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Please help improve it by replacing them with more appropriate citations to reliable, independent sources . ( April 2025 ) ( Learn how and when to remove this message ) Webrecorder Software LLC Type Private Founded 5 February 2020 Founder Ilya Kreymer Products ReplayWeb.page, Browsertrix, OldWeb.Today, ArchiveWeb.page Website https://webrecorder.net Webrecorder is an American technology company founded by Ilya Kreymer that builds open source web archiving tools and maintains the WACZ file format. History [ edit ] In 2016 Rhizome was awarded a $600,000 USD multi-year grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation to fund and continue to operate Webrecorder.io, an open source website that allowed users to archive and replay archived webpages. [ 1 ] Lead by Ilya Kreymer and Dragan Espenschied , the project would build atop Kreymer's previous work as a consultant for Rhizome [ 2 ] and continue to use pywb for capture and playback of WARC files. [ 3 ] In 2020 after four years of development, Rhizome and Kreymer announced that Webrecorder would split into its own commercial entity, with the archiving service being renamed to "Conifer". [ 4 ] [ 5 ] Following the split, Kreymer would go on to release ArchiveWeb.page and ReplayWeb.page — applications that allow users to archive and replay archived webpages respectively, without the use of a central server to facilitate the capture or playback of archived material. [ 4 ] [ 6 ] In 2021, Webrecorder was awarded multiple grants from the Filecoin Foundation to work on design and standardization of browser-based web archive file formats and further development of Browsertrix, Webrecorder's cloud-based SaaS archiving platform. [ 7 ] [ 8 ] In 2024, Webrecorder enabled open signups for Browsertrix allowing anyone to create their own account and start archiving websites. [ 9 ] Products [ edit ] ArchiveWeb.page [ edit ] ArchiveWeb.page is a browser extension and standalone desktop application that allows users to interactively create high-fidelity web archives as they browse the web similar to Rhizome's Conifer . [ 10 ] Because ArchiveWeb.page uses a full browser for archiving, it has been noted as being "more successful" than other non-browser-based archiving tools such as Heritrix at the cost of requiring manual operation during the capture process. [ 11 ] ArchiveWeb.page supports exporting both WARC and WACZ files. Browsertrix [ edit ] Browsertrix is Webrecorder's SaaS web archiving suite that allows users to crawl websites using a browser-based crawler and share links to web archives. [ 12 ] Browsertrix supports importing and exporting WACZ files. ReplayWeb.page [ edit ] ReplayWeb.page is Webrecorder's browser-based web archive viewer available as both a web application and standalone desktop application. [ 13 ] ReplayWeb.page can view archived content within WARC , WACZ , and HAR files [ 14 ] See also [ edit ] List of Web archiving initiatives Internet Archive References [ edit ] ^ "Rhizome Awarded $600,000 by The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation to build Webrecorder" . Rhizome . 2016-01-04 . Retrieved 2025-04-06 . ^ Connor, Michael (2015-11-13). "Working to create a digital social memory for all" . Knight Foundation . Retrieved 2025-04-06 . ^ Kreymer, Ilya. "WebRecorder.io" . Webrecorder.io . Archived from the original on 2014-05-12 . Retrieved 2014-05-12 . ^ a b Kreymer, Ilya (2020-06-11). "A New Phase for Webrecorder Project, Conifer and ReplayWeb.page" . Webrecorder . Retrieved 2025-04-06 . ^ "Introducing Conifer" . Rhizome . 2020-06-11 . Retrieved 2025-04-06 . ^ Kreymer, Ilya (2021-01-18). "Introducing ArchiveWeb.page - Local High-Fidelity Web Archiving directly in your browser" . Webrecorder . Retrieved 2025-04-06 . ^ "Dev Grant Spotlight — Webrecorder | Filecoin Foundation" . fil.org . Retrieved 2025-04-06 . ^ Kreymer, Ilya (2022-06-21). "Webrecorder receives $1.3M open source development grant from the Filecoin Foundation" . Webrecorder . Retrieved 2025-04-06 . ^ Segal-Grossman, Emma; Wilkinson, Henry; Walsh, Tessa; Kreymer, Ilya (2024-08-06). "Browsertrix 1.11: Self Sign-Up, QA Improvements, Easier Downloading and new APIs" . Webrecorder . Retrieved 2025-04-06 . ^ "ArchiveWeb.page" . Webrecorder . 2025-01-10 . Retrieved 2025-04-14 . ^ Stapelfeldt, Kirsta; Khera, Sukhvir; Ledchumykanthan, Natkeeran; Gomez, Lara; Liu, Erin; Dhaliwal, Sonia (2022-05-09). "Strategies for Preserving Digital Scholarship / Humanities Projects" . Code4Lib Journal : 2. ISSN   1940-5758 . ^ "Browsertrix" . Webrecorder . Retrieved 2025-04-15 . ^ "ReplayWeb.page" . Webrecorder . 2025-03-13 . Retrieved 2025-04-14 . ^ "User Guide" . ReplayWeb.page Docs . 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