heritrix3
brozzler
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heritrix3
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WARC'in the Crawler
If anyone's interested in web crawling technology, check out Heretrix [1], been around since 2004 and while not the most performant it has incorporated many responsible disciplines in the design and as this article pointed out, WARC format.
1. https://heritrix.readthedocs.io
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Why isn't the internet more fun and weird?
I've considered running my own IA (https://github.com/internetarchive/heritrix3), which only archives my chrome history, which is stored in a local sqlite db.
I haven't had the time to figure out the details of how the pieces should be glued together.
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Is there a way to archive groups of webpages similarly to how web archive does it?
You can go all the way and use the same tools as the Internet Archive: https://github.com/internetarchive/heritrix3
- Heritrix: Internet Archive's extensible, web-scale, archival-quality web crawler
- Best Http client for web scraping
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The Internet Is Rotting
By the way, the technical side of this is very interesting. If you look at the tools mentioned (the wayback machine, but also perma.cc and other archival solutions), almost all of them rely on a single semi-modern tech stack that produces WARCs (web archives - ISO - ISO 28500:2017 https://iipc.github.io/warc-specifications/specifications/wa...).
The main crawler still seems to be heritrix3 (https://github.com/internetarchive/heritrix3), but there's a great little ecosystem with tools such as webrecorder and warcprox.
Still, I've read through the code of these tools and am feeling that they are failing in the face of the modern web with single page apps, mobile phone apps and walled gardens. Even newer iterations with browser automation are getting increasingly throttled and blocked and excluded from walled gardens.
Perhaps the time has come for a coordinated, decentralized but omnipresent approach to archival.
brozzler
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r18 database of metadata
wget also supports WARC options if you don't need javascript etc. If you do, there's also Warcprox (https://github.com/internetarchive/warcprox), brozzler (https://github.com/internetarchive/brozzler) (which uses warcprox internally), and others.
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Is there a way to archive groups of webpages similarly to how web archive does it?
Actually, the IA uses Brozzler (https://github.com/internetarchive/brozzler) now if I remember correctly.
What are some alternatives?
tubeup - Use yt-dlp to download video and upload to the Internet Archive with metadata.
warcprox - WARC writing MITM HTTP/S proxy
Elasticsearch - Free and Open, Distributed, RESTful Search Engine
archiveweb.page - A High-Fidelity Web Archiving Extension for Chrome and Chromium based browsers!
upvotocracy-ui-ssr - Free speech Reddit clone