About Webrecorder

About Us

Our Team

The Webrecorder team has been developing open source web archiving tools for over 10 years. We strive to make web archiving tools accessible to anyone who needs to collect and preserve content that is meaningful to them.

Our goal has remained steadfast since we started in 2014: To make quality, open source web archiving tools accessible to all!

Contributors

Webrecorder tools are built by our core product and development team. We also incorporate and greatly appreciate open source contributions from the web archiving community.

2024

Browsertrix — our SaaS archiving platform — is released to the general public, opening signups to everyone!
2022

Webrecorder receives a grant from the Filecoin Foundation to develop decentralized web archiving tools, including Browsertrix.
2021

Work begins on Browsertrix and Browsertrix Crawler, our next generation crawling systems.

International Internet Preservation Consortium (IIPC) recommends adoption of pywb, Webrecorder’s flexible, production-grade web archive replay system, to its member organizations.
2020

ReplayWeb.page and ArchiveWeb.page are released, providing high-fidelity capture and replay directly in the browser without need for web servers.

Webrecorder becomes its own organization, while original Webrecorder.io becomes Conifer and remains at Rhizome.
2017

Webrecorder Player is released — Webrecorder’s first desktop application.
2015

Rhizome is awarded the first grant from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation for the development of Webrecorder.
2014

Ilya Kreymer begins development on Webrecorder.io, the first browser-based interactive web archiving tool, as well as the pywb web archive replay system.

Support our sustainability

Webrecorder is committed to releasing quality free and open source software that supports web archiving for all. We strive to build tools that empower individuals creating decentralized archives and aid global cultural institutions in their digital preservation endeavors.

If our goals align with yours, please support the long-term sustainability of Webrecorder tools.

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