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Introducing GovArchive.us & Mirroring Entire Sites with Web Archives

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Introducing GovArchive.us and tooling to mirror web sites using web archives.

By Ilya Kreymer
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Introducing Public Collections in Browsertrix

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Now you can curate, personalize, and share all your your crawls in one place.

By Webrecorder Team
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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
A screenshot of the crawler proxy server dropdown menu in the Browsertrix crawl workflow editor

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
A screenshot of the archived item list dropdown menu with a new option titled "Download Item" selected

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

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

Announcing pywb 2.6.0 release

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After several betas and months of development, I’m excited to announce the release of pywb 2.6!

By Ilya Kreymer

Autopilot: Testable Automated Behaviors for ArchiveWeb.page and Browsertrix

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Web archiving can be complex and often tedious work, especially when trying to archive dynamic, infinitely complex content such as social media. A key goal of Webrecorder tools is to make web archiving simpler, and we've taken an important step with latest update to our tools. Over the last week, the Webrecorder team has been quietly testing our new automated, in-page behavior system, sometimes also known as Autopilot!

By Ilya Kreymer