Tools & Software / Utilities

• duckdb_warc (⭐7) - DuckDB extension to query WARC files. (In Development)

Training/Documentation / Introductions to Web Archiving Concepts

• Wikipedia's List of Web Archiving Initiatives

• Glossary of Archive-It and Web Archiving Terms

• The Web Archiving Lifecycle Model - An attempt to incorporate the technological and programmatic arms of the web archiving into a framework that will be relevant to any organization seeking to archive content from the web. Archive-It, the web archiving service from the Internet Archive, developed the model based on its work with memory institutions around the world.

• Retrieving and Archiving Information from Websites by Wael Eskandar and Brad Murray

Training/Documentation / Training Materials

• UNT Web Archiving Course (⭐24)

• Continuing Education to Advance Web Archiving (CEDWARC)

• A Whirlwind Tour of Common Crawl's Datasets using Python (⭐45)

• A Whirlwind Tour of Common Crawl's Datasets as a Python notebook (⭐4)

• A Whirlwind Tour of Common Crawl's Datasets using Java (⭐3)

Training/Documentation / The WARC Standard

• The warc-specifications - A community HTML version of the official specification and hub for new proposals.

• Offical ISO 28500 WARC specification homepage

Training/Documentation / For Researchers using Web Archives

• Archives Unleashed Toolkit documentation

• Tutorial for Humanities researchers about how to explore Arquivo.pt

Tools & Software / Utilities

• bagnabit2warc (⭐1) - Convert a bag-nabit (⭐40) dataset stored in a ZIP into a full-content WARC.

Tools & Software / Quality Assurance

• Chrome Check My Links - Browser extension: a link checker with more options.

• Chrome link checker - Browser extension: basic link checker.

• Chrome link gopher - Browser extension: link harvester on a page.

• Chrome Open Multiple URLs - Browser extension: opens multiple URLs and also extracts URLs from text.

• Chrome Revolver - Browser extension: switches between browser tabs.

Public Data / Hosted, Closed Source

• Common Crawl files - WARCs, CDX files, parquet url index, parquet host index, etc.

• Common Crawl CDX API - Search Common Crawl's CDX URL index.

• End of Term Archive - WARCs, CDX files, parquet url index.

• Webrecorder US GovArchive - High-fidelity replay.

• UK Government Web Archive - Main page for the UKGWA.

Tools & Software / Utilities

• duckdb-web-archive-cdx (⭐22) - DuckDB extension to query the Internet Archive and CommonCrawl CDX APIs directly from SQL. (In Development)

Tools & Software / WARC I/O Libraries

• warc (⭐61) - A Rust library for reading and writing WARC files. (Stable)

Community Resources / Discord

• Common Crawl Foundation

Community Resources / Twitter

• @commoncrawl - Official Common Crawl Foundation handle.

Tools & Software / Acquisition

• ArchiveBox (⭐28k) - A tool which maintains an additive archive from RSS feeds, bookmarks, and links using wget, Chrome headless, and other methods (formerly Bookmark Archiver). (In Development)

• crocoite (⭐45) - Crawl websites using headless Google Chrome/Chromium and save resources, static DOM snapshot and page screenshots to WARC files. (In Development)

• DiskerNet (⭐3.9k) - A non-WARC-based tool which hooks into the Chrome browser and archives everything you browse making it available for offline replay. (In Development)

• twarc (⭐1.4k) - A command line tool and Python library for archiving Twitter JSON data. (Stable)

• Wpull (⭐613) - A Wget-compatible (or remake/clone/replacement/alternative) web downloader and crawler. (Stable)

Tools & Software / Search & Discovery

• Mink (⭐58) - A Google Chrome extension for querying Memento aggregators while browsing and integrating live-archived web navigation. (Stable)

Tools & Software / Utilities

• warcbench (⭐22) - A tool for exploring, analyzing, transforming, recombining, and extracting data from WARC (Web ARChive) files.

Tools & Software / Quality Assurance

• FlameShot (⭐31k) - Screen capture and annotation on Ubuntu.

Community Resources / Other Awesome Lists

• Web Archiving Community (⭐28k)

Tools & Software / Search & Discovery

• Shine (⭐43) - A prototype web archives exploration UI, developed with researchers as part of the Big UK Domain Data for the Arts and Humanities project. (Stable)

• SolrWayback (⭐146) - A backend Java and frontend VUE JS project with freetext search and a build in playback engine. Require Warc files has been index with the Warc-Indexer. The web application also has a wide range of data visualization tools and data export tools that can be used on the whole webarchive. SolrWayback 4 Bundle release (⭐146) contains all the software and dependencies in an out-of-the box solution that is easy to install.

