Best practices for archiving websites

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  • ArchiveBox

    🗃 Open source self-hosted web archiving. Takes URLs/browser history/bookmarks/Pocket/Pinboard/etc., saves HTML, JS, PDFs, media, and more...

  • Look into ArchiveBox, which is purpose-built for this process, and provides a wealth of options for the archival process. From the website:

  • replayweb.page

    Serverless replay of web archives directly in the browser

  • Use the Webrecorder tool suite https://webrecorder.net! It uses a new package file format for web archivss called WACZ (Web Archive Zipped) which produces a single file which you can store anywhere and playback offline. It automatically indexes different file formats such as PDFs or media files contained on the website and is versioned. You can record WACZ using the Chrome extension ArchiveWeb.page https://archiveweb.page/ or use the Internet Archive’s Save Page Now button to preserve a website and have the WACZ file sent to you via email: https://inkdroid.org/2023/04/03/spn-wacz/. There are also more sophisticated tools like the in-browser crawler ArchiveWeb.page Express https://express.archiveweb.page or the command-line crawler BrowserTrix https://webrecorder.net/tools#browsertrix-crawler. But manually recording using the Chrome extension is definitely the easiest and most reliable way. To play back the WACZ file just open it in the offline web-app ReplayWeb.page https://replayweb.page.

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