Web Archiving Community

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The internet archiving community is surprisingly far-reaching and almost universally friendly!

Whether you want to learn which organizations are the big players in the web archiving space, want to find a specific open source tool for your web archiving need, or just want to see where archivists hang out online, this is my attempt at an index of the entire web archiving community.

• The Master Lists Community-maintained indexes of web archiving tools and groups by IIPC, COPTR, ArchiveTeam, Wikipedia, & the ASA.

• Web Archiving Software Open source tools and projects in the internet archiving space.

  • Bookmarking Services

  • Well-Known Open Source Projects

  • Public Archiving Services

  • ArchiveBox Alternatives

  • Smaller Utilities

• Reading List Articles, posts, and blogs relevant to ArchiveBox and web archiving in general.

  • Blogs

  • Articles

  • ArchiveBox-Specific Posts, Tutorials, and Guides

  • ArchiveBox Discussions in News & Social Media

• Communities A collection of the most active internet archiving communities and initiatives.

  • Most Active Web-Archiving Communities

  • Other Web Archiving Communities

  • General Archiving Foundations, Coalitions, Initiatives, and Institutes

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The Master Lists

Indexes of archiving institutions and software maintained by other people. If there's anything archivists love doing, it's making lists.

• COPTR Wiki of Web Archiving Tools (COPTR)

• Awesome Web Archiving Tools (IIPC)

• Spreadsheet Comparison of Archiving Tools (DataTogether)

• Awesome Web Crawling Tools

• Awesome Web Scraping Tools

• ArchiveTeam's List of Software (ArchiveTeam.org)

• List of Web Archiving Initiatives (Wikipedia.org)

• Directory of Archiving Organizations (American Society of Archivists)

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Web Archiving Projects

Bookmarking Services

• Pinboard Bookmarking tool that provides archiving in a paid version, run by a single independent developer

• Raindrop Bookmarking tool with archiving in their paid version, run by a company est. 2011

• Instapaper Bookmarking alternative to Pocket/Pinboard (with no archiving)

• Wallabag / Wallabag.it Self-hostable web archiving server that can import via RSS

• Shaarli Self-hostable bookmark tagging, archiving, and sharing service

• ReadWise A paid Pocket/Pinboard alternative that includes article snippet and highlight saving

• Diigo Another brookmarking/annotation service with archiving as a paid feature

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From the Archive.org & Archive-It teams

• Archive.org The O.G. Wayback Machine provided publicly by the Internet Archive (Archive.org)

• Archive.it commercial Wayback Machine solution

• Heritrix The king of internet archiving crawlers, powers the Wayback Machine

• Brozzler chrome headless crawler + WARC archiver maintained by Archive.org

• WarcProx WARC proxy recording and playback utility

• WarcTools utilities for dealing with WARCs

• Grab-Site An easy preconfigured web crawler designed for backing up websites

• WPull A pure python implementation of wget with WARC saving

• More on their GitHub...

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From Webrecorder

Webrecorder develops a suite of open source tools, to capture websites and replay them at a later time as accurately as possible. Webrecorder also publishes the WACZ file format spec.

• Browsertrix Fully integrated (self hostable) SaaS web archiving platform

• ArchiveWeb.page Chrome extension for manual, interactive archiving of websites as you browse the web. Good for capturing high-fidelity complex interactions

• ReplayWeb.page Web archive viewer that runs entirely in the browser and doesn't require any server-hosted component to view WARC and WACZ files. Also available as a standalone electron app for local desktop use

• Browsertrix Crawler Command-line crawling application that powers Browsertrix's core crawling features

• pywb aka Python Wayback, the open source toolkit forked from archive.org for self-hosting your own wayback machine among other web archiving tools

• warcit Create a WARC file out of a folder full of assets

• warcio fast streaming asynchronous WARC reader and writer

• More on their GitHub...

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From Rhizome.org (Conifer)

• Conifer by Rhizome.org An open-source personal archiving server that uses pywb under the hood. Previously affiliated with Webrecorder

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From the Old Dominion University: Web Science Team

• ipwb A distributed web archiving solution using pywb with IPFS for storage

• archivenow tool that pushes urls into all the online archive services like Archive.is and Archive.org

• node-warc Parse And Create Web ARChive (WARC) files with node.js

• WAIL Web archiver GUI using Heritrix and OpenWayback

• Squidwarc User-scriptable, archival crawler using Chrome

• WAIL (Electron) Electron app version of the original wail for creating and interacting with web archives

• warcreate a Chrome extension for creating WARCs from any webpage

• More on their GitHub...

