DIY 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.
DIY Tools
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.