Introducing Public Collections in Browsertrix
At Webrecorder, we’re always working to improve Browsertrix, our high-fidelity web archiving service. With our latest release (1.14), we’re excited to introduce major improvements to our collections feature, introducing the Public Collections Gallery, a new way to personalize, curate, and share your very own web archives with the world!
Collections provide a way to dynamically combine and group multiple individual crawls and uploads into a contextual, unified archive replay experience.
With this release, you can now curate and showcase collections on a public gallery page for your organization, customizing thumbnails, titles, descriptions, and more. You can also choose to make collections fully downloadable, and allow embedding of collections in other websites using ReplayWeb.page.
The public collections gallery is available to all users of Browsertrix, and we’re excited to get your feedback on this feature!
US Government Web Archive
We previously shared our work on archiving federal US government websites in collaboration with others (end-of-term crawling).
We are now excited to share our first batch of public collections, available in our US Gov Web Archive!
As we add more US government collections to this archive, they will appear at this URL — check back for more updates!
Of course, we also continue to support unlisted collections, only viewable to those with a specific collection URL, as well as fully private collections, available only to logged-in users (the default option).
Browsertrix now also includes a private collections gallery, available to all members of your archiving organization.
Start Using Public Collections Today
Using Browsertrix already? Check out our new walkthrough Enabling Public Collections Gallery in the Browsertrix docs for detailed steps and additional videos on how to enable public collections for your organization.
Not yet using Browsertrix? You can sign-up for a free trial today and test out this feature for yourself!
If you have feedback, questions, or more ideas on how to make Browsertrix even better for you, drop us a line at info@webrecorder.net or join the conversation on Bluesky, Mastodon, and X.com.
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