• Warclight (⭐50) - A Project Blacklight based Rails engine that supports the discovery of web archives held in the WARC and ARC formats. (In Development)

• Wasp (⭐28) - A fully functional prototype of a personal web archive and search system. (In Development)

• Other possible options for builting a front-end are listed on in the webarchive-discovery wiki, here (⭐133).

Tools & Software / Acquisition

• Community Archive - Open Twitter Database and API with tools and resources for building on archived Twitter data.

Tools & Software / Search & Discovery

• hyphe (⭐385) - A webcrawler built for research uses with a graphical user interface in order to build web corpuses made of lists of web actors and maps of links between them. (Stable)

• PANDORÆ (⭐16) - A desktop research software to be plugged on a Solr endpoint to query, retrieve, normalize and visually explore web archives. (Stable)

Tools & Software / Utilities

• httpreserve.info - Service to return the status of a web page or save it to the Internet Archive. HTTPreserve includes disambiguation of well-known short link services. It returns JSON via the browser or command line via CURL using GET. Describes web sites using earliest and latest dates in the Internet Archive and demonstrates the construction of Robust Links in its output using that range. (Golang). (Stable)

Resources for Web Publishers / For Researchers using Web Archives

• Definition of Web Archivability - This describes the ease with which web content can be preserved. (Archived version from the Stanford Libraries)

Tools & Software / Utilities

• The Unarchiver - Program to extract the contents of many archive formats, inclusive of WARC, to a file system. Free variant of The Archive Browser (macOS only, Proprietary app).

Tools & Software / WARC I/O Libraries

• Warcat-rs (⭐34) - Command-line tool and Rust library for handling Web ARChive (WARC) files. (In Development)

Tools & Software / Acquisition

• ArchiveWeb.Page - A plugin for Chrome and other Chromium based browsers that lets you interactively archive web pages, replay them, and export them as WARC & WACZ files. Also available as an Electron based desktop application.

Tools & Software / Replay

• ReplayWeb.page - A browser-based, fully client-side replay engine for both local and remote WARC & WACZ files. Also available as an Electron based desktop application. (Stable)

Community Resources / Blogs and Scholarship

• Common Crawl Foundation Blog - rss

Community Resources / Slack

• Common Crawl Foundation Partners (ask greg zat commoncrawl zot org for an invite)

Web Archiving Service Providers / Self-hostable, Open Source

• Browsertrix - From Webrecorder, source available at https://github.com/webrecorder/browsertrix (⭐458).

Tools & Software / Acquisition

• SiteStory - A transactional archive that selectively captures and stores transactions that take place between a web client (browser) and a web server. (Stable)

Tools & Software / WARC I/O Libraries

• Jwat (⭐4) - Libraries for reading/writing/validating WARC/ARC/GZIP files (Java). (Stable)

• Jwat-Tools (⭐5) - Tools for reading/writing/validating WARC/ARC/GZIP files (Java). (Stable)

Tools & Software / Utilities

• warc-safe (⭐18) - Automatic detection of viruses and NSFW content in WARC files.

Tools & Software / Replay

• PYWB (⭐1.7k) - A Python 3 implementation of web archival replay tools, sometimes also known as 'Wayback Machine'. (Stable)

Web Archiving Service Providers / Self-hostable, Open Source

• Conifer - From Rhizome, source available at https://github.com/Rhizome-Conifer.

Web Archiving Service Providers / Hosted, Closed Source

• Archive-It - From the Internet Archive.

• Arkiwera

• Hanzo

• MirrorWeb

• PageFreezer

• Smarsh

Tools & Software / Utilities

• Internet Archive Library (⭐1.9k) - A command line tool and Python library for interacting directly with archive.org. (Python). (Stable)

Tools & Software / Utilities

• warcdb (⭐407) - A command line utility (Python) for importing WARC files into a SQLite database. (Stable)

Tools & Software / Utilities

• HTTPreserve linkstat (⭐10) - Command line implementation of httpreserve.info to describe the status of a web page. Can be easily scripted and provides JSON output to enable querying through tools like JQ. HTTPreserve Linkstat describes current status, and earliest and latest links on archive.org. (Golang). (Stable)

Training/Documentation / Training Materials

• IIPC and DPC Training materials: module for beginners (8 sessions)

Tools & Software / Analysis

• Common Crawl Columnar Index - SQL-queryable index, with CDX info plus language classification. (Stable)

• Common Crawl Web Graph - A host or domain-level graph of the web, with ranking information. (Stable)

