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We're thrilled to announce the launch of our premier webarchiving platform Browsertrix! Archive websites & social media, curate collections and replay your webarchives for as little as $30 / month!
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Want to spend holidays browsing the web with classic browsers of the past? Missing IE 6? Worried about Flash?
Announcing a brand new - a system to browse web archives (and live sites too) using emulated browsers in your browser!
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What if you could share an archive of any web page securely on a peer-to-peer network? Soon you'll be able to! Excited to announce an experimental
@dat_project
integration for Webrecorder and Webrecorder Player
#DWebSummit
#webarchiving
#p2p
More info:
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We're excited to announce Autopilot, a new a set of features for capturing certain complex, interactive websites automatically!
More info in blog post by
@despens
Autopilot User Guide:
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We're extremely thrilled to share that Webrecorder has received a new two year, 1.3M open source dev grant from
@FilFoundation
!
More details on our blog:
This funding will help support development across our open source web archiving tools ecosystem
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Embeds (tweets, videos, etc...) are such a common part of modern web publishing. But embeds can disappear and change...
What if publishers could host 'archival embeds' and present both?
For
#WebArchiveWednesday
, we present a new experiment on our blog:
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We're happy to announce that the latest release of Webrecorder is out! Includes new curatorial features for organizing collections, a brand new React-based interface, and much more! Details at:
#webarchiving
@rhizome
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Want to easily archive complex websites on your own machine?
The new Webrecorder Desktop App is for you!
Includes Autopilot & new features such as Preview mode, Mobile emulation, and more!
Details:
Download Latest Release:
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Want to turn your browser into a high-fidelity web archive?
Announcing: , a new Chrome extension that can help you do just that!
Blog post with more details:
And a detailed user guide created by
@DaleLore
:
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The Webrecorder Project is once again an independent open source project, with a new home at:
Read about this and more news on the blog at:
Rhizome's hosted service is now at:
Follow
@RhizomeConifer
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Webrecorder Player Desktop App for OSX, Win & Linux released: Browse web archives in WARC, HAR, ARC formats offline!
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Have a DH project in need of archiving? We're looking for examples, especially those that are 'hard to archive' - with complex server backends, dynamic content, etc... for testing our new server encapsulation + web archiving approach!
#WebArchiveWednesday
Data journalists, digital archivists, and DH scholars: if you have an old dynamic web project that needs archiving or is about to go offline let us know! We might be able to help, and are looking for test cases and partners on the UX work
@webrecorder_io
@VickyRampin
@remram44
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Have web files/documents, in directories on disk, or even in ZIP files? Want to convert to a more durable format (WARC) and browse as a high-fidelity archive? No problem - Just WARCIT!
Introducing WARCIT, our new tool command-line tool to create WARCs:
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Thanks to work by
@edsu
, the
@bellingcat
auto-archiver created by
@SozinhoRamalho
now supports creating high-fidelity web archives (as WACZ files) using Browsertrix Crawler and integrated with google sheets!
More info and examples:
#WebArchiveWednesday
Open source research often relies on social posts that contain videos and images
But posts can be taken down by platforms or uploaders at any time. Bellingcat has created the Auto Archiver to help researchers quickly and easily archive online content.
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Very happy to announce that Lorena Ramírez-López (
@DaleLore
) joins Webrecorder as part-time Community Manager!
Lorena will help support the Webrecorder community and making web archiving more accessible to all!
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It's 2021, and but flash ain't dead yet!
now includes 5 versions of Flash (+ Shockwave) available in 9 different browser environments, including two new Linux browsers: Opera 12 and Firefox 10 running the latest Flash Player 32 under
@TinyCoreLinux
Want to spend holidays browsing the web with classic browsers of the past? Missing IE 6? Worried about Flash?
Announcing a brand new - a system to browse web archives (and live sites too) using emulated browsers in your browser!
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Webrecorder remains committed to empowering people to make/view their own web archives via quality open source tools and desktop apps.
Excited to Announce: - a static page/progressive web app/desktop app to explore web archives directly in your browser!
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Some big
#WebArchiveWednesday
news! We're excited to announce that Webrecorder has received a $100,000 open source devgrant from the
@FilFoundation
for design and standardization of browser-based web archiving workflows.
