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Archive and preserve online video content for research, investigations, and academic work.
A politician's speech gets deleted from YouTube. A company takes down a product demo after a scandal. Eyewitness footage of a news event is removed for "community guidelines violations." Online video is ephemeral — content creators, platforms, and algorithms can make videos disappear at any time.
For researchers, journalists, and academics, this is a serious problem. Your citations and evidence can vanish overnight.
BlackHole lets you download and preserve video content locally, so your research doesn't depend on content staying online.
Download videos you cite in papers — ensure your references remain accessible even if the original is removed.
Archive footage, interviews, and social media posts as evidence before they’re deleted.
Download content for discourse analysis, sentiment studies, and media research.
Collect reference footage, archival material, and B-roll sources.
Download conference presentations and keynotes for later review and citation.
The case for maintaining your own video archive is straightforward:
Responsible use of downloaded content is essential:
Archive online video content before it disappears. Build a permanent local collection for your research.