Digital Preservation Python Packages

bagit-profile

A simple Python module for validating BagIt Profiles.

amclient

Archivematica API client module

telegram-archive

Own your Telegram history. Automated, incremental backups with a local web viewer that feels just like the real app. Docker-ready and supports public chat sharing

pygfried

pygfried is a CPython extension that brings Siegfried, the Go-based signature file format identification tool, to Python.

dead-letter

Convert .eml email exports to Markdown with YAML front matter

file-observer

Deterministic file observation for pipelines — one read-only pass over a directory emits a reproducible JSON manifest of every file's type, metadata, structure, and provenance.

attest-receipts

Own what you buy: durable, portable proof of purchase you hold. The seller signs a receipt, you keep the file, anyone verifies it offline after the store is gone.

ocrd-fork-bagit-profile

A simple Python module for validating BagIt Profiles.

a3m

Lightweight Archivematica — 8 less than a11m.

snapxo

Turn a Snapchat data export into an offline archive with a UI that works just as well on a phone as on a desktop. Sorted media, readable chats, statistics and charts, a Snap Map, plus PDF and spreadsheet exports. Completely local.

ifiscripts

IFIscripts is an open-source digital preservation tool which facilitates collection management workflows within the IFI and further afield. It is freely available from the GitHub repository and subject to modification depending on the progressive needs of collections and based upon policies and preservation standards.

wayback-archive

Rescue whole websites from the Wayback Machine.

brunnhilde

Siegfried-based characterization tool for directories and disk images

mapillary-downloader

better get my mapillary data before it's too late.

jsonid

Identification of JSON (JSONL, YAML, and TOML) objects: JSONID

wparc

Wordpress API data and files archival command line tool

crystal-web

Downloads websites for long-term archival.

yt-mpv

Watch videos on YouTube without ads, and store them on the internet archive while you do it

bitc

Detailed documentation is available here: http://ifiscripts.readthedocs.io/en/latest/index.html

wellcome-storage-service

🗃️ Managing the safe, long-term storage of our digital collections in the cloud

iagitup

Archive GitHub, GitLab, Bitbucket & any git repo to the Internet Archive as portable bundles with rich metadata.

jp2forge

JP2Forge is a specialized Python library for high-quality JPEG2000 image conversion with BnF (Bibliothèque nationale de France) compliance. It provides sophisticated compression capabilities including lossless, lossy, and supervised modes with intelligent quality assessment through PSNR and SSIM metrics.

demystify-digipres

Engine for analysis of Siegfried export files and DROID CSV

pdf2pdfa

Converts PDF to PDF/A-1b, embeds fonts, sets sRGB profile, syncs metadata. CLI & Python library.