Web archiving
This topic is about archiving web pages and websites.
What I learnt about making websites by reading two thousand web pages
How to write thoughtful HTML, new-to-me features of CSS, and some quirks and relics I found while building my personal web archive.
Building a personal archive of the web, the slow way
How I built a web archive by hand, the tradeoffs between manual and automated archiving, and what I learnt about preserving the web.
Creating a static website for all my bookmarks
To help me keep track of interesting links, I created a static website that keeps all my data locally. Why do I care about bookmarks, and how does my new site work?
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My favourite websites from my bookmark collection
Websites that change randomly, that mirror the real world, or even follow the moon and the sun, plus my all-time favourite website design.
Creating a Safari webarchive from the command line
We can use the
createWebArchiveDatamethod onWKWebViewto write a Swift script that creates Safari webarchive files.Taking regular screenshots of my website
A screenshot a day keeps the bit rot at bay.
Downloading the AO3 fics that I’ve saved in Pinboard
A script that downloads the nicely formatted AO3 downloads for everything I’ve saved in Pinboard.
Backing up full-page archives from Pinboard
A Rust utility for saving local copies of my full-page archives from Pinboard.
Automatic Pinboard backups
A script for automatically backing up bookmarks from Pinboard
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How to get a list of captures from the Wayback Machine
Use the CDX Server API to get a list of captures for a particular URL.
What’s inside a Safari webarchive?
The inside of a
.webarchivefile is a binary property list with the complete responses and some request metadata.How to take a screenshot of a page in the Wayback Machine
Using Playwright to take screenshots and adding some custom styles gets a screenshot of a page without the Wayback Machine overlay.