Web Archiving

There are several option for users with limited finances or technical expertise to web archive personal or other small collections. Below are a few options that are manageable by individuals without institutional or organizational support.

Wayback Machine

• Developed and maintained by the Internet Archive
• https://archive.org/web/
• The Wayback Machine can be as simple as a user adding a link to be archived. This is only available for sites that allows crawlers
• There is also API availability for user to build their own tools.

Webrecorder

• Open-source tools manufactured by webrecorder
• https://webrecorder.net/
• Webrecorder provides a suite of open source projects and tools to capture interactive websites and replay them at a later time as accurately as possible.
• Tools for capture: archiveweb.page, Chrome extension to archive pages; Tools for replay: replayweb.page, Browser-based web archive replay system
• Collaboration with them is encouraged! Email at info@webrecorder.net and/or join the forum at https://forum.webrecorder.net/

WARCreate

• Developed by Chrome
• http://warcreate.com/
• WARCreate is a Google Chrome extensions that can be downloaded from the Chrome Web Store.
• This extension does not come with a player and the Web Archiving Integration Layer (WAIL) is the recommended player for WARCs generated by the extension.