If you love a website, back it up

By the way, for disclosure: the tools I’m going to mention in this blog post are made by the company I work for, but that’s not because they’ll pay my salary (most of them are free!). I just happen to think these are the best tools there are for personal web archiving.

😎 Note:
I’ve started exploring the tools mentioned in the blog post. The free tools (Options 1 & 2) require manually browsing the site to be archived, and they both do the job. Option 3, which is more automated, involves a free, 7-day trial that turns into a monthly subscription at a price far too high for my blood, so I won't be exploring that option (I’m not fond of the subscription model for software, especially at such a high monthly cost). See "The Tools" section of this post below for more details.

All of the tools I’ll be showing off in this post use standard web archiving formats like WARC. You don’t have to worry about any of the technical details, but I’m telling you that because it means there are a lot of really great tools to do whatever you want with them...

Footnotes from article:

WARC: Most of the tools I’m mentioning also use the WACZ format, which packages up WARC files along with extra metadata.
technical details: For those who want a little extra technical detail, though: one of the things that makes WARC special is that it records complete information about requests and responses, including all headers. This gives WARC a much more complete view of the whole process of visiting a website, and makes it possible to archive even complicated sites with client-side JavaScript that make a ton of requests.

[ ⇦ @misty@digipres.club, author, The Future is Now ]

The Tools