• Common Crawl Jupyter notebooks (⭐67) - A collection of notebooks using Common Crawl's various datasets. (Stable)

Tools & Software / Utilities

• cdx-toolkit - Library and CLI to consult cdx indexes and create WARC extractions of subsets. Abstracts away Common Crawl's unusual crawl structure. (Stable)

Tools & Software / Analysis

• Web Data Commons - Structured data extracted from Common Crawl. (Stable)

Community Resources / Mailing Lists

• Common Crawl

Tools & Software / Utilities

• Go Get Crawl (⭐184) - Extract web archive data using Wayback Machine and Common Crawl. (Stable)

Tools & Software / Acquisition

• crau (⭐64) - A lightweight command-line tool for archiving the Web and playing archives: you just need a list of URLs. The name "crau" stems from the Brazilian pronounciation of "crawl". (Stable)

Tools & Software / Acquisition

• Scoop (⭐209) - High-fidelity, browser-based, single-page web archiving library and CLI for witnessing the web. (Stable)

Tools & Software / Utilities

• warcdedupe - WARC deduplication tool (and WARC library) written in Rust. (In Development)

Tools & Software / Utilities

• Warchaeology - A collection of tools for inspecting, manipulating, deduplicating and validating WARC-files. (Stable)

• warcrefs (⭐10) - Web archive deduplication tools. (Stable)

Community Resources / Blogs and Scholarship

• WS-DL Blog - Web Science and Digital Libraries Research Group blogs about various Web archiving related topics, scholarly work, and academic trip reports.

Tools & Software / Acquisition

• Auto Archiver (⭐1.1k) - Python script to automatically archive social media posts, videos, and images from a Google Sheets document. Read the article about Auto Archiver on bellingcat.com.

Training/Documentation / For Researchers using Web Archives

• GLAM Workbench: Web Archives - See also this related blog post on 'Asking questions with web archives'.

Training/Documentation / Introductions to Web Archiving Concepts

• What is a web archive? - A video from the UK Web Archive YouTube Channel

Tools & Software / WARC I/O Libraries

• Sparkling (⭐17) - Internet Archive's Sparkling Data Processing Library. (Stable)

Tools & Software / Analysis

• Archives Research Compute Hub (⭐20) - Web application for distributed compute analysis of Archive-It web archive collections. (Stable)

Community Resources / Blogs and Scholarship

• The Web as History - An open-source book that provides a conceptual overview to web archiving research, as well as several case studies.

Tools & Software / Acquisition

• Waybackpy (⭐600) - Wayback Machine Save, CDX and availability API interface in Python and a command-line tool (Stable)

Tools & Software / WARC I/O Libraries

• Unwarcit (⭐13) - Command line interface to unzip WARC and WACZ files (Python).

Tools & Software / WARC I/O Libraries

• FastWARC (⭐144) - A high-performance WARC parsing library (Python).

Tools & Software / Replay

• warc2html (⭐59) - Converts WARC files to static HTML suitable for browsing offline or rehosting.

Tools & Software / Acquisition

• Wayback (⭐2.2k) - A toolkit for snapshot webpage to Internet Archive, archive.today, IPFS and beyond. (Stable)

Tools & Software / Utilities

• gowarcserver (⭐18) - BadgerDB (⭐16k)-based capture index (CDX) and WARC record server, used to index and serve WARC files (Go).

Tools & Software / Acquisition

• Web Curator Tool - Open-source workflow management for selective web archiving. (Stable)

Tools & Software / Curation

• Zotero Robust Links Extension - A Zotero extension that submits to and reads from web archives. Source on GitHub (⭐22). Supercedes leonkt/zotero-memento (⭐357).

Tools & Software / Acquisition

• WAIL (⭐400) - A graphical user interface (GUI) atop multiple web archiving tools intended to be used as an easy way for anyone to preserve and replay web pages; Python, Electron (⭐128). (Stable)

• Warcprox (⭐461) - WARC-writing MITM HTTP/S proxy. (Stable)

Tools & Software / Acquisition

• Browsertrix Crawler (⭐1.1k) - A Chromium based high-fidelity crawling system, designed to run a complex, customizable browser-based crawl in a single Docker container. (Stable)

• Brozzler (⭐813) - A distributed web crawler (爬虫) that uses a real browser (Chrome or Chromium) to fetch pages and embedded urls and to extract links. (Stable)

Community Resources / Twitter

• @WebSciDL - ODU Web Science and Digital Libraries Research Group.

