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Browsertrix 1.13: The Translations and Internationalization Release

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¡Browsertrix para todos! With your help, we’re translating Browsertrix into new languages.

By Ilya Kreymer, Emma Segal-Grossman, Sua Yoo, and Clara Itzel
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Browsertrix 1.12: Proxies, Crawling Defaults, and Simplified Workflow Creation

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Proxies, crawling defaults, and simplified workflow creation!

By Tessa Walsh and Emma Segal-Grossman
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Browsertrix 1.11: Self Sign-Up, QA Improvements, Easier Downloading and new APIs

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Self sign-up, easier downloads, and better crawl analysis stats!

By Emma Segal-Grossman, Henry Wilkinson, Tessa Walsh, and Ilya Kreymer
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Browsertrix 1.10: Now with Assistive QA!

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Tired of visiting every single page in your web archive to ensure it was captured properly? So are we!

By Henry Wilkinson

ReplayWeb.page 2.0

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New branding, adblock for embeds, code refactor, and so much more!

By Henry Wilkinson and Ilya Kreymer

Browsertrix 1.9

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Browsertrix has had some big improvements since our last blog post, lets take a look at some of the more recent ones!

By Henry Wilkinson

An update on the WACZ format

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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.

By Ilya Kreymer

Announcing pywb 2.7.0 release

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We are excited to announce the release of pywb 2.7, with a new interactive banner and calendar interface!

By Tessa Walsh and Ilya Kreymer

Showing Provenance on ReplayWeb.page Embeds

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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.

By Ilya Kreymer and Henry Wilkinson

Perma.cc Upgrades to ReplayWeb.page

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Perma.cc is now using ReplayWeb.page for web archive playback.

By Ilya Kreymer

Webrecorder receives $1.3M open source development grant from the Filecoin Foundation

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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!

By Ilya Kreymer

Introducing: Browsertrix

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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!

By Ilya Kreymer

Launch of Open Collective and First Institutional Sponsor

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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

By Ilya Kreymer and Lorena Ramírez-López

Improving browser-based web archiving with standards and design research

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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.

By Cade Diehm, Ed Summers, and Lorena Ramírez-López

Web Archives on, of, and off the Web

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Last month Webrecorder announced a new effort to improve browser support for web archives. They are soliciting use cases for the WACZ format.

By Ed Summers