Webrecorder

Get more out of Browsertrix with crawl deduplication. Our crawler can now reference existing data as it runs, saving only new information to disk. We’re rolling it out to select users at first, let us know if you’d like to try it out early!

Learn more on our blog → https://webrecorder.net/blog/2026-04-09-deduplication/

What has the Webrecorder team been up to recently? A whole lot -- we've been a little too busy working on new features and improvements to have time to share, until now!

Here's latest blog post from
@bitarchivist@digipres.club covering last three Browsertrix releases:
https://webrecorder.net/blog/2025-12-18-browsertrix-1-21/

Our browser extension, ArchiveWeb.page has recently surpassed 20,000 users on the Chrome Web store:

https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/webrecorder-archivewebpag/fpeoodllldobpkbkabpblcfaogecpndd

That's 20k+ users creating their own high-fidelity, interactive web archives, right in their own browsers!

If you use and like https://archiveweb.page, leave us a review!

Browsertrix 1.18 is out, with support for large seed lists and a new email system so invites, password resets, and everything else is clearer, smoother, and prettier.

Also improvements to QA and a crawl login checking. More details on the blog!

https://webrecorder.net/blog/2025-08-11-browsertrix-1-18/

Up on the Webrecorder blog today: a post all about our latest Browsertrix release, 1.17.

This release was focused on two much-requested features: crawl pause/resume (with full replay and download support while paused) and crawling with only 1 or 2 browser windows.

Read more on our blog: https://webrecorder.net/blog/2025-07-23-browsertrix-1-17/

New on the Webrecorder blog today is a post all about behaviors, which automate actions in the browser while crawling websites in Browsertrix.

This post by senior developer @bitarchivist@digipres.club introduces lots of exciting recent developments, including our new Autoclick behavior, first-class support for custom behaviors in Browsertrix, improved behavior documentation, and even a new easier way to create custom behaviors using Chrome's DevTools Recorder.

Check it out:

https://webrecorder.net/blog/2025-05-28-create-use-and-automate-actions-with-custom-behaviors-in-browsertrix/

NYC folks! Join us for a free, hands-on web archiving workshop
June 18th at 2PM EST, co-presented with The New School Archives!

This workshop will teach you how to use Browsertrix to create, curate, and share archives of online content! RSVP today, as space is limited: https://tinyurl.com/2fh5f5ae #WebArchives #Browsertrix

We’re committed to providing accessible, high-fidelity web archiving tools for all, especially in these times where organizations are facing funding and staffing challenges. Learn more about our full suite of tools in our recent blog post https://webrecorder.net/blog/2025-04-30-our-commitment-to-provide-accessible-tools/

Want to dive deeper into web archiving? Check out our brand new Resources page which includes helpful guides, reference materials, presentations, and more! https://webrecorder.net/resources

Read more on our blog https://webrecorder.net/blog/2025-04-16-our-new-resources-page-for-web-archivists/ and tell us what else you’d like to see in this evolving hub

Thanks to the crawl performed by @SafeguardingResearch@fedihum.org, we now also have a mirror of covid.gov available at: https://covid.govarchive.us/
and hosted on Browsertrix at https://app.browsertrix.com/explore/usgov-archive/collections/covid-gov

@lavaeolus@fedihum.org@digipres.club

Whether it's a DH project, a personal site, or even gov site that is going offline, all you need is a WACZ file created with any of our tools (Browsertrix.com, ArchiveWeb.page) and you can host a web archive-powered mirror of your own, for free!

To get started, check out:
https://github.com/webrecorder/web-archive-site-mirror

New to web archiving (or want a refresher?) Want to archive stuff you care about but not sure where to start? Join us for a DIY web archiving workshop organized by @quinnanya@mstdn.social and @sucho@hcommons.social
Nov 25th, 1pm ET / 10am PT

More details: https://www.sucho.org/diy-archiving

#Browsertrix 1.12 has been released adding new workflow settings and support for crawling from different locations: more details in this blog post: https://webrecorder.net/blog/2024-11-07-browsertrix-1-12/

#WDPD2024

Webrecorder now has a refreshed website and an updated logo — if you've been to our website over the last few days, you might have noticed it looks a little different! Check it out at https://webrecorder.net

We'll publish a more detailed blog post soon, but here are some of the more interesting features to look for 🧵

Browsertrix 1.11 is out and the big news is that you can actually sign up and use it RIGHT NOW from https://browsertrix.com!

Details on other new features in this release are in the blog post as usual: https://webrecorder.net/2024/08/06/browsertrix-1-11.html

1.10 was a BIG release for #Browsertrix with the headline feature being assistive QA & review tools for web archives!

Check out the blog post for the details on how you can assess the quality of your crawls: https://webrecorder.net/2024/06/10/browsertrix-1-10.html