08/06/24
Browsertrix 1.11: Self Sign-Up, QA Improvements, Easier Downloading and new APIs
Emma Segal-Grossman, Henry Wilkinson, Tessa Walsh, Ilya Kreymer Self sign-up, easier downloads, and better crawl analysis stats!
Tired of visiting every single page in your web archive to ensure it was captured properly? So are we!
New branding, adblock for embeds, code refactor, and so much more!
Browsertrix has had some big improvements since our last blog post, lets take a look at some of the more recent ones!
It has been over two years since we've first introduced the WACZ format and I wanted to give a brief update on exciting new tools and integrations of WACZ, and also provide a glimpse of what's next in the evolution of the format.
We are excited to announce the release of pywb 2.7, with a new interactive banner and calendar interface!
The ReplayWeb.page viewer allows web archives to be embedded and displayed almost anywhere. It can be used as a single-page embed, or integrating into existing services and digital repository systems.
06/21/22
Webrecorder receives $1.3M open source development grant from the Filecoin Foundation
Ilya Kreymer I’m really thrilled to announce that Webrecorder has received a two-year, $1.3M open source development grant from the Filecoin Foundation! The grant will support our mission of developing quality open source web archiving tools for all!
I'm excited to announce that Webrecorder is working is embarking on perhaps our most ambitious development effort to date: the collaborative development of Browsertrix!
02/15/22
Launch of Open Collective and First Institutional Sponsor
Ilya Kreymer, Lorena Ramírez-López We are excited to announce the launch of Webrecorder's Open Collective page, and to welcome Rhizome as our first institutional sponsor through this platform
01/18/22
Improving browser-based web archiving with standards and design research
Cade Diehm, Ed Summers, Lorena Ramírez-López After 30 years, we see how much the web and its users have grown and evolved and web archiving - “the process of collecting portions of the World Wide Web” must adapt technology, tools and workflows to evolve with it to ensure the access and use of these preserved collections in an archival format.
10/13/21
Webrecorder receives a grant for Design and Standardization of Browser-Based Web Archives
Ilya Kreymer I'm excited to announce that Webrecorder has received a $100,000 Open Source Development Grant from the Filecoin Foundation to work on the standardization and design around the creation of browser-based web archives.
The Webrecorder site got a slight overhaul today, thanks to the work of UX Designer Thomas Walskaar and our generalist developer, Emma Dickson!
After several betas and months of development, I’m excited to announce the release of pywb 2.6!
Web archiving can be complex and often tedious work, especially when trying to archive dynamic, infitely complex content such as social media. A key goal of Webrecorder tools is to make web archiving simpler, and we've taken an important step with latest update to our tools. Over the last week, the Webrecorder team has been quietly testing our new automated, in-page behavior system, sometimes also known as Autopilot!
I wanted to more publicly announce Webrecorder's new automated browser-based crawling system: Browsertrix Crawler.
Over the years, the Webrecorder project has developed a lot of tools to make web archiving easier and accessible for all. To continue pushing the boundaries of high-fidelity web archiving and make tools that are easy to use and easy to maintain, it is sometimes necessary to discontinue older tools and focus on new ones.
The Webrecorder team has just finished a new release for WACZ and we’re delighted to share it with you!
01/18/21
Introducing ArchiveWeb.page - Local High-Fidelity Web Archiving directly in your browser
Ilya Kreymer I am excited to announce the launch of ArchiveWeb.page, a brand-new high-fidelity web archiving system available as a Chrome extension from the Chrome Web Store.
A new version of OldWeb.today [was released two weeks ago], switching to in-browser Javascript and WebAssembly emulation.
Just over five years ago, at the beginning of December 2015, I released the initial version of OldWeb.today, which demonstrated running emulated browsers connected to web archives.
Earlier this year, members of the IIPC, after an internal survey, recommended [the adoption of Webrecorder pywb as the primary replay system for their members' web archives. Webrecorder and IIPC established a multi-part collaboration to help with this transition and advance the development of pywb.
I'm excited to announce that Lorena Ramírez-López ([DaleLore.net](https://dalelore.net/)) has joined Webrecorder team as a part-time community manager!
As the web transitioned from static documents to interactive web applications, the challenge of archiving and preserving the web have only increased.
10/22/20
Web Archives as Digital Publications / Digital Publications as Web Archives
Ilya Kreymer, with Matthew Conlen Web archiving is often done after the fact -- a digital publication is designed, built, published and only then, archived for preservation.
I'm excited to announce that the Webrecorder team has expanded, and that Emma Dickson has joined Webrecorder as a part-time Generalist Developer!
08/12/20
Next Generation Web Archiving: Loading Complex Web Archives On-Demand in the Browser
Ilya Kreymer I'm excited to present an exciting new milestone for Webrecorder, the release of [six high-fidelity web archives of complex digital publications, accessible directly in any modern browser.
I'm excited to announce an exciting new collaboration between Webrecorder and [International Internet Preservation Consortium (IIPC), a group of national, university and regional libraries and archives involved in web archiving all over the world. The IIPC will recommend the adoption of Webrecorder pywb, the core Python web archiving toolset developed by Webrecorder as the 'go to' web archive replay system.
Today, I’m excited to announce a new phase for the Webrecorder Project, and several major releases/updates.
First, welcome to https://webrecorder.net/ - the new official site of the Webrecorder Project. Feel free to look around, and pardon the dust.
This site will contain all news and updates from Webrecorder, and the tools page is being updated to maintain a current index of all Webrecorder software.