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From the Archives Unleashed Team

• AUT Archives Unleashed Toolkit for analyzing web archives (formerly WarcBase)

• Warclight A Rails engine for finding and searching web archives

• More on their GitHub...

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From the IIPC team

• OpenWayback Open source project developing core Wayback Machine components

• awesome-web-archiving Large list of archiving projects and orgs

• JWARC A Java library for reading and writing WARC files.

• More on their GitHub...

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Other Public Archiving Services

• https://archive.is / https://archive.today

• https://ghostarchive.org

• https://perma.cc

• https://arquivo.pt

• https://www.pagefreezer.com

• https://www.smarsh.com

• https://www.stillio.com

• https://archive.st

• https://theoldnet.com/

• https://timetravel.mementoweb.org/

• https://freezepage.com/

• https://webcitation.org/archive

• https://archiveofourown.org/

• https://megalodon.jp/

• https://www.webarchive.org.uk/ukwa/

• https://github.com/HelloZeroNet/ZeroNet (super cool project)

• Google, Bing, DuckDuckGo, and other search engine caches

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Other ArchiveBox Alternatives

There are lots more projects listed here too: https://github.com/stars/pirate/lists/internet-archiving

• Browsertrix + ArchiveWeb.page + ReplayWeb.page Webrecorder's archiving suite has the highest fidelity, and can flawlessly archive YouTube, X, Facebook, and other complex, JS-heavy SPAs

• SingleFile Web Extension / CLI util for Firefox and Chrome to save a web page as a single HTML file

• Memex by Worldbrain.io a beautiful, user-friendly browser extension that archives all history with full-text search, annotation support, and more

• Hypothes.is a web/pdf/ebook annotation tool that also archives content

• Reminiscence extremely similar to ArchiveBox, uses a Django backend + UI and provides auto-tagging and summary features with NLTK

• Shaarchiver very similar project that archives Firefox, Shaarli, or Delicious bookmarks and all linked media, generating a markdown/HTML index

• Archivy Python-based self-hosted knowledge base embedded into your filesystem

• Polarized a desktop application for bookmarking, annotating, and archiving articles offline

• LinkWarden Link archival and curation web app, very similar to ArchiveBox

• Photon a fast crawler with archiving and asset extraction support

• Scoop Create high-fidelity WARC/WACZ captures using a playwright browser, with support for signing, media extraction, PDFs, etc. (by the Perma.cc team)

Ones I haven't personally vetted:

• Shiori Simple bookmark manager + readability archiver built with Go (like a clone of Pocket)

• Percollate A command-line tool to turn web pages into beautiful, readable PDF, EPUB, or HTML docs.

• LinkAce A self-hosted bookmark management tool that saves snapshots to archive.org

• LinkDing Self-hosted bookmark manager that is designed be to be minimal, fast, and easy to set up using Docker.

• LinkWallet A self-hosted bookmark database with full-text page content search and limited archiving features

• Espial Bookmark manager and search tool with limited archiving features

• Diskernet Archiving tool that uses the Chrome debugger protocol to save each page as-loaded in the browser** (aka 22120 by c0fe or i5ik)

• Trilium Personal web UI based knowledge-base with web clipping and note-taking

• Herodotus Django-based web archiving tool with a focus on collecting text-based content

• Buku Browser-independent bookmark manager CLI written in Python3 and SQLite3

• ReadableWebProxy A proxying archiver that downloads content from sites and can snapshot multiple versions of sites over time

• Perkeep "Perkeep lets you permanently keep your stuff, for life."

• Fossilo A commercial archiving solution that appears to be very similar to ArchiveBox

• NeonLink Simple self-hosted bookmark management + Benotes note-taking app with limited archiving features

• Archivematica web GUI for institutional long-term archiving of web and other content

• Headless Chrome Crawler distributed web crawler built on puppeteer with screenshots

• WWWofle old proxying recorder software similar to ArchiveBox

• Erised Super simple CLI utility to bookmark and archive webpages

• Zotero collect, organize, cite, and share research (mainly for technical/scientific papers & citations)

• TiddlyWiki Non-linear bookmark and note-taking tool with archiving support

• Joplin Desktop + mobile app for knowledge-base-style info collection and notes (w/ optional plugin for archiving)

• Hunchly A paid web archiving / session recording tool design for OSINT

• Monolith CLI tool for saving complete web pages as a single HTML file

• Obelisk Go package and CLI tool for saving web page as single HTML file

• Munin Archiver Social media archiver for Facebook, Instagram and VKontakte accounts.

• Wayback Archiving in style like ArchiveBox, but with a chat.

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Smaller Utilities

Random helpful utilities for web archiving, WARC creation and replay, and more...

