Research tools for online drama
Piece together what happened
on YouTube, X, TikTok, Instagram, Vimeo and Discord
Organise events and evidence on a timeline, look up YouTube videos in the archives, and read and analyse Discord exports.
Free during the beta. Sign in with Google or email.
Timeliner
Events and evidence on one timeline
Lay events out in order across layers, attach the evidence to each one, and present it when you're ready.
- Evidence on every card. Screenshots, video and audio files, notes, and links to YouTube, X, TikTok, Instagram and Vimeo that play right on the card.
- Paste a link, get a date. A pasted YouTube video or post on X names the card and puts it when it was published.
- Keep the page as it was. Capture a snapshot of a link, keep its text, or save it to the Wayback Machine.
- Timelines inside timelines. Nest a timeline in a card, take notes along a video's own clock, or overlay one timeline on another.
- Present it. Presentation mode reveals the evidence one card at a time.
YouTube Archive
Search YouTube archives
Check web archives for copies of a YouTube video, and its title, description, channel and upload date.
- One search, several archives. The Wayback Machine, Archive.org, PreserveTube, GhostArchive, Filmot, Hobune, Nyane, Let's Play Index and YouTube itself.
- Copies and details together. Plays a copy your browser can play, and shows the details from whichever archive has them.
- From a link. Change
youtube.comtoyoutube.drama.toolsin any video link to search it. - Saved searches. Finished searches are kept in your browser, so reopening one is instant.
Discord Archive
Read and analyse Discord exports
Open the files other Discord exporters make and read them as Discord showed them, then search them and see who said what, and when.
- Works with the other exporters. Imports DiscordChatExporter, Discrub, Discord History Tracker and Discord's own data package, a file or a whole folder at a time, merged without duplicates.
- Reads like Discord. Replies, embeds, reactions, polls, threads and roles, with search across a whole server by author, channel, date and attachment.
- Profiles and server analytics. Activity, roles and name history for everyone, and how a server's activity changes over time.
- Bots and moderation. Rebuilds moderation logs from MEE6, Dyno, Carl-bot and other bots, and reads bot commands and replies.
- Private. Archives stay in your browser, and the files you import are read there, never uploaded.
Saving conversations straight from Discord is coming soon.
Open the Discord ArchiveStays in your browser
Your timelines, searches and archives are saved on your own device, not on our servers. Export them whenever you like.
One account
Sign in once with Google or email and it works across every Drama Tools app.
Free during the beta
Everything here is free while we build it. New tools join the set as they're ready.