About the Onion Archive

Preserving the hidden web — one .onion page at a time.

What We Do

The Onion Archive crawls and snapshots publicly accessible .onion websites, creating a permanent, searchable record of the Tor hidden services ecosystem. We've saved over 4 million pages and add thousands more every day.

Like the Internet Archive for the clearnet, we believe that even ephemeral or controversial corners of the web deserve preservation — for research, journalism, and historical understanding.

How It Works

Our crawlers run exclusively over Tor, respecting .onion connectivity.
We only archive publicly reachable pages
Anyone can submit a URL to be archived immediately via the Save Page Now tool.
Snapshots are stored redundantly and served through our own .onion mirror.

We do not host, control, or endorse any content found on archived sites. Our role is strictly archival.

If you'd like to help — by contributing code, donating server resources, or simply spreading the word — please get in touch.