Introduction

Browsertrix is an intuitive, automated web archiving platform designed to allow you to archive, replay, and share interactive websites.

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How to use this guide

The user guide documents features, terminology, and settings in the Browsertrix web interface. The user guide navigation is organized similarly to the Browsertrix web interface for ease of browsing. You can also use the search box up top to search by topic.

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• Getting Started

  Start here if you’re new to Browsertrix.

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  • Create an account
  • Set up your account
  • Set up your account
  • Crawl your first webpage
  • Crawl your first social media page
  • Crawl an entire website
  • Review glossary of terms
  • Watch video tutorials

• Crawl Settings

  Customize crawls to achieve your archiving goals.

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  • Exclude pages from the archive
  • Exclude popups and prompts
  • