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Hunchly has become a trusted tool for investigators, analysts, researchers, journalists, and OSINT practitioners worldwide who need to collect and preserve online evidence. In this introductory masterclass, Brock Lupton walks through Hunchly Free, a new no-cost version of Hunchly designed to make professional web-capture workflows accessible to the broader investigative community. Whether you’re conducting online research, documenting digital evidence, or learning the fundamentals of defensible investigations, Hunchly Free provides the essential features needed to capture webpages, organize findings, and maintain an audit trail of your work. 

During this session, you’ll learn how to install Hunchly Free, set up your first investigation, and capture webpages as you browse. Brock demonstrates how Hunchly automatically preserves online content with screenshots, timestamps, cryptographic hashes, local page archives, notes, and image annotations. You’ll also learn how to manage investigation data, extract image metadata, capture social media content, attach downloaded files such as videos and PDFs, and organize findings using selectors and tags. 

By the end of this walkthrough, you’ll understand how to use Hunchly Free as a foundation for repeatable, defensible investigative workflows. While some advanced capabilities remain available only in the licensed version, Hunchly Free delivers the core functionality needed to document findings with confidence, stay organized throughout an investigation, and maintain a reliable record of online evidence.  

If you’re new to Hunchly or looking for a practical introduction to evidence capture and case management, this session is the perfect place to start. Ready to start your first investigation? Download Hunchly Free and explore it for yourself. 

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Key takeaways & Timestamps:

• 01:10 Downloading and installing Hunchly 
• 02:20 Dashboard, local storage, and case setup 
• 03:40 Capturing pages during an investigation 
• 07:40 Notes, image captions, and EXIF metadata 
• 10:30 Capturing videos and attachments 
• 15:50 Documenting Dynamic Social Media Feeds 
• 21:00 Selectors, tags, and organizing case data 
• 27:00 Exporting and sharing Hunchly case files