InterPlanetary Wayback (ipwb) - Web Archive (WARC) indexing and replay using 

OpenWayback - The open source project aimed to develop Wayback Machine, the key software used by web archives worldwide to play back archived websites in the user's browser. 

PyWb - A Python (2 and 3) implementation of web archival replay tools, sometimes also known as 'Wayback Machine'. 

Reconstructive - Reconstructive is a ServiceWorker module for client-side reconstruction of composite mementos by rerouting resource requests to corresponding archived copies (JavaScript).

ReplayWeb.Page - A browser-based, fully client-side replay engine for both local and remote WARC files.

warc2html - Converts WARC files to static HTML suitable for browsing offline or rehosting.

@WebSciDL - ODU Web Science and Digital Libraries Research Group.

ArchiveSpark - An Apache Spark framework (not only) for Web Archives that enables easy data processing, extraction as well as derivation. 

Archives Unleashed Notebooks - Notebooks for working with web archives with the Archives Unleashed Toolkit, and derivatives generated by the Archives Unleashed Toolkit. 

Archives Unleashed Toolkit - Archives Unleashed Toolkit (AUT) is an open-source platform for analyzing web archives with Apache Spark. 

Tweet Archvies Unleashed Toolkit - An open-source toolkit for analyzing line-oriented JSON Twitter archives with Apache Spark. 

ArchiveTools - Collection of tools to extract and interact with WARC files (Python).

har2warc - Convert HTTP Archive (HAR) -&gt; Web Archive (WARC) format (Python).

httpreserve.info - Service to return the status of a web page or save it to the Internet Archive. Returns JSON via browser or command line via CURL using GET (Golang Package). 

HTTPreserve Workbench - Tool and API to describe the status of a web page encoded in a simple JSON output describing current status, and earliest and latest links on wayback.org. Save a web page to the Internet Archive. Audit lists of URIs and output a CSV with the data described above (Golang). 

httrack2warc - Convert HTTrack archives to WARC format (Java).

MementoMap - A Tool to Summarize Web Archive Holdings (Python). 

MemGator - A Memento Aggregator CLI and Server (Golang). 

OutbackCDX - RocksDB-based capture index (CDX) server supporting incremental updates and compression. Can be used as backend for OpenWayback, PyWb and 

py-wasapi-client - Command line application to download crawls from WASAPI (Python). 

The Archive Browser - The Archive Browser is a program that lets you browse the contents of archives, as well as extract them. It will let you open files from inside archives, and lets you preview them using Quick Look. WARC is supported (macOS only, Proprietary app).

The Unarchiver - Program to extract the contents of many archive formats, inclusive of WARC, to a file system. Free variant of The Archive Browser (macOS only, Proprietary app).

tikalinkextract - Extract hyperlinks as a seed for web archiving from folders of document types that can be parsed by Apache Tika (Golang, Apache Tika Server). 

wasapi-downloader - Java command line application to download crawls from WASAPI. 

WarcPartitioner - Partition (W)ARC Files by MIME Type and Year. 

webarchive-indexing - Tools for bulk indexing of WARC/ARC files on Hadoop, EMR or local file system.

wikiteam - Tools for downloading and preserving wikis. 

22120 - A non-WARC-based tool which hooks into the Chrome browser and archives everything you browse making it available for offline replay. 

ArchiveBox - A tool which maintains an additive archive from RSS feeds, bookmarks, and links using wget, Chrome headless, and other methods (formerly 

ArchiveWeb.Page - A plugin for Chrome and other Chromium based browsers that lets you interactively archive web pages, replay them, and export them as WARC data. Also available as an Electron based desktop application.

Browsertrix Crawler - A Chrome based high-fidelity crawling system, designed to run a complex, customizable browser-based crawl in a single Docker container.

Brozzler - A distributed web crawler (爬虫) that uses a real browser (Chrome or Chromium) to fetch pages and embedded urls and to extract links. 

Cairn - A npm package and CLI tool for saving webpages. 

Chronicler - Web browser with record and replay functionality. 

crocoite - Crawl websites using headless Google Chrome/Chromium and save resources, static DOM snapshot and page screenshots to WARC files. 

F(b)arc - A commandline tool and Python library for archiving data from 

freeze-dry - JavaScript library to turn page into static, self-contained HTML document; useful for browser extensions. 

grab-site - The archivist's web crawler: WARC output, dashboard for all crawls, dynamic ignore patterns. 

Heritrix - An open source, extensible, web-scale, archival quality web crawler. 

html2warc - A simple script to convert offline data into a single WARC file. 

HTTrack - An open source website copying utility. 

monolith - CLI tool to save a web page as a single HTML file. 

Obelisk - Go package and CLI tool for saving web page as single HTML file. 

