Webrecorder

In 2016 Rhizome was awarded a $600,000 USD multi-year grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation to fund and continue to operate Webrecorder.io, an open source website that allowed users to archive and replay archived webpages.{{Cite web |date=2016-01-04 |title=Rhizome Awarded $600,000 by The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation to build Webrecorder |url=https://rhizome.org/editorial/2016/jan/04/webrecorder-mellon/ |access-date=2025-04-06 |website=Rhizome |language=en}} Lead by Ilya Kreymer and Dragan Espenschied, the project would build atop Kreymer's previous work as a consultant for Rhizome{{Cite web |last=Connor |first=Michael |date=2015-11-13 |title=Working to create a digital social memory for all |url=https://knightfoundation.org/articles/working-create-digital-social-memory-all/ |access-date=2025-04-06 |website=Knight Foundation |language=en-US}} and continue to use pywb for capture and playback of WARC files.{{Cite web |last=Kreymer |first=Ilya |title=WebRecorder.io |url=http://webrecorder.io/#about |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140512202400/http://webrecorder.io/#about |archive-date=2014-05-12 |access-date=2014-05-12 |website=Webrecorder.io}}

In 2020 after four years of development, Rhizome and Kreymer announced that Webrecorder would split into its own commercial entity, with the archiving service being renamed to "Conifer".{{Cite web |last=Kreymer |first=Ilya |date=2020-06-11 |title=A New Phase for Webrecorder Project, Conifer and ReplayWeb.page |url=https://webrecorder.net/blog/2020-06-11-webrecorder-conifer-and-replayweb-page/ |access-date=2025-04-06 |website=Webrecorder |language=en}}{{Cite web |date=2020-06-11 |title=Introducing Conifer |url=https://rhizome.org/editorial/2020/jun/11/introducing-conifer/ |access-date=2025-04-06 |website=Rhizome |language=en}} Following the split, Kreymer would go on to release ArchiveWeb.page and ReplayWeb.page — applications that allow users to archive and replay archived webpages respectively, without the use of a central server to facilitate the capture or playback of archived material.{{Cite web |last=Kreymer |first=Ilya |date=2021-01-18 |title=Introducing ArchiveWeb.page - Local High-Fidelity Web Archiving directly in your browser |url=https://webrecorder.net/blog/2021-01-18-archiveweb-page-extension/ |access-date=2025-04-06 |website=Webrecorder |language=en}}

In 2021, Webrecorder was awarded multiple grants from the Filecoin Foundation to work on design and standardization of browser-based web archive file formats and further development of Browsertrix, Webrecorder's cloud-based SaaS archiving platform.{{Cite web |title=Dev Grant Spotlight — Webrecorder {{!}} Filecoin Foundation |url=https://fil.org/blog/dev-grant-spotlight-webrecorder |access-date=2025-04-06 |website=fil.org |language=en}}{{Cite web |last=Kreymer |first=Ilya |date=2022-06-21 |title=Webrecorder receives $1.3M open source development grant from the Filecoin Foundation |url=https://webrecorder.net/blog/2022-06-21-announcing-new-grant-from-filecoin/ |access-date=2025-04-06 |website=Webrecorder |language=en}}

In 2024, Webrecorder enabled open signups for Browsertrix allowing anyone to create their own account and start archiving websites.{{Cite web |last=Segal-Grossman |first=Emma |last2=Wilkinson |first2=Henry |last3=Walsh |first3=Tessa |last4=Kreymer |first4=Ilya |date=2024-08-06 |title=Browsertrix 1.11: Self Sign-Up, QA Improvements, Easier Downloading and new APIs |url=https://webrecorder.net/blog/2024-08-06-browsertrix-1-11/ |access-date=2025-04-06 |website=Webrecorder |language=en}}

ArchiveWeb.page is a browser extension and standalone desktop application that allows users to interactively create high-fidelity web archives as they browse the web similar to Rhizome's Conifer.{{Cite web |date=2025-01-10 |title=ArchiveWeb.page |url=https://webrecorder.net/archivewebpage/ |access-date=2025-04-14 |website=Webrecorder |language=en}} Because ArchiveWeb.page uses a full browser for archiving, it has been noted as being "more successful" than other non-browser-based archiving tools such as Heritrix at the cost of requiring manual operation during the capture process.{{Cite journal |last=Stapelfeldt |first=Kirsta |last2=Khera |first2=Sukhvir |last3=Ledchumykanthan |first3=Natkeeran |last4=Gomez |first4=Lara |last5=Liu |first5=Erin |last6=Dhaliwal |first6=Sonia |date=2022-05-09 |title=Strategies for Preserving Digital Scholarship / Humanities Projects |url=https://utoronto.scholaris.ca/handle/1807/141496 |journal=Code4Lib Journal |language=en |pages=2 |issn=1940-5758}}

ArchiveWeb.page supports exporting both WARC and WACZ files.

Browsertrix is Webrecorder's SaaS web archiving suite that allows users to crawl websites using a browser-based crawler and share links to web archives.{{Cite web |title=Browsertrix |url=https://webrecorder.net/browsertrix/ |access-date=2025-04-15 |website=Webrecorder |language=en}}

Browsertrix supports importing and exporting WACZ files.

ReplayWeb.page is Webrecorder's browser-based web archive viewer available as both a web application and standalone desktop application.{{Cite web |date=2025-03-13 |title=ReplayWeb.page |url=https://webrecorder.net/replaywebpage/ |access-date=2025-04-14 |website=Webrecorder |language=en}}

ReplayWeb.page can view archived content within WARC, WACZ, and HAR files{{Cite web |last= |title=User Guide |url=https://replayweb.page/docs/user-guide/ |access-date=2025-04-14 |website=ReplayWeb.page Docs}}

• List of Web archiving initiatives
• Internet Archive

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