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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.

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GitHub Actions: Using GitHub Script

This course covers how to use GitHub Script to quickly use octokit/rest in a GitHub Actions workflow.

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GitHub Script is a special action that allows using octokit/rest.js directly in a workflow file.

Over the duration of this course you will learn the skills needed to begin using the GitHub Script action to interact with your repository which will save you from creating full blown actions that carry unnecessary overhead.

What you'll learn

In this course you will learn how to:

What you'll build

A user opens an issue, the GitHub Actions bot responds with a welcome message. Another window shows that the issue has been added to a project board.

In this course you will automatically generate a comment on every new issue using a templated response. Additionally, if this issue is labeled as a bug it will be automatically added to the "needs triage" column of a project board.

Prerequisites

We first recommend taking the following courses:

Projects used

This makes use of the following open source projects. Consider exploring these repos and maybe even making contributions!

Audience

Developers, DevOps Engineers, students, teams

Steps to complete this course 11
  1. Start here!

    Create a pull request to add a workflow

  2. Merge your first pull request

    Make the workflow available to the repository by merging the pull request

  3. Add another GitHub Script action

    Use GitHub Script to place this issue into a project board

  4. Modify your workflow file

    Create a pull request to add changes to your workflow

  5. Merge the updated workflow into the main branch

    Make the workflow available for use on the repository

  6. Break your workflow into multiple steps

    Separate the workflow concerns by adding more steps

  7. Create better comments

    Use a templated repsonse as the comment body

  8. Use a templated response

    Create the comment body from a template using the Node.js file system module

  9. Merge the updated workflow

    Merge the worklow to the main branch

  10. Another workflow run

    Observe the results of an enhanced workflow run

  11. Course recap

    Final notes on course

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