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Webrecorder.io
is a rapidly developing community project maintained by a non-profit arts organization.
Becoming a supporter or donor helps us offset our operational costs, keeping Webrecorder a sustainable project.
Webrecorder.io provides:
- Free, easy to use, robust tools
- Service with no ads or exploitation of user data
- Platform that is quickly evolving & fully open source
- 5GB of storage for organizing and sharing web collections to all users at no charge
Support Us with a Monthly or Annual Membership
Where Your Money Goes
People that Fuel the Project:
The passionate professionals who create, support and improve Webrecorder must be sustained, and this costs approximately $600,000/year. We offer services for the public good at no charge and our open source code is made freely available.
Necessary Infrastructure:
About 3% of monthly expenditures for Webrecorder go to cover hosting and computing costs. Webrecorder does not rely on the business model used by of many ‘free’ services such as being ad-supported or selling users’ data.
Webrecorder is a project of Rhizome, a registered 501(c)(3) non-profit organization. Your donations are tax-deductible.
$20
Supporter Benefits
- 40GB of Storage
- Option to add more space at $5/month per 20GB.
- No network quota
$200
/year
Supporter Benefits
- 40GB of Storage
- Option to add more space at $50/year per 20GB.
- No network quota
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Frequently asked questions
- You know the saying “if the service is free you are the product”? Is that the case with Webrecorder?
- It’s an apt saying, but it does not apply to Webrecorder since we don’t monetize your data or run ads on our site. Webrecorder is a project for the public good made possible with support from foundations, government, partners, and individual supporters. For more about Webrecorder and privacy, please see our terms & policies page.
- Why can’t Webrecorder operate as a completely free service?
- Though our open source code is made freely available the staffing to create, support and improve Webrecorder costs approximately $600,000/year. About 3% of monthly expenditures for Webrecorder go to cover hosting and computing costs. Webrecorder does not rely on the business model used by of many ‘free’ services such as being ad-supported or selling users' data.
- Can I make a one-time donation rather than committing to be a supporter who contributes monthly or annually? Are donations tax deductible?
- Yes, donations are very welcome and tax deductible. Only supporters, however, are eligible for benefits such as expanded storage space and network quotas being removed from their account.
- Can I contribute to Webrecorder in other ways, such as by fixing issues on GitHub or contributing improvements?
- Yes! All Webrecorder components and associated tools are on our GitHub page. To learn more you can read this main README document. If there's something you'd like to work on please let us know by opening an issue on GitHub in the appropriate repository, or contact us via support@webrecorder.io. We can offer Supporter benefits for certain contributions. You can also find us on our Gitter channel, a space where you can ask questions.
Webrecorder Open Source Components
Listed below are the most popular components created by the Webrecorder project. For a full list of software, visit the Webrecorder organization on GitHub.
- Webrecorder
- Webrecorder is the easy to use platform that makes high-fidelity web archiving available to all web users. It unifies all Webrecorder components and integrates with lots of other web archiving tools.
- Webrecorder Player
- A 100% offline desktop application that allows to browse Web archives on Windows, Mac, and Linux. Releases available on github. Supports browsing any collection created in Webrecorder as well as any other HAR or WARC files.
- Python Web Archive Toolkit (pywb)
- pywb is the core toolkit that provides high fidelity web capture and access functionality. It can be used standalone Python application to create a web archives, host a ‘wayback machine’ access site, provide proxy services, and more.
- Browsertrix
- A modern, Docker-based framework for running web crawls with remote browsers. Browsertrix can automatically execute behaviors such as scrolling and clicking, and take over sessions manually configured with cookies for the most complete and precise captures.
- Remote Browsers
- Remote browsers are current and legacy versions of real browsers running in isolated containers and can be remote controlled by a user or another software. The shepherd framework is the foundation of oldweb.today, which lets users browse public web archives with the fitting periodical software, ranging from old Netscape to today’s Firefox and Chrome. Webrecorder also uses remote browsers for capturing technically complex websites, or ones that use Flash.
- Warcit
- Warcit is a flexible command line tool to create web archives from locally available files. It can be used by site owners to quickly create a web archive of their own holdings, or for complex restoration projects.
- Warcio
- Warcio is a modern, high performance python library for streaming WARC records, the ISO standard format for web archives. It is the foundation for reading and writing WARC files in all other Webrecorder components, and can be used to create new tools that offer novel ways for handling WARC files of any size.