchable archive library for online content:

• Clean Archive Format: Structured, readable archives with Markdown output in the Obsidian client
• Media Preservation: Preserves images and videos where supported
• Profile Crawling: Bulk-archive recent posts from any creator's profile
• Subscriptions: Automatically archive new posts from creators you follow
• Timeline Feed: Browse all your archives in a filterable, searchable timeline view
• Places: Attach multiple places to a post and browse archives by place in lists and maps
• Web Sharing: Share your archived posts to the web with public timelines
• Collections: Group posts like folders, share them with one link, or collect them together with other people
• AI Comments: Add AI-powered analysis using local CLI tools—summaries, fact-checks, glossaries, and more
• Your Own AI API Key: Chat with a post, research it, and get AI replies to notes that mention an AI, straight from your phone or computer with your own OpenAI, Anthropic, Gemini or OpenRouter key
• Rich Metadata: Timestamps, platform information, link preview cards, and other structured fields
• Cross-Device Sync: Keep the archive library, inbox/archive state, tags, highlights, notes, shares, and deletes in sync across supported web, mobile, browser, and Obsidian clients
• Mobile Integrations: Export media to Immich, exchange bookmarks with Raindrop, and send completed archives to Notion, Reader, and Karakeep
• Mobile App: Standalone iOS and Android apps with share extensions for quick archiving and offline browsing
• Browser Extension (Chrome, Firefox): Archive the current page, right-click URLs, clip web pages with an editor, and import Instagram, Reddit Saved, and X Bookmarks
• Web App: Browse, archive, organize, and share from social-archive.org

Supported Platforms

Archive, crawl, or subscribe across 21 supported platforms and sources: Facebook, Instagram, TikTok, Pinterest, Reddit, YouTube, Bluesky, Mastodon, LinkedIn, X/Twitter, Threads, Naver Blog, Naver Cafe, Brunch, Naver Webtoon, podcasts, Substack, Medium, Tumblr, Velog, and generic RSS blogs. Exact capabilities vary by platform; some sources are RSS/subscription-only.

Key Features

Archiving Process

When you archive a post, it appears in your archive library while the full content downloads in the background. In the Obsidian client, that archive can also be written as a Markdown note in your vault. You'll get live updates as it processes, and it automatically tries again if something fails (up to 3 times). Choose how much to save: just text, text with images, or everything including videos. Any links mentioned in posts get their previews automatically added.

Profile Crawling & Subscriptions

Go beyond single posts. In the Obsidian desktop plugin, profile crawl can bulk-archive recent posts with customizable time ranges and post counts. Subscriptions are account-level and can automatically collect new public posts from supported profiles, channels, and feeds on the server schedule, with smart deduplication that skips content you've already saved. Mobile supports subscription creation and management for the supported mobile set, but does not run profile crawl or Run Now.

Timeline View

See all your saved posts in one scrollable feed. Switch to Media Gallery mode for a Pinterest-style layout showing all images and videos from your archives. Filter by platform, search for keywords, or browse by date. You can also write and publish your own posts right from the timeline, complete with images and optional web sharing.

Web Sharing

Share your archived posts to the web with your personal public timeline. Choose between two sharing modes: Preview mode (copyright-safe with text excerpts and platform links, no media) or Full mode (complete original content). Each shared post gets its own permanent URL, and your username provides access to all your public posts in a real-time timeline that updates automatically.

Collections

Group posts like folders, separate from tags, and share a collection as one live page: Private, Anyone with the link, or Public. Invite people as editors or viewers to collect together, and get notified when they add posts. Available in the mobile app (2.4.0 or later), the desktop app (0.8.0 or later) and the Obsidian plugin (4.8.0 or later). See Collections.

Paid News Articles

Subscribe to The New York Times, Financial Times, WSJ, Bloomberg, The Economist, or Longblack? Sign in once in the mobile app, or in your browser for the extension, and shared articles are saved in full through your own subscription. Articles you open from links inside an archived post become linked archives of that post. See Paid News Articles.

AI Comments

Add AI-powered analysis to any archived post using local CLI tools like Claude Code, Gemini CLI, or Codex. Generate summaries, fact-checks with sources, sentiment analysis, glossaries for technical terms, and, in the Obsidian client, related-note suggestions from your vault. All processing happens locally on your device for complete privacy.

Your Own AI API Key

Add your own OpenAI, Anthropic, Gemini or OpenRouter key and the app in your hand talks to the AI directly, with no computer at home in the middle and no Cloud credits: chat about a post (docked beside the reader on desktop and tablets), research it with sources, run AI comments, and mention an AI in a note to get its reply under the note. Keys stay on the device. See Your Own AI API Key.

Mobile App

Social Archiver is available as a standalone mobile app for iOS and Android. Use it on its own for quick mobile archiving and reading, or enable sync with your other Social Archiver clients, including Obsidian. See the Mobile App page for details.

Browser Extension

Install the browser extension from the Chrome Web Store or Firefox Add-ons to archive supported URLs from the browser, clip generic web pages into editable Markdown, and optionally create share links automatically. See the Browser Extension page for details.

Web App

The web app at social-archive.org lets you use Social Archiver directly from a browser: browse private archives after signing in, archive URLs, manage inbox/archive state, tags, stars, notes, and public sharing, and view public timelines at social-archive.org/{username}. See the Web App and Sharing pages for details.

Release Notes

See Release Notes for product updates across the mobile app, Obsidian plugin, web app, and browser extension. Use the platform filter on that page when you only want updates for one client.

Mobile Integrations

Under Mobile Integrations, the mobile app can send media to Immich, exchange links with Raindrop, and export completed archives to Notion, Reader, and Karakeep. The page explains which credentials remain device-local and which server-backed features need a reachable endpoint.

Platform Guides

• Instagram: save posts, reels, and stories, connect an optional session, import Saved or profile posts with the browser extension, and subscribe to public profiles
• X (Twitter): save individual posts, connect an optional session, import bookmarks with the browser extension, and subscribe to public profiles
• Reddit: save posts and comments, connect an optional session, and import Reddit Saved with the browser extension

Places

Places explains how to group saved posts by location, review AI candidates, attach multiple places, and rediscover archives in a list or map.

Today's Review

Today's Review brings back a few saved posts and highlights every day in the mobile app, desktop app, and Obsidian plugin, with recall questions, flashcards, and an optional daily digest.

Getting Started

Ready to start archiving? Head to the Getting Started Guide.

Pro Tip

Start with text-only mode to test, then enable media downloads once you're comfortable.