• https://github.com/TheCakeIsNaOH/xbs-to-archivebox A utility to sync xBrowserSync bookmarks with ArchiveBox

• https://github.com/karlicoss/promnesia A browser extension that collects and collates all the URLs you visit into a hierarchical/graph structure with metadata

• https://github.com/vrtdev/save-page-state A Chrome extension for saving the state of a page in multiple formats

• https://github.com/jsvine/waybackpack command-line tool that lets you download the entire Wayback Machine archive for a given URL

• https://github.com/hartator/wayback-machine-downloader Download an entire website from the Internet Archive Wayback Machine.

• https://github.com/Lifesgood123/prevent-link-rot Replace any broken URLs in some content with Wayback machine URL equivalents

• https://en.archivarix.com download an archived page or entire site from the Wayback Machine

• https://proofofexistence.com prove that a certain file existed at a given time using the blockchain

• https://github.com/chfoo/warcat for merging, extracting, and verifying WARC files

• https://github.com/mozilla/readability tool for extracting article contents and text

• https://github.com/mholt/timeliner All your digital life on a single timeline, stored locally

• https://github.com/wkhtmltopdf/wkhtmltopdf Webkit HTML to PDF archiver/saver

• Sheetsee-Pocket project that provides a pretty auto-updating index of your Pocket links (without archiving them)

• Pocket -> IFTTT -> Dropbox Post by Christopher Su on his Pocket saving IFTTT recipe

• http://squidman.net/squidman/index.html

• https://wordpress.org/plugins/broken-link-checker/

• https://github.com/ArchiveTeam/wpull

• http://freedup.org/

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Furl

• https://preservica.com/digital-archive-software-1/active-digital-preservation For-profit company offering a digital preservation software suite

• https://github.com/karlicoss/grasp capture webpages from Firefox and Chrome into Org-mode documents

• https://github.com/dgtlmoon/changedetection.io Change detection and monitoring of web page content changes

• And many more on the other lists...

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Reading List

A collection of blog posts and articles about internet archiving, contact me / open an issue if you want to add a link here!

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Blogs Friends of ArchiveBox

• https://blog.archive.org

• https://webrecorder.net/blog

• https://netpreserveblog.wordpress.com

• https://blog.conifer.rhizome.org/

• https://ws-dl.blogspot.com

• https://siarchives.si.edu/blog

• https://parameters.ssrc.org

• https://sr.ithaka.org/publications

• https://ait.blog.archive.org

• https://brewster.kahle.org

• https://ianmilligan.ca

• https://medium.com/@giovannidamiola

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Articles We Like About Internet Archiving

• https://items.ssrc.org/parameters/on-the-importance-of-web-archiving/

• https://theconversation.com/your-internet-data-is-rotting-115891

• https://www.bbc.com/future/story/20190401-why-theres-so-little-left-of-the-early-internet

• https://sr.ithaka.org/publications/the-state-of-digital-preservation-in-2018/

• https://gizmodo.com/delete-never-the-digital-hoarders-who-collect-tumblrs-1832900423

• https://siarchives.si.edu/blog/we-are-not-alone-progress-digital-preservation-community

• https://www.gwern.net/Archiving-URLs

• http://brewster.kahle.org/2015/08/11/locking-the-web-open-a-call-for-a-distributed-web-2/

• https://lwn.net/Articles/766374/

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Web_archiving_initiatives

• https://medium.com/@giovannidamiola/making-the-internet-archives-full-text-search-faster-30fb11574ea9

• https://xkcd.com/1909/

• https://samsaffron.com/archive/2012/06/07/testing-3-million-hyperlinks-lessons-learned#comment-31366

• https://www.gwern.net/docs/linkrot/2011-muflax-backup.pdf

• https://thoughtstreams.io/higgins/permalinking-vs-transience/

• http://ait.blog.archive.org/files/2014/04/archiveit_life_cycle_model.pdf

• https://blog.archive.org/2016/05/26/web-archiving-with-national-libraries/

• https://blog.archive.org/2014/10/28/building-libraries-together/

• https://ianmilligan.ca/2018/03/27/ethics-and-the-archived-web-presentation-the-ethics-of-studying-geocities/

• https://ianmilligan.ca/2018/05/22/new-article-if-these-crawls-could-talk-studying-and-documenting-web-archives-provenance/

• https://ws-dl.blogspot.com/2019/02/2019-02-08-google-is-being-shuttered.html

If any of these links are dead, you can find an archived version on https://archive.sweeting.me or https://web.archive.org.

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ArchiveBox-Specific Posts, Tutorials, and Guides

Beware: many of these may be outdated, as ArchiveBox has frequent updates and continual improvement.

