Aug SEP Oct
14
2019 2020 2021
success
fail

About this capture

COLLECTED BY

Organization: Archive Team

Formed in 2009, the Archive Team (not to be confused with the archive.org Archive-It Team) is a rogue archivist collective dedicated to saving copies of rapidly dying or deleted websites for the sake of history and digital heritage. The group is 100% composed of volunteers and interested parties, and has expanded into a large amount of related projects for saving online and digital history.

History is littered with hundreds of conflicts over the future of a community, group, location or business that were "resolved" when one of the parties stepped ahead and destroyed what was there. With the original point of contention destroyed, the debates would fall to the wayside. Archive Team believes that by duplicated condemned data, the conversation and debate can continue, as well as the richness and insight gained by keeping the materials. Our projects have ranged in size from a single volunteer downloading the data to a small-but-critical site, to over 100 volunteers stepping forward to acquire terabytes of user-created data to save for future generations.

The main site for Archive Team is at archiveteam.org and contains up to the date information on various projects, manifestos, plans and walkthroughs.

This collection contains the output of many Archive Team projects, both ongoing and completed. Thanks to the generous providing of disk space by the Internet Archive, multi-terabyte datasets can be made available, as well as in use by the Wayback Machine, providing a path back to lost websites and work.

Our collection has grown to the point of having sub-collections for the type of data we acquire. If you are seeking to browse the contents of these collections, the Wayback Machine is the best first stop. Otherwise, you are free to dig into the stacks to see what you may find.

The Archive Team Panic Downloads are full pulldowns of currently extant websites, meant to serve as emergency backups for needed sites that are in danger of closing, or which will be missed dearly if suddenly lost due to hard drive crashes or server failures.

Collection: ArchiveBot: The Archive Team Crowdsourced Crawler

ArchiveBot is an IRC bot designed to automate the archival of smaller websites (e.g. up to a few hundred thousand URLs). You give it a URL to start at, and it grabs all content under that URL, records it in a WARC, and then uploads that WARC to ArchiveTeam servers for eventual injection into the Internet Archive (or other archive sites).

To use ArchiveBot, drop by #archivebot on EFNet. To interact with ArchiveBot, you issue commands by typing it into the channel. Note you will need channel operator permissions in order to issue archiving jobs. The dashboard shows the sites being downloaded currently.

There is a dashboard running for the archivebot process at http://www.archivebot.com.

ArchiveBot's source code can be found at https://github.com/ArchiveTeam/ArchiveBot.

TIMESTAMPS
The Wayback Machine - http://web.archive.org/web/20200914062401/https://github.community/
Category Topics
Introduce yourself to other users, get caught up on announcements, or ask questions about the GitHub Support Community itself here.
232
Having problems with your GitHub Account? Get Help here.
212
Ask and answer questions regarding Git and GitHub.
3750
Discussion and questions about GitHub Actions—automation for all of your development workflows, now with world-class CI/CD.
3297
Discussion and support using the GitHub API, building GitHub Apps, and everything else to do with the GitHub Platform.
1646
Discussion and questions about GitHub Pages—websites for you and your projects hosted right on your GitHub repository.
1075
Any questions related to GitHub Packages and how to manage your packages; upload, download, and delete. Happy to see questions about our help docs and the core set of clients and services we support but also questions about configuring and using alternate clients are welcome.
104
Going through GitHub Learning Lab courses? Ask questions or start a discussion here.
341
Codespaces provide instant developer environments right from your repo. With a Codespace you can get the full VS Code experience inside of GitHub so you can write, build, test, and debug your code all from the browser. To sign up for the waitlist for Codespaces beta, go to https://github.com/features/codespaces.
50
Find information about upcoming GitHub events and discover developer meetups and other related events online and in your area.
73
Need help with programming concepts or want to talk about programming tools, languages, and frameworks? This board is the place for you!
1215
Get help and advice from fellow GitHub users on your projects.
2180
0
44
  • Privacy
  • Security
  • Status
  • Help
  • Blog
  • Shop
  • Training
  • API
  • Contact GitHub