At Webrecorder, we’re dedicated to making web archiving easy and accessible for everyone. We believe that preserving digital history is essential — especially when it comes to vital records of public information, such as government websites. That’s why we’re proud to be one of the partners in the End of Term Web Archive (EOT) effort to capture these sites and keep them accessible, using our own high-fidelity web archiving service, Browsertrix.

Why the End of Term Web Archive Matters

Every four years, as the U.S. transitions into a new presidential term, government websites change — some are updated, some move, and others disappear entirely. The EOT partners work to safeguard this history, ensuring these sites are archived before they are lost. This effort has special urgency this time, given the extensive changes and deletion of federal government websites.

We have selected sites that were nominated by EOT crawl participants, submitted by users through their URL nomination tool, and contributed by other partners like The Common Crawl Foundation (CCF). Our focus has been on identifying and crawling high-risk federal content, such as environmental justice, healthcare and climate change, as well as other content vulnerable to removal like LGBTQIA+ sites.

How Webrecorder Ensures Accurate Archiving

Our tools at Webrecorder go beyond simple static archives — they are designed to preserve modern, interactive websites exactly as they appear, handling everything from dynamic content, maps, and dashboards, to complex graphics. With Browsertrix, we can capture everything in high-fidelity and ensure that archived government websites can be presented as accurately as possible, and be navigated as they originally existed. To achieve this, we set up a dedicated space to run crawls of the selected federal government websites.

Additionally, we are using our browser extension ArchiveWeb.page to augment high-fidelity crawls with manual archiving of difficult-to-archive and highly interactive content. Both manual and automated captures are then merged into collections hosted with our Browsertrix service.

What’s Next?

Webrecorder is honored to support the EOT effort in this large-scale preservation task, and we hope to share the results of our EOT crawling in the near future. All of the data will be publicly accessible as part of the EOT initiative on eotarchive.org, and if you have other pages to contribute, you can submit them here.

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