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.
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.What’s inside a Safari webarchive?
The inside of a
.webarchivefile is a binary property list with the complete responses and some request metadata.Taking regular screenshots of my website
A screenshot a day keeps the bit rot at bay.
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.
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.
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