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Webrecorder is an American technology company founded by Ilya Kreymer that builds open source web archiving tools and maintains the WACZ file format.
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In 2016 Rhizome was awarded a $600,000 USD multi-year grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation to fund and continue to operate Webrecorder.io, an open source website that allowed users to archive and replay archived webpages.[1] Lead by Ilya Kreymer and Dragan Espenschied, the project would build atop Kreymer's previous work as a consultant for Rhizome[2] and continue to use pywb for capture and playback of WARC files.[3]
In 2020 after four years of development, Rhizome and Kreymer announced that Webrecorder would split into its own commercial entity, with the archiving service being renamed to "Conifer".[4][5] Following the split, Kreymer would go on to release ArchiveWeb.page and ReplayWeb.page — applications that allow users to archive and replay archived webpages respectively, without the use of a central server to facilitate the capture or playback of archived material.[4][6]
In 2021, Webrecorder was awarded multiple grants from the Filecoin Foundation to work on design and standardization of browser-based web archive file formats and further development of Browsertrix, Webrecorder's cloud-based SaaS archiving platform.[7][8]
In 2024, Webrecorder enabled open signups for Browsertrix allowing anyone to create their own account and start archiving websites.[9]
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ArchiveWeb.page
ArchiveWeb.page is a browser extension and standalone desktop application that allows users to interactively create high-fidelity web archives as they browse the web similar to Rhizome's Conifer.[10] Because ArchiveWeb.page uses a full browser for archiving, it has been noted as being "more successful" than other non-browser-based archiving tools such as Heritrix at the cost of requiring manual operation during the capture process.[11]
ArchiveWeb.page supports exporting both WARC and WACZ files.
Browsertrix
Browsertrix is Webrecorder's SaaS web archiving suite that allows users to crawl websites using a browser-based crawler and share links to web archives.[12]
Browsertrix supports importing and exporting WACZ files.
ReplayWeb.page
ReplayWeb.page is Webrecorder's browser-based web archive viewer available as both a web application and standalone desktop application.[13]
ReplayWeb.page can view archived content within WARC, WACZ, and HAR files[14]
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