Web and social media evidence capture software
Shorenet is software for capturing web pages and social media posts as evidence. Browse as you normally would, and our desktop application, Shorenet Trawler, records what each website actually sent. A witness service we operate witnesses that traffic on its way to you, and the capture is sealed so any later change shows. The result is built for the other side’s expert to check for themselves, rather than take your word for it.
What it captures
- Websites and web pages. Pages, listings, terms and pricing, as the site served them, on any site you open in the capture browser.
- Social media. Posts, profiles and comments on Facebook, Instagram, X, TikTok, LinkedIn and YouTube, including content you are logged in to.
- Web messaging. Telegram on the web is supported today. WhatsApp is in development, and native mobile apps are not captured. Where each platform stands.
- Video. Rebuilt from YouTube captures, clearly labelled as a reconstruction.
- Structured records. For Instagram and Telegram, the accounts, posts, messages and media you capture, and how they connect.
The evidence is the web traffic itself, not a picture of the screen. A screen recording can run alongside as a guide to what you saw.
Why not a screenshot or a web archive?
A screenshot shows what a screen displayed, and can be faked in a minute. Many web archives and capture services record what their own software wrote down. Both work until someone challenges them, and then the argument becomes one about who to believe.
A Shorenet capture is built to move that argument onto something checkable: it was witnessed on its way by our independent witness service, which whoever made the capture does not control. It holds no keys to read the traffic, though like any network relay it sees where the traffic is going. The traffic can also be exported in the standard format Wireshark reads, so an expert can examine it with tools they already trust. The detail. Screenshots, archives and network captures: what each actually proves.
Who uses it
Litigation and disclosure
Preserving web pages and posts for litigation, in a form built so the other side can test it when they serve a notice to prove.
Police and investigators
Open-source web and social media evidence, captured so the defence will be able to check it for itself.
OSINT and journalism
OSINT evidence capture before deletion, with a record built so an editor, lawyer or tribunal can check it.
Insurance
Claimant posts and ghost-broker sites, captured as the website sent them.
Regulators and fraud teams
Financial promotions, adverts and scam sites, preserved before the takedown.
Brand protection and workplace investigations
Counterfeit listings, copycat sites and online conduct, as they were actually served.
What you get, and what you need
Each capture produces a case package you can hand over as it is: the sealed evidence (one file per exhibit), a PDF report written for court and stills from the rebuilt pages; the other side will be able to check it with an independent validator. The validator will be free and openly licensed, published before live casework. Evaluation participants receive it first. Trawler runs on a 64-bit Windows 10 or 11 computer and works with Chrome, Edge, Firefox and Brave.
Platforms that already capture web content for their customers can build the same engine into their own product with Shorenet Keel.
Shorenet is not yet on general release, and the validator is not published yet. Teams can test it first in a free evaluation.
What it does not do
- It shows what a website sent, not that the content is true. A faithful record of a false post is still a record of a false post.
- It does not identify who ran an account. That remains investigative work.
- It cannot capture the past. Content deleted before you capture it cannot be recovered or witnessed.
- It does not detect deepfakes. It proves what a website sent, not whether what it shows is real.
- We run the witness service. It is independent of whoever captured the evidence, not of us. What trusting our witness service means.
Preserve it before it changes.
If your work relies on evidence of what was online, talk to us about the evaluation programme.