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wget-lua
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Alternative to HTTrack (website copier) as of 2023?
You're using it wrong, rtfm, wget is still the standard. It's also extensible beyond the base feature set, take for example wget-lua ArchiveTeams well maintained go to for near all scraping projects by the group.
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Kiwix - Access Wikipedia (And More) With no Internet
There are updates changed names but still use more frequent updates than the dumps to get started. I know there is kiwix and xowa. Could probably build it up to current and use wget-at to scrap wikipedia solo. If you want it in html it'll proboy only be a hundred 100TB give or take. I'm wondering if any of the groups are still active on IRC. Saw mentions of a few but I lost my place in all the mobile chrome tabs.
browsertrix-crawler
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Webrecorder: Capture interactive websites and replay them at a later time
(Disclaimer: I work at Webrecorder)
Our automated crawler browsertrix-crawler (https://github.com/webrecorder/browsertrix-crawler) uses Puppeteer to run browsers that we archive in by loading pages, running behaviors such as auto-scroll, and then record the request/response traffic. We have some custom behavior for some social media and video sites to make sure that content is appropriate captured. It is a bit of a cat-and-mouse game as we have to continue to update these behaviors as sites change, but for the most part it works pretty well.
The trickier part is in replaying the archived websites, as a certain amount of re-writing has to happen in order to make sure the HTML and JS are working with archived assets rather than the live web. One implementation of this is replayweb.page (https://github.com/webrecorder/replayweb.page), which does all of the rewriting client-side in the browser. This sets you interact with archived websites in WARC or WACZ format as if interacting with the original site.
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Come back, c2.com, we still need you
I use browsertrix-crawler[0] for crawling and it does well on JS heavy sites since it uses a real browser to request pages. Even has options to load browser profiles so you can crawl while being authenticated on sites.
[0] https://github.com/webrecorder/browsertrix-crawler
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Alternative to HTTrack (website copier) as of 2023?
I have started using the tools from https://webrecorder.net like Browsertrix Crawler and they have been working great. The web archive format is open source and very portable. The crawler even crawls and saves YouTube videos embedded on pages which is awesome.
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Halomaps, which has been the main hub for Halo modding content for almost 20 years, is having it's forums shut down on Feb 1st. A massive amount of content will be lost if it's not archived.
This looks like a good candidate for https://github.com/webrecorder/browsertrix-crawler.
- Offline Internet Archive
- Options to backup https://trythatsoap.com/?
- How to Download All of Wikipedia onto a USB Flash Drive
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Ask HN: Best approaches to archiving interactive web journalism/writing
I just learned about this organization, Saving Ukrainian Cultural Heritage Online (SUCHO): https://www.sucho.org/
They seem to be using various tools, like Browsertrix: https://github.com/webrecorder/browsertrix-crawler
It sounds promising for interactive sites:
> Support for custom browser behaviors, using Browsertix Behaviors including autoscroll, video autoplay and site-specific behaviors
Browsertrix links to https://replayweb.page/ for a way to view an archived site.
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How is ArchiveBox?
If you need more advanced recursive spider/crawling ability beyond --depth=1, check out Browsertrix, Photon, or Scrapy and pipe the outputted URLs into ArchiveBox.
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Looking for suggestions for archiving Google Groups
I recommend this: https://github.com/webrecorder/browsertrix-crawler
What are some alternatives?
7-Zip-zstd - 7-Zip with support for Brotli, Fast-LZMA2, Lizard, LZ4, LZ5 and Zstandard
grab-site - The archivist's web crawler: WARC output, dashboard for all crawls, dynamic ignore patterns