Webrecorder

Get more out of Browsertrix with crawl deduplication. Our crawler can now reference existing data as it runs, saving only new information to disk. We’re rolling it out to select users at first, let us know if you’d like to try it out early!

Learn more on our blog → https://webrecorder.net/blog/2026-04-09-deduplication/

Ever wanted to restore a taken down site from a web archive, with link navigation and references intact?
Our latest tooling make this simpler than ever!

Announcing govarchive.us - a dynamic, web archive-powered mirror of US government sites!

More details on our blog https://webrecorder.net/blog/2025-03-25-govarchive-us-and-mirroring-sites-with-web-archives/

Whether it's a DH project, a personal site, or even gov site that is going offline, all you need is a WACZ file created with any of our tools (Browsertrix.com, ArchiveWeb.page) and you can host a web archive-powered mirror of your own, for free!

To get started, check out:
https://github.com/webrecorder/web-archive-site-mirror

Browsertrix 1.18 is out, with support for large seed lists and a new email system so invites, password resets, and everything else is clearer, smoother, and prettier.

Also improvements to QA and a crawl login checking. More details on the blog!

https://webrecorder.net/blog/2025-08-11-browsertrix-1-18/

We’re committed to providing accessible, high-fidelity web archiving tools for all, especially in these times where organizations are facing funding and staffing challenges. Learn more about our full suite of tools in our recent blog post https://webrecorder.net/blog/2025-04-30-our-commitment-to-provide-accessible-tools/

New on the Webrecorder blog today is a post all about behaviors, which automate actions in the browser while crawling websites in Browsertrix.

This post by senior developer @bitarchivist@digipres.club introduces lots of exciting recent developments, including our new Autoclick behavior, first-class support for custom behaviors in Browsertrix, improved behavior documentation, and even a new easier way to create custom behaviors using Chrome's DevTools Recorder.

Check it out:

https://webrecorder.net/blog/2025-05-28-create-use-and-automate-actions-with-custom-behaviors-in-browsertrix/

New to web archiving (or want a refresher?) Want to archive stuff you care about but not sure where to start? Join us for a DIY web archiving workshop organized by @quinnanya@mstdn.social and @sucho@hcommons.social
Nov 25th, 1pm ET / 10am PT

More details: https://www.sucho.org/diy-archiving

What has the Webrecorder team been up to recently? A whole lot -- we've been a little too busy working on new features and improvements to have time to share, until now!

Here's latest blog post from
@bitarchivist@digipres.club covering last three Browsertrix releases:
https://webrecorder.net/blog/2025-12-18-browsertrix-1-21/

Thanks to the crawl performed by @SafeguardingResearch@fedihum.org, we now also have a mirror of covid.gov available at: https://covid.govarchive.us/
and hosted on Browsertrix at https://app.browsertrix.com/explore/usgov-archive/collections/covid-gov

@lavaeolus@fedihum.org@digipres.club

Up on the Webrecorder blog today: a post all about our latest Browsertrix release, 1.17.

This release was focused on two much-requested features: crawl pause/resume (with full replay and download support while paused) and crawling with only 1 or 2 browser windows.

Read more on our blog: https://webrecorder.net/blog/2025-07-23-browsertrix-1-17/

Want to dive deeper into web archiving? Check out our brand new Resources page which includes helpful guides, reference materials, presentations, and more! https://webrecorder.net/resources

Read more on our blog https://webrecorder.net/blog/2025-04-16-our-new-resources-page-for-web-archivists/ and tell us what else you’d like to see in this evolving hub

Our browser extension, ArchiveWeb.page has recently surpassed 20,000 users on the Chrome Web store:

https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/webrecorder-archivewebpag/fpeoodllldobpkbkabpblcfaogecpndd

That's 20k+ users creating their own high-fidelity, interactive web archives, right in their own browsers!

If you use and like https://archiveweb.page, leave us a review!

1. We have a new tool available right on the homepage that makes archiving what matters to you even easier! Enter a URL and browse the content you want to save. When you're done, hit Finish to download a WACZ of everything you visited. Check it out at https://create.webrecorder.net

NYC folks! Join us for a free, hands-on web archiving workshop
June 18th at 2PM EST, co-presented with The New School Archives!

This workshop will teach you how to use Browsertrix to create, curate, and share archives of online content! RSVP today, as space is limited: https://tinyurl.com/2fh5f5ae #WebArchives #Browsertrix

1. Miss the old website already? Fear not, it's been archived! We’ve embedded our site archives collected with Browsertrix on https://webrecorder.net/replaywebpage as a demo!

We’ve ALSO embedded the site archive on the 404 page and attempt to auto-navigate to the URL you were looking for. Almost everything has been redirected, but for anything we missed you should be able to find it in our archives :)

1. We now have product pages for all of our major tools. Interested in crawling with Browsertrix but not sure what it can do? Check out our updated product page for screenshots and details! https://webrecorder.net/browsertrix

For developers:

• QA has webhooks for analysis starting, finishing, and when crawls have been reviewed

For those of you on self hosted instances:

• Orgs can be deleted and their crawling capabilities can be disabled.