How to archive a website that's shutting down soon

How to archive a website that's shutting down soon(blog.marcua.net)

38 points by marcua 4 years ago | 6 comments

Why not use grab-site?

https://github.com/ArchiveTeam/grab-site

marcua 4 years ago | |

This is great! It looks like you can even grab WARCs using `wget`: https://golangexample.com/put-a-web-archive-warc-on-an-s3-bu...

I'm curious: what sort of fidelity have you seen in `grab-site`'s rewritten static asset URLs? Having to fix URLs that weren't properly rewritten ended up taking me the most time.

toomuchtodo 4 years ago | | |

grab-site doesn't rewrite URLs, it captures the entire request and response of each http request for an asset and stores as-is for archival purposes. The quality of any mutations or transformations performed will be governed by the tooling used to consume the generated WARCs.

More detail on the WARC format can be found below:

https://www.loc.gov/preservation/digital/formats/fdd/fdd0002...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_ARChive

http://fileformats.archiveteam.org/wiki/WARC

weekay 4 years ago |

Easiest and simple self hosted option is archive box https://archivebox.io/

marcua 4 years ago | |

Thank you! I wish I had found this sooner to try it out. Similar question to the other one I asked on this thread: what sort of fidelity have you seen in `archivebox`'s rewritten static asset URLs? Having to fix URLs that weren't properly rewritten ended up taking me the most time.