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October 1, 2023

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August 10, 2025

This document lists various tools and services for web capture and archives, providing options for capturing, storing, and accessing web content.

Hosted Web Archiving Services

  • Archive-It: Subscription service from the Internet Archive for institutions to capture and manage digital collections.
  • Pagefreezer: SaaS for archiving websites, social media, and enterprise collaboration platforms.
  • Perma.cc: Service for scholars and authors to create permanent web reference links to prevent link rot.
  • Stillio: Scheduled screenshot capture service for websites.
  • Stored.website: Web page storage and archiving service.
  • Webrecorder: High-fidelity, interactive recording of any browsed page for offline replay.

Public Archive Access & Capture

  • Wayback Machine: Browse and access historical versions of websites.
  • Archive.is: On-demand web page snapshots that remain accessible even if the original is removed.
  • CachedView: View cached versions of web pages from multiple sources.

Desktop & Local Capture Tools

  • HTTrack: Free offline browser for downloading entire websites to local storage.
  • BlackWidow: Website data extraction and offline storage tool for webmasters.

Developer & Command-Line Tools

  • Wayback Machine Archiver: Command-line tool to bulk download pages from the Wayback Machine.
  • waybackpy: Python package and CLI for interacting with the Wayback Machine APIs.
  • Colander: Case and knowledge management platform with file hashing and archiving features.