SingleFile - Browser extension for Firefox/Chrome and CLI tool to save a faithful copy of a complete page as a single HTML file. 

SiteStory - A transactional archive that selectively captures and stores transactions that take place between a web client (browser) and a web server. 

Social Feed Manager - Open source software that enables users to create social media collections from Twitter, Tumblr, Flickr, and Sina Weibo public APIs. 

StormCrawler - A collection of resources for building low-latency, scalable web crawlers on Apache Storm. 

twarc - A command line tool and Python library for archiving Twitter JSON data. 

WAIL - A graphical user interface (GUI) atop multiple web archiving tools intended to be used as an easy way for anyone to preserve and replay web pages; 

Warcprox - WARC-writing MITM HTTP/S proxy. 

Warcworker - An open source, dockerized, queued, high fidelity web archiver based on Squidwarc with a simple web GUI. 

Wayback - A toolkit for snapshot webpage to Internet Archive, archive.today, IPFS and beyond. 

Web2Warc - An easy-to-use and highly customizable crawler that enables anyone to create their own little Web archives (WARC/CDX). 

Web Curator Tool - Open-source workflow management for selective web archiving. 

WebMemex - Browser extension for Firefox and Chrome which lets you archive web pages you visit. 

Webrecorder - Create high-fidelity, interactive recordings of any web site you browse. 

Wget - An open source file retrieval utility that of 

Wpull - A Wget-compatible (or remake/clone/replacement/alternative) web downloader and crawler. 

Chrome Check My Links - Browser extension: a link checker with more options.

Chrome link checker - Browser extension: basic link checker.

Chrome link gopher - Browser extension: link harvester on a page.

Chrome Open Multiple URLs - Browser extension: opens multiple URLs and also extracts URLs from text.

Chrome Revolver - Browser extension: switches between browser tabs.

FlameShot - Screen capture and annotation on Ubuntu.

PlayOnLinux - For running Xenu and Notepad++ on Ubuntu.

PlayOnMac - For running Xenu and Notepad++ on macOS.

Windows Snipping Tool - Windows built-in for partial screen capture and annotation. On macOS you can use Command + Shift + 4 (keyboard shortcut for taking partial screen capture).

WineBottler - For running Xenu and Notepad++ on macOS.

FastWARC - A high-performance WARC parsing library (Python).

HadoopConcatGz - A Splitable Hadoop InputFormat for Concatenated GZIP Files (and 

jwarc - Reading and write WARC files with a typesafe API (Java).

Jwat - Libraries and tools for reading/writing/validating WARC/ARC/GZIP files (Java). 

node-warc - Parse WARC files or create WARC files using either 

Unwarcit - Command line interface to unzip WARC and WACZ files (Python).

Warcat - Tool and library for handling Web ARChive (WARC) files (Python). 

warcio - Streaming WARC/ARC library for fast web archive IO (Python).

warctools - Library to work with ARC and WARC files (Python).

webarchive - Golang readers for ARC and WARC webarchive formats (Golang).

Web Archiving Roundtable - Unofficial blog of the Web Archiving Roundtable of the 

The Web as History - An open-source book that provides a conceptual overview to web archiving research, as well as several case studies.

WS-DL Blog - Web Science and Digital Libraries Research Group blogs about various Web archining related topics, scholarly work, and academic trip reports.

DSHR's Blog - David Rosenthal regularly reviews and summarizes work done in the Digital Preservation field.

Wikipedia's List of Web Archiving Initiatives

Glossary of Archive-It and Web Archiving Terms

The Web Archiving Lifecycle Model - The Web Archiving Lifecycle Model is an attempt to incorporate the technological and programmatic arms of the web archiving into a framework that will be relevant to any organization seeking to archive content from the web. Archive-It, the web archiving service from the Internet Archive, developed the model based on its work with memory institutions around the world.

Training materials: module for beginners (8 sessions)

playback - A toolkit for searching archived webpages from 

SecurityTrails - Web based archive for WHOIS and DNS records. REST API available free of charge. 

Tempas v1 - Temporal web archive search based on 

Tempas v2 - Temporal web archive search based on links and anchor texts extracted from the German web from 1996 to 2013 (results are not limited to German pages, e.g., 

webarchive-discovery - WARC and ARC full-text indexing and discovery tools, with a number of associated tools capable of using the index shown below. 

Shine - A prototype web archives exploration UI, developed with researchers as part of the 

SolrWayback - A backend Java and frontend VUE JS project with freetext search and a build in playback engine. Require Warc files has been index with the Warc-Indexer. The web application also has a wide range of data visualization tools and data export tools that can be used on the whole webarchive. 

Warclight - A Project Blacklight based Rails engine that supports the discovery of web archives held in the WARC and ARC formats. 

Wasp - A fully functional prototype of a personal 

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