Web archiving tools are overwhelmingly only available in English, and while Webrecorder tools are no exception to this, we want to change that. To further our mission of making web archiving more accessible for all, we have started the process of translating Browsertrix, our premier crawling service, into other languages, including Spanish, French, Portuguese, and German.

To achieve this, we’ve integrated support for the popular translation tool Weblate, which provides a friendly UI for entering and editing translations.

We’d love your help getting Browsertrix translated into more languages! Join our Weblate project to help out.

Setting Your Preferred Language and Formatting Options

In your Account Settings, you’ll see a Language section where you can set your preferred language, as well as how you’d like values such as dates, durations, and numbers to be formatted. The Use browser language settings for formatting numbers and dates setting will let you override your selected language with your browser settings, which might be more familiar to you.

Contributions and Development

Thanks to community contributions, the Spanish translation of Browsertrix UI is over 50% complete — immense thanks to Weblate user Kamborio, who made 628 contributions in one day!

For users deploying Browsertrix on their own infrastructure, we have documentation on how to add new languages locally, if you’d like to test out a local instance with a new language.

We also welcome requests for more languages! If you’d like to see Browsertrix in your language, please submit a request on GitHub.

To see all of the changes in this update, check out the release on GitHub.

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