browsertrix-crawler

(Disclaimer: I work at Webrecorder) Our automated crawler browsertrix-crawler (https://github.com/webrecorder/browsertrix-crawler) uses Puppeteer to run browsers that we archive in by loading pages, running behaviors such as auto-scroll, and then recording the request/response traffic in the WARC format (by default in Webrecorder tools, then packaged into a portable WACZ file: https://specs.webrecorder.net/wacz/1.1.1/). We have custom behaviors for some social media and video sites to make sure that content is appropriately captured. It is a bit of a cat-and-mouse game as we have to continue to update these behaviors as sites change, but for the most part it works pretty well. The crawler also has some job queuing functionality, supports multiple workers/browsers, and is highly configurable to set timeouts, page limits, etc. The trickier

I use browsertrix-crawler[0] for crawling and it does well on JS heavy sites since it uses a real browser to request pages. Even has options to load browser profiles so you can crawl while being authenticated on sites. [0] https://github.com/webrecorder/browsertrix-crawler

https://github.com/webrecorder/browsertrix-crawler works pretty well. Same tech as https://archiveweb.page/ but non-interactive

Not related to the OP topic or zim but I was looking into archiving my bookmarks and other content like documentation sites and wikis. I'll list some of the things I ended up using. ArchiveBox[1]: Pretty much a self-hosted wayback machine. It can save websites as plain html, screenshot, text, and some other formats. I have my bookmarks archived in it and have a bookmarklet to easily add new websites to it. If you use the docker-compose you can enable a full-text search backend for an easy search setup. WebRecorder[2]: A browser extension that creates WACZ archives directly in the browser capturing exactly what content you load. I use it on sites with annoying dynamic content that sites like wayback and ArchiveBox wouldn't be able to copy. ReplayWeb[3]: An interface to browse archive types like WARC, WACZ, and HAR. The interface is just li

I just learned about this organization, Saving Ukrainian Cultural Heritage Online (SUCHO): https://www.sucho.org/ They seem to be using various tools, like Browsertrix: https://github.com/webrecorder/browsertrix-crawler It sounds promising for interactive sites: > Support for custom browser behaviors, using Browsertix Behaviors including autoscroll, video autoplay and site-specific behaviors Browsertrix links to https://replayweb.page/ for a way to view an archived site.