Tools & Software / Search & Discovery

• playback (⭐13) - A toolkit for searching archived webpages from Internet Archive, archive.today, Memento and beyond. (In Development)

Tools & Software / Utilities

• httrack2warc (⭐35) - Convert HTTrack archives to WARC format (Java).

Tools & Software / Acquisition

• Cairn (⭐51) - A npm package and CLI tool for saving webpages. (Stable)

• Obelisk (⭐320) - Go package and CLI tool for saving web page as single HTML file. (Stable)

Community Resources / Mailing Lists

• OpenWayback

• WASAPI

Community Resources / Slack

• IIPC Slack - Ask @netpreserve for access.

Tools & Software / Replay

• OpenWayback (⭐525) - The open source project aimed to develop Wayback Machine, the key software used by web archives worldwide to play back archived websites in the user's browser. (Stable)

Community Resources / Blogs and Scholarship

• UK Web Archive Blog

Community Resources / Twitter

• #WebArchiveWednesday

Tools & Software / Acquisition

• Heritrix (⭐3.3k) - An open source, extensible, web-scale, archival quality web crawler. (Stable)
  • Heritrix Q&A (⭐3.3k) - A discussion forum for asking questions and getting answers about using Heritrix.
  • Heritrix Walkthrough (⭐10) (In Development)

• WebMemex - Browser extension for Firefox and Chrome which lets you archive web pages you visit. (In Development)

Community Resources / Other Awesome Lists

• Awesome Memento (⭐121)

• The WARC Ecosystem

• The Web Crawl section of COPTR

Tools & Software / Acquisition

• archivenow (⭐434) - A Python library to push web resources into on-demand web archives. (Stable)

• Chronicler (⭐92) - Web browser with record and replay functionality. (In Development)

• Crawl - A simple web crawler in Golang. (Stable)

• F(b)arc (⭐78) - A commandline tool and Python library for archiving data from Facebook using the Graph API. (Stable)

• freeze-dry (⭐305) - JavaScript library to turn page into static, self-contained HTML document; useful for browser extensions. (In Development)

• grab-site (⭐1.6k) - The archivist's web crawler: WARC output, dashboard for all crawls, dynamic ignore patterns. (Stable)

• html2warc (⭐24) - A simple script to convert offline data into a single WARC file. (Stable)

• HTTrack - An open source website copying utility. (Stable)

• monolith (⭐15k) - CLI tool to save a web page as a single HTML file. (Stable)

• SingleFile (⭐22k) - Browser extension for Firefox/Chrome and CLI tool to save a faithful copy of a complete page as a single HTML file. (Stable)

• Social Feed Manager - Open source software that enables users to create social media collections from Twitter, Tumblr, Flickr, and Sina Weibo public APIs. (Stable)

• Squidwarc (⭐178) - An open source, high-fidelity, page interacting archival crawler that uses Chrome or Chrome Headless directly. (In Development)

• StormCrawler - A collection of resources for building low-latency, scalable web crawlers on Apache Storm. (Stable)

• WARCreate - A Google Chrome extension for archiving an individual webpage or website to a WARC file. (Stable)

• Warcworker (⭐62) - An open source, dockerized, queued, high fidelity web archiver based on Squidwarc with a simple web GUI. (Stable)

• Web2Warc (⭐26) - An easy-to-use and highly customizable crawler that enables anyone to create their own little Web archives (WARC/CDX). (Stable)

• Wget - An open source file retrieval utility that of version 1.14 supports writing warcs. (Stable)

• Wget-lua (⭐24) - Wget with Lua extension. (Stable)

Tools & Software / Search & Discovery

• Tempas v1 - Temporal web archive search based on Delicious tags. (Stable)

• Tempas v2 - Temporal web archive search based on links and anchor texts extracted from the German web from 1996 to 2013 (results are not limited to German pages, e.g., Obama@2005-2009 in Tempas). (Stable)

Tools & Software / Utilities

• MementoMap (⭐12) - A Tool to Summarize Web Archive Holdings (Python). (In Development)

• MemGator (⭐80) - A Memento Aggregator CLI and Server (Golang). (Stable)

• node-cdxj (⭐2) - CDXJ (⭐15) file parser (Node.js). (Stable)

• OutbackCDX (⭐43) - RocksDB-based capture index (CDX) server supporting incremental updates and compression. Can be used as backend for OpenWayback, PyWb and Heritrix (⭐11). (Stable)

• py-wasapi-client (⭐16) - Command line application to download crawls from WASAPI (Python). (Stable)

• tikalinkextract (⭐11) - Extract hyperlinks as a seed for web archiving from folders of document types that can be parsed by Apache Tika (Golang, Apache Tika Server). (In Development)