More details on our blog:
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We're released Webrecorder Player 1.6.4, with the MacOS and Windows versions of the app, now officially signed with
@rhizome
as the developer.
The apps should install more easily for most users without triggering unidentified developer warnings.
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Webrecorder Player 1.6.1 is ready for download at:
- Open any .warc (and .arc or .har) files by double-clicking to load them in the player.
- Fully up to date with
- Support for browsing low-fidelity wget 1.19.4+ WARCs too
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We're thrilled to announce a new collaboration with
@UKWebArchive
and
@anjacks0n
to enable them to try out pywb as the replay system for the
@UKWebArchive
#webarchiving
More details on our blog:
And the UK Web Archive Blog:
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Announcing pywb 2.0 release!
pywb () is the engine that powers Webrecorder, and a standalone web archiving replay & capture toolkit.
Find out more on our blog at:
Or, dive into the full docs at:
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Want to share a web archive but not sure where to start?
Here's our simple web archive hosting starter built with
@glitch
:
Remix (fork) this project, upload your WARC/WACZ file(s), and you have your own hosted web archive site!
#WebArchiveWednesday
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Want to learn what the Webrecorder project has been up to, or have any questions for team?
Mark your calendars for our first ever Webrecorder Community Call on Tuesday, January 29th 2019, 11am - 12pm EST.
More details coming soon!
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We're excited to share that our friends and long-time collaborators
@HarvardLIL
have upgraded
@permacc
to use as their default web archive replay system!
More details at:
and at:
#WebArchiveWednesday
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We're excited to announce our work on our latest effort:
Browsertrix Cloud will be an open-source, cloud-native high-fidelity browser-based automated crawling system!
Details on our blog:
Code:
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Did you know that
@waybackmachine
Save Page Now also supports downloading a WACZ file of pages created with the service?
@edsu
discusses this in a recent blog post
We're excited to see broader adoption of WACZ format for
#decentralized
#webarchiving
!
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Want to preserve Twitter the way it is today?
Use our extension + Autopilot to automatically archive exactly what you see in your browser, and have your own copy, forever!
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Need to archive public pages quickly in your browser & share w/ others?
Introducing Express:
no ext req'd, each page archives as it loads & should work in all major browsers.
Then, download WACZ, or share with anyone using
@IPFS
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makes it easy to embed web archives anywhere!
Here's a demo of a static page created in
@glitch
with an an embedded web archive:
(Archive created by
@Rhizome
)
#webarchivewednesday
#webarchiving
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Automated Web Archiving + Browser Emulation + Server Preservation:
We're happy to announce our prototype to automatically archive any
@anvcscalar
site!
More info:
Demo:
Code:
The latest digital publication from
@stanfordpress
is already web archived thanks to the amazing
@webrecorder_io
team.
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Announcing an experiment in listing the known web archives in a human and machine readable format:
#webarchiving
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1.1.0 PWA & Desktop App is now out, including a new UI with sidebar for page & url search. Also featuring major
#a11y
improvements contributed by
@RebeccaCremona
The desktop app can be downloaded from:
#WebArchiveWednesday
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Although we couldn't attend
#iipcWAC19
this year, we're excited to officially introduce Browsertrix, our new browser-based automated crawling system!
(Thanks to
@PatPot
for the logo!)
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Announcing the Webrecorder API, including support for WASAPI for WARC downloads:
Full API reference:
WASAPI client (thanks to Lauren Ko &
@UNT_Libraries
)
More on the WASAPI spec:
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Automated high-fidelity web archiving + Scalar preservation prototype in action:
Read more on our blog at:
#ipres2018
#webarchiving
#digipres
Full Code:
Hosted Prototype:
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Webrecorder is urgently looking for a Community Support Engineer, to help support archiving efforts like the SUCHO project.
A great opportunity for anyone wanting to empower independent web archiving efforts.
No previous web archiving experience needed!
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Browsertrix includes a sophisticated behavior and crawling system (created by
@johnaberlin
) integrated replay + full text search, browser profiles and more!
A quick demo: start a crawl, watch it go, test replay, and do full text search in under 3 mins!