• "Install ArchiveBox on SaltBox.dev" https://docs.saltbox.dev/sandbox/apps/archivebox/#3-setup

• "ArchiveBox is an open-source self-hosted web archiving system for the web and the desktop" https://medevel.com/archivebox/

• "Install ArchiveBox on a One-Click Docker Application" https://www.vultr.com/docs/install-archivebox-on-a-oneclick-docker-application/

• "ArchiveBox, una solución para crear nuestro propio Archive.org en miniatura y personalizado" https://www.genbeta.com/herramientas/archivebox-solucion-para-crear-nuestro-propio-archive-org-miniatura-personalizado

• "网页存档的开源工具ArchiveBox，可以将网页文字、图片、媒体文件等都保存下来，供日后查看。基于Python的开源项目，可搭建私人的网络存档服务。" https://www.bilibili.com/s/video/BV1ib4y1X7SL

• "Персональный интернет-архив без боли" https://habr.com/ru/company/vdsina/blog/550180/

• "ArchiveBox, una solución para crear nuestro propio Archive.org en miniatura y personalizado" https://www.genbeta.com/herramientas/archivebox-solucion-para-crear-nuestro-propio-archive-org-miniatura-personalizado

• "Preserve the Internet With ArchiveBox" https://www.cyberpunks.com/preserve-the-internet-with-archivebox/

• "Сам себе архивариус. Изучаем возможности ArchiveBox" https://xakep.ru/2021/02/01/archivebox/

• "使用存档盒制作自己的Internet存档" http://www.diglog.com/story/1045192.html

• "How to Make Your Own Internet Archive With ArchiveBox" https://nixintel.info/osint-tools/make-your-own-internet-archive-with-archive-box/

• "Mit ArchiveBox Webseiten auf der Festplatte archivieren" https://www.linux-community.de/ausgaben/linuxuser/2020/12/mit-archivebox-webseiten-auf-der-festplatte-archivieren/

• "ArchiveBox：开源的WEB存档" https://zhen.bushini.de/14738.html / https://www.1fishsauce.com/?p=4206

• "两个基于爬虫的项目: Kiwix & ArchiveBox" https://blog.csdn.net/JackLang/article/details/108328791

• "如何创建自己的私人自托管即时阅读应用程序" https://www.pcpc.me/tech/self-hosted-read-later-app

• "How to install ArchiveBox to preserve websites you care about" https://blog.sleeplessbeastie.eu/2019/06/19/how-to-install-archivebox-to-preserve-websites-you-care-about/

• "How to remotely archive websites using ArchiveBox" https://blog.sleeplessbeastie.eu/2019/06/26/how-to-remotely-archive-websites-using-archivebox/

• "How to Create Your Own Private Self-Hosted Read-It-Later App" https://www.makeuseof.com/tag/self-hosted-read-later-app/

• "How to use CutyCapt inside ArchiveBox" https://blog.sleeplessbeastie.eu/2019/07/10/how-to-use-cutycapt-inside-archivebox/

• "Automate ArchiveBox with Google Spreadsheet to Backup your internet" https://manfred.life/archivebox

• "【デモ有♪】ConoHaのArchiveBoxアプリケーションを使ってみたよ" https://qiita.com/CloudRemix/items/691caf91efa3ef19a7ad

• "WEB-ARCHIV TEIL 8: WALLABAG UND ARCHIVEBOX" http://webermartin.net/blog/web-archiv-teil-8-wallabag-und-archivebox/

• https://metaxyntax.neocities.org/entries/7.html

ArchiveBox Discussions in News & Social Media

• Aggregators: ProductHunt, AlternativeTo, SaaSHub, Logiciels, SteemHunt, Recurse Center: The Joy of Computing, GitHub Changelog, Dev.To Ultra List, O'Reilly 4 Short Links, JaxEnter

• Blog Posts & Podcasts: Korben.info, Defining Desktop Linux Podcast #296 (0:55:00), Binärgewitter Podcast #221, Schrankmonster.de, La Ferme Du Web

• Hacker News threads and comments: #1, #2, #3, #4, and many more...

• Reddit r/DataHoarder, r/SelfHosted, etc. posts and comments: #1, #2, #3, #4, #5 , #6, #7, #8, and many more...

• Twitter: Python Trending, PyCoder's Weekly, Python Hub, Smashing Magazine, and many more...