• wasapi-downloader (⭐7) - Java command line application to download crawls from WASAPI. (Stable)

• WarcPartitioner (⭐1) - Partition (W)ARC Files by MIME Type and Year. (Stable)

• wikiteam (⭐859) - Tools for downloading and preserving wikis. (Stable)

Tools & Software / WARC I/O Libraries

• HadoopConcatGz (⭐9) - A Splitable Hadoop InputFormat for Concatenated GZIP Files (and *.warc.gz). (Stable)

• node-warc (⭐105) - Parse WARC files or create WARC files using either Electron or chrome-remote-interface (⭐4.6k) (Node.js). (Stable)

• Warcat (⭐166) - Tool and library for handling Web ARChive (WARC) files (Python). (Stable)

Tools & Software / Analysis

• ArchiveSpark (⭐162) - An Apache Spark framework (not only) for Web Archives that enables easy data processing, extraction as well as derivation. (Stable)

• Archives Unleashed Notebooks (⭐26) - Notebooks for working with web archives with the Archives Unleashed Toolkit, and derivatives generated by the Archives Unleashed Toolkit. (Stable)

• Archives Unleashed Toolkit (⭐158) - An open-source platform for analyzing web archives with Apache Spark. (Stable)

• Tweet Archvies Unleashed Toolkit (⭐10) - An open-source toolkit for analyzing line-oriented JSON Twitter archives with Apache Spark. (In Development)

Community Resources / Blogs and Scholarship

• DSHR's Blog - David Rosenthal regularly reviews and summarizes work done in the Digital Preservation field.

Community Resources / Blogs and Scholarship

• Web Archiving Roundtable - Unofficial blog of the Web Archiving Roundtable of the Society of American Archivists maintained by the members of the Web Archiving Roundtable.

Community Resources / Twitter

• @NetPreserve - Official IIPC handle.

• #WebArchiving

Tools & Software / Replay

• InterPlanetary Wayback (ipwb) (⭐655) - Web Archive (WARC) indexing and replay using IPFS.

Tools & Software / Replay

• Reconstructive - A Service Worker module for client-side reconstruction of composite mementos by rerouting resource requests to corresponding archived copies (JavaScript).

Tools & Software / Search & Discovery

• webarchive-discovery (⭐133) - WARC and ARC full-text indexing and discovery tools, with a number of associated tools capable of using the index shown below. (Stable)

Tools & Software / Utilities

• ArchiveTools (⭐81) - Collection of tools to extract and interact with WARC files (Python).

• har2warc (⭐55) - Convert HTTP Archive (HAR) -> Web Archive (WARC) format (Python).

Tools & Software / WARC I/O Libraries

• jwarc (⭐60) - Read and write WARC files with a type safe API (Java).

• warcio (⭐468) - Streaming WARC/ARC library for fast web archive IO (Python). (Stable)

• warctools (⭐176) - Library to work with ARC and WARC files (Python).

• webarchive (⭐20) - Golang readers for ARC and WARC webarchive formats (Golang).

Tools & Software / Quality Assurance

• PlayOnLinux - For running Xenu and Notepad++ on Ubuntu.

• PlayOnMac - For running Xenu and Notepad++ on macOS.

• Windows Snipping Tool - Windows built-in for partial screen capture and annotation. On macOS you can use Command + Shift + 4 (keyboard shortcut for taking partial screen capture).

• WineBottler - For running Xenu and Notepad++ on macOS.

• xDoTool (⭐3.8k) - Click automation on Ubuntu.

• Xenu - Desktop link checker for Windows.

Community Resources / Slack

• Archives Unleashed Slack - Fill out this request form for access to a researcher group of people working with web archives.

• Archivers Slack - Invite yourself to a multi-disciplinary effort for archiving projects run in affiliation with EDGI and Data Together.

Resources for Web Publishers / For Researchers using Web Archives

• The Archive Ready tool, for estimating how likely a web page will be archived successfully.

Tools & Software / Search & Discovery

• SecurityTrails - Web based archive for WHOIS and DNS records. REST API available free of charge.

Tools & Software / For Researchers using Web Archives

• Comparison of web archiving software (⭐100)

• Awesome Website Change Monitoring (⭐513)

Tools & Software / Utilities

• webarchive-indexing (⭐46) - Tools for bulk indexing of WARC/ARC files on Hadoop, EMR or local file system.

Community Resources / Blogs and Scholarship

• IIPC Blog

Community Resources / Mailing Lists

• IIPC