Web Archiving Services

There are many tools available to help you do your own web archiving. We have listed a few below. Contact us at digitize@ucalgary.ca about adding your WARC files to our Web Archive Collections.

For more information on national and international web archiving efforts see:

• Canadian Web Archiving Coalition http://www.carl-abrc.ca/advancing-research/digital-preservation/cwac/
• International Internet Preservation Consortium http://netpreserve.org/

When doing any web archiving we recommend:

• seeking permission from the site owner/copyright holder
• determining if the site contains 3rd party materials under copyright and getting appropriate permission to capture those materials
• following Terms of Service and understanding any applicable Privacy or Copyright Policies

Archiving individual web pages

Wayback Machine (Internet Archive Save Page Now or Browser extension...)

• Single pages
• Data saved and archived with Internet Archive
• Archived content is public

WARCreate (Google Chrome Extension)

• Single pages
• WARC is saved locally

Archiving web sites

Webrecorder Desktop App (https://webrecorder.net/)

• Open-source
• Standalone desktop app (developed as a modification of the Webrecorder (now Conifer) hosted service)
• Create and replay web archives
• Data stored locally

Conifer (https://conifer.rhizome.org/)

• Free online account
• Data saved and archived with Rhizome Inc.
• Private and public options

Heritrix (https://github.com/internetarchive/heritrix3)

• Open-source
• Requires a Linux distribution
• Data stored locally