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Communities

Most Active Communities

• The Internet Archive (Archive.org) (USA)

• International Internet Preservation Consortium (IIPC) (International)

• The Archive Team, URL Team, r/ArchiveTeam (International)

• Rhizome.org The digital preservation group that works on Conifer by Rhizome formerly Webrecorder.io (USA)

• Webrecorder (formerly known¹ as Webrecorder.io) is a company led by Ilya Kreymer, that researches and develops web archiving tools, widely used by the community.

• Old Dominion University: Web Science and Digital Libraries (WS-DL @ ODU) (Virginia, USA)

• r/DataHoarder, r/Archivists, r/DHExchange (International)

• The Eye Non-profit working on content archival and long-term preservation (Europe)

• Digital Preservation Coalition & their Software Tool Registry (COPTR) (UK & Wales)

• Archives Unleashed Project and UAP GitHub (Canada)

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Web Archiving Communities

Follow these technological and organizational archiving hubs for the latest archiving news.

• Canadian Web Archiving Coalition (Canada)

• Web Archives for Historical Research Group (Canada)

• Smithsonian Institution Archives: Digital Curation (Washington D.C., USA)

• National Digital Stewardship Alliance (NDSA) (USA)

• Digital Library Federation (DLF) (USA)

• Council on Library and Information Resources (CLIR) (USA)

• Digital Curation Centre (DCC) (UK)

• ArchiveMatica & their Community Wiki (International)

• Professional Development Institutes for Digital Preservation (POWRR) (USA)

• Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) (USA)

• Stanford Libraries Web Archiving (USA)

• Society of American Archivists: Electronic Records (SAA) (USA)

• BitCurator Consortium (BCC) (USA)

• Ethics & Archiving the Web Conference (Rhizome) (USA)

• Archivists Round Table of NYC (USA)

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General Archiving Foundations, Coalitions, Initiatives, and Institutes

Find your local archiving group in the list and see how you can contribute!

• Community Archives and Heritage Group (UK & Ireland)

• Open Preservation Foundation (OPF) (UK & Europe)

• Software Preservation Network (International)

• ITHAKA, Portico, JSTOR, ARTSTOR, S+R (USA)

• Archives and Records Association (UK & Ireland)

• Arkivrådet AAS (Sweden)

• Asociación Española de Archiveros, Bibliotecarios, Museologos y Documentalistas (ANABAD) (Spain)

• Associação dos Arquivistas Brasileiros (AAB) (Brazil)

• Associação Portuguesa de Bibliotecários, Archivistas e Documentalistas (BAD) (Portugal)

• Association des archivistes français (AAF) (France)

• Associazione Nazionale Archivistica Italiana (ANAI) (Italy)

• Australian Society of Archivists Inc. (Australia)

• International Council on Archives (ICA)

• International Records Management Trust (IRMT)

• Irish Society for Archives (Ireland)

• Koninklijke Vereniging van Archivarissen in Nederland (Netherlands)

• State Archives Administration of the People's Republic of China (China)

• Academy of Certified Archivists

• Archivists and Librarians in the History of the Health Sciences

• Archivists for Congregations of Women Religious

• Archivists of Religious Institutions

• Association of Catholic Diocesan Archivists

• Association of Moving Image Archivists

• Council of State Archivists

• National Association of Government Archives and Records Administrators

• National Episcopal Historians and Archivists

• Archival Education and Research Institute

• Archives Leadership Institute

• Georgia Archives Institute

• Modern Archives Institute

• Western Archives Institute

• Association des archivistes du Québec

• Association of Canadian Archivists

• Canadian Council of Archives/Conseil canadien des archives

• Archives Association of British Columbia

• Archives Association of Ontario

• Archives Council of Prince Edward Island

• Archives Society of Alberta

• Association for Manitoba Archives

• Association of Newfoundland and Labrador Archives

• Council of Nova Scotia Archives

• Réseau des services d'archives du Québec

• Saskatchewan Council for Archives and Archivists

You can find more organizations and initiatives on these other lists:

• Wikipedia.org List of Web Archiving Initiatives

• SAA List of USA & Canada Based Archiving Organizations

• SAA List of International Archiving Organizations

• Digital Preservation Coalition's Member List

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ArchiveBox Community Resources

ArchiveBox Chat Rooms

• Official ArchiveBox Zulip Chat Server

• Unofficial ArchiveBox Matrix chat room (old)

• GitHub Discussions

ArchiveBox on Social Media

• Twitter: @ArchiveBoxApp

• LinkedIn: ArchiveBox

• YouTube: @ArchiveBoxApp

• Reddit: r/ArchiveBox

• Alternative.to

• ReposHub

ArchiveBox on Package Distribution Platforms

• Python PyPI

• Docker Hub

• ArchLinux AUR

• Ubuntu Launchpad PPA

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