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Announcing a new, fast python WARC/ARC reading and writing library, spun-off from pywb and Webrecorder
#webarchiving
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Web archives the new (or old) way, browse through time with virtual Mosaic, Netscape, Firefox, etc.. in your browser
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We're excited to announce the release of pywb 2.7, our original python web archive replay toolkit, now featuring a brand new Vue UI.
Thanks to everyone who's helped test this release along the way!
More on details on our blog:
#WebArchiveWednesday
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We're happy to share that you can now support Webrecorder via our OpenCollective page:
And, we're excited to welcome
@Rhizome
as our first institutional sponsor on OpenCollective!!
More details at:
#WebArchiveWednesday
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Released: support for extraction+patching from other archives. Fix old recordings, improve existing archives & more!
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Announcing the launch of a new Discourse forum for all things Webrecorder (and web archiving in general):
Feedback and suggestions welcome!
#webarchiving
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allows seamless embedding of web archives into other pages. It now supports 'archive receipts' - a new UI widget showing provenance + cryptographic signature data to improve trust
More on our blog:
(Belated
#WebArchiveWednesday
)
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Webrecorder Desktop 2.0.3 is now out, and addresses issues related to loading Twitter.
Twitter should now load correctly and the Twitter Autopilot behavior has also been updated:
Please report any issues on the forum at:
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For
#WorldDigitalPreservationDay
, we wanted to share about our work on a new web archiving spec:
WACZ (Web Archive Collection/Crawl Zipped)
Why create a new format? Sure, web archives have WARCs for raw data, but WARCs are not enough to make web archives usable to people.
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We are excited and grateful to receive major support from
@MellonFdn
to continue developing Webrecorder!
🚨🚨🚨 Rhizome has been awarded a $1 million grant by the
@MellonFdn
for further development of
@Webrecorder_io
:
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Imagine a high-fidelity web archive, loadable in your browser, with built-in full text search, and accessible to all!
Here's a demo of searching a complete archive of
@mattdelmont
's Black Quotidian to learn more about Shirley Chisholm
More on the blog:
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@caseorganic
@Filecoin
@internetarchive
For anyone is interested in
#decentralized
#webarchives
, we have a working system using IPFS, developed independently and fully open source, accessible to all! Happy to share more on how it works!
Here's an IPFS-shared web archive of a tweet + youtube video about creating and sharing web archives on IPFS, including a live demo of archiving Twitter using
(works best in
@brave
with native IPFS)
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A brand new version of Webrecorder is out
#webarchiving
for all! More info on features:
Internet users: we are pleased to announce the public release of
@webrecorder_io
! Sign up for a free 5GB account at
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What if digital publications were published alongside high-fidelity, distributable web archives?
@ParametricPress
is leading the way in making each issue of its interactive digital magazine available as a downloadable web archive at time of publication!
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Concerned about Flash going away? Use any Flash web archives on the desktop with new Webrecorder Player App 1.1.0 Beta, now for download at: …
Features: New UI, Bookmark Sidebar, and improved fidelity (full HTTP/S proxy mode browser), Flash
#DTMH2017
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Want to help us make and improve our open source web archiving tools, use by individuals, communities and institutions on a daily basis?
Webrecorder is looking for:
- Community Support Engineer
- Backend Developer(s)
See: for more details!
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We're very excited to hold the first Webrecorder Community Call next Tuesday, Jan 29th, 11am-12pm EST.
The call will be via Zoom app at this link:
More info on our blog:
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Indeed! We are really thrilled to announce that
@johnaberlin
will be joining the Webrecorder project as a Senior Backend Developer and bringing his
#webarchiving
expertise from
@WebSciDL
to the team here at
@rhizome
!
buried at the bottom of
@johnaberlin
's excellent MS thesis summary is this exciting news: after this weekend's graduation he will be a back end developer for
@webrecorder_io
joining
@IlyaKreymer
,
@despens
@AnnaPerricci
@michael_connor
et al. at
@rhizome
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Have an idea for a project using Webrecorder? Apply for a Rhizome microgrant!
