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663 points nikisweeting | 1 comments | | HN request time: 0.203s | source

We've been pushing really hard over the last 6mo to develop this release. I'd love to hear feedback from people who've worked on big plugin systems in the past, or anyone who's tried our betas!
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toomuchtodo ◴[] No.41861236[source]
https://github.com/ArchiveTeam/grab-site might be helpful. I'm a fan of the ability to create WARC archives from a target, uploard the WARC files to object storage (whether that is IA, S3, Backblaze B2, etc), and then keep them in cold storage or serve them up via HTTPS or a torrent (mutable, preferred). The Internet Archive serves a torrent file for every item they host; one can do the same with WARC archives to enable a distributed archive. CDX indexes can be used for rapidly querying the underlying WARC archives.

You might support cryptographically signing WARC archives; Wayback is particular about archive provenance and integrity, for example.

https://www.loc.gov/preservation/digital/formats/fdd/fdd0005... ("CDX Internet Archive Index File")

https://www.loc.gov/preservation/digital/formats/fdd/fdd0002... ("WARC, Web ARChive file format")

https://github.com/internetarchive/wayback/tree/master/wayba... ("Wayback CDX Server API - BETA")

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nikisweeting ◴[] No.41861288[source]
I recommend Browsertrix for WARC creation, I think they are the best currently available for WARC/WACZ.

ArchiveBox is also gearing up to support real cryptographic signing of archives using https://tlsnotary.org/ in an upcoming plugin. (in a way that actually solves the TLS non-repudation issue, which traditional "signing a WARC" does not, more info: https://www.ndss-symposium.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/nd...)

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