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DIY Web Archiving Zine

by marvinborner on 1/22/25, 11:57 PM with 7 comments

• by barrettondricka on 1/23/25, 1:08 AM

  Why does this feel more like an advertisement for Webrecorder[0] than an actual guide?

  Why add that privacy and big tech section at the end?

  Thanks for the list of features and buzzwords, but I couldn't figure out what all this tooling exactly does. Also, none of the links work. And Webrecorder doesn't have a Firefox extension, so don't even bother listing any of the "privacy" stuff.

  [0]: https://github.com/webrecorder/

• by agieocean on 1/23/25, 1:42 AM

  Archive.org has a cli which is useful if you're interested in the subject of the title: https://archive.org/developers/internetarchive/cli.html

• by memalign on 1/23/25, 3:30 AM

  Does anybody have tips or tools for archiving web apps? I find that Archivebox and archive.org often don’t capture a working web app, which is understandable because resources and scripts can be loaded dynamically. Maybe it’s not really solvable without manual work and auditing the web app’s code.

• by pabs3 on 1/23/25, 7:15 AM

  Also see ArchiveTeam:

  https://archiveteam.org/