This year our Microgrants program is also funding archival narrative projects utilizing
@webrecorder_io
. More info:
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Huge thanks to
@atomotic
@PatPot
@m4rk3r
@LozanaRossenova
for helping launch this new Webrecorder project!
Webrecorder Player Desktop App for OSX, Win & Linux released: Browse web archives in WARC, HAR, ARC formats offline!
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Excited to collaborate with
@NetPreserve
to support members' transition to Webrecorder pywb!
Read more:
And thanks to
@UKWebArchive
,
@ArquivoWeb_PT
and
@NLAPandora
for being early adopters!
#webarchiving
#WebArchiveWednesday
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Want to empower users to create their own web archives? Join us! Work with team that built
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The most important twitter poll yet - we need your support - every vote counts!
(we're honored to be part of the the
#DPWorldCup
, thank you
@dpc_chat
)
World Cup of Digital Preservation Group 16
Webrecorder -
DCC Lifecycle -
World Digi Pres Day -
Jpylyzer -
About
#DPWorldCup
-
#digipres
#DPC20years
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Announcing the release of WACZ Format 1.0 and the release of py-wacz 0.2.0 (), the reference implementation for WACZ format creation and validation.
Thanks to
@__emmadickson
for leading the work on py-wacz!
More details at:
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Want to help us make the best open-source web archiving tools to empower anyone to create, portable high-fidelity web archives?
We are looking for a senior dev to focus on our web crawling tools, including R&D to push the limits of web archiving!
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When extracting & replaying content from other archives, Webrecorder & desktop WR Player (v1.0.5) will show dropdown with archive provenance
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Introducing
http://t.co/NbvJ4E1alC
browser-based archiving automation! demo @
http://t.co/aK87m8u49Y
project supported by
@hypothes_is
grant
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Want to archive complex social media or pages with infinite scroll directly in your browser, but without all the tedium?
The new Autopilot automated behavior system for should make your life easier!
More on the blog
#webarchiving
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An early, pre-alpha version of now being tested by the volunteers of the project, incl. watching crawls in real-time!
Initial plan was to have this ready in a few months, but sometimes, can't afford to wait..
#WebArchiveWednesday
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Reminder: Rhizome is awarding funds for Webrecorder-based archival narrative projects. Apply by August 14!
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In preparation for
#iipcWAC21
, announcing the pywb-remote-browser system, allowing users to run older browsers (Chrome 84) with full Flash connected to pywb collections:
The system was created with R&D contributions from the
@thenfb
#WebArchiveWednesday
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Help us make web archiving simpler and more accessible for all! We're hiring a Senior Front-End Developer!
@rhizome
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We're still looking for additional help to improve our state-of-the-art open source web crawling toolset!
If you're excited about digital preservation/web archiving, and building open source tools to make an impact, feel free to reach out!
Want to help us make the best open-source web archiving tools to empower anyone to create, portable high-fidelity web archives?
We are looking for a senior dev to focus on our web crawling tools, including R&D to push the limits of web archiving!
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Really excellent publication from
@kstapelfeldt
et al in: comparing approaches for preserving DS / DH projects using variety of web archiving tools, including and !
#WebArchiveWednesday
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Some organizational news: Very excited to announce that
@__emmadickson
has joined the Webrecorder project as a part-time generalist developer!
#WebArchiveWednesday
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A quick tutorial from
@michael_connor
to download & extract high fidelity Gothamist content using
@internetarchive
and
@webrecorder_io
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We are also happy to welcome Aarati Akkapeddi (), who has just joined the Webrecorder team as our Summer Front-End Developer Fellow. Aarati has just helped set up our new Webrecorder quick start guide, now available at:
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Want to keep up with the Webrecorder project?
We've started a new project blog for updates that don't fit in a tweet
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Want to hear about all the things Webrecorder is working on, ask questions and share use cases?
Announcing our first monthly community call!
Save the date for:
January 19th, 2021
9am PST / 12pm EST / 17:00 GMT
We hope to to make these a monthly event!
More details soon!
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Webrecorder is working hard to make web archiving more resilient, simpler, and more accessible to all, but we need help!
Interested in contributing to a growing open-source tool ecosystem and pushing the limits of web archiving?
More Details:
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Did we mention Webrecorder is fully open source? Feel free to try it out latest dev version from
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Want to play a key role in a growing ecosystem of cutting-edge open source web archiving tools, and make web archiving easier and more accessible to all?
Webrecorder is now hiring a generalist developer on a contract basis:
Apply by September 15th!
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We are really thrilled to announce the Camille G. Lawrence
@CamilleGLaw
, founder of
@BLKBARCHIVES
, will be joining us as Webrecorder's first ever Program Manager!
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Archiving the web is not just saving static web pages. Archives created with Webrecorder tools can include highly interactive 3D spaces!
Shown here using the app, these archives can also be embedded directly in any existing web site or repository system
I’ll be speaking about why I used
@webrecorder_io
to archive an immersive website built by
@Amnesty
with
@ForensicArchi
, which features 3D-modelled architectural spaces + ambient audio, and how this will offer researchers a different ‘point-of-view’.
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Thanks for sharing your workflows! can produce highest fidelity of Instagram archives, which can then be placed directly into existing institutional repositories, accessible directly using
#WebArchiveWednesday
A recent collaboration among
@stanfordpress
, Webrecorder, &
@DigitalLib
has enabled websites captured using Webrecorder to be stored in the SDR. This new capability enables us to create new workflow providing access to Instagram sites.
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Here's a video of our March community call, where we talked about the
#SUCHO
project! Includes live demos of crawling for SUCHO and discussion with
@quinnanya
and
@storytracer
on our ongoing collaboration!
#WebArchiveWednesday
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What else can Webrecorder Autopilot help with?
With a single click, Autopilot archives a SlideShare deck or all decks for a user!
More info on autopilot in our blog post:
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Happy to announce the latest release of Browsertrix Crawler 0.4.1 with some exciting new features!
The crawler is our one-docker-container high-fidelity crawling system!
For all the details, see the updated readme at:
(
#WebArchiveWednesday
+ 1)
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We are also excited to announce that we are partnering with
@NetPreserve
to develop this system in a collaborative way!
IIPC will work to deploy the system on their own with the help of Webrecorder!
More details on the collaboration at:
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Here's our
#IIPCWAC21
presentation on keeping Flash accessible in web archives, in collaboration with
@thenfb
#WebArchiveWednesday
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In other news, we've launched an updated version of our site, thanks to the work of UX designer
@Walskaar
and
@__emmadickson
We hope this update makes it easier to learn about our key tools and what we're working on
More details:
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Yahoo Groups are going away. Announcing a new Autopilot behavior to capture high-fidelity, representative samples of Yahoo Groups online.
More info and other ways to save Yahoo Groups in a
#WebArchiveWednesday
blog post from
@annaperricci
and
@despens
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Introducing browse the archived web with 10+ browsers old and new
🔙🔙🔙🔙🔙🔙
Late
#CyberMonday
, a new tool to see cyberspace and art by
@JanRobertLeegte
, the old-fashioned way
🔙🔙🔙🔙🔙🔙
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Want to help us make Webrecorder better and more scalable?
We're hiring a backend-end developer
@rhizome
Apply by January 16th, 2018!
Also, the home page gets a visual update, take a look!
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We're presenting about Webrecorder and upcoming Webrecorder Player features today at 4pm
#DTMH2017
Day's off to a good start with keynote. Excited to be talking about
@webrecorder_io
,
#webarchiving
/ saving news published online & outreach today at Dodging the Memory Hole (4pm)
#dtmh2017
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Excited to officially announce Browsertrix Crawler, an extensible browser-based crawler in a single Docker container:
Developed in collaboration with
@KiwixOffline
for their crawling system.
More details:
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Webrecorder has developed numerous open-source tools over the years. To push the boundaries of high-fidelity web archiving and develop the best tools for our users, its sometimes necessary to deprecate older tools in favor of new ones.
More details:
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We're excited to announce the Webrecorder Supporter program to help us support free services and open source tools with a variety of donation options.
Check out the announcement and our new supporter site for more details:
Webrecorder was built to empower new voices in web archiving. Five years into its development, and the powerful open-source components that comprise it, offer users of all kinds the opportunity to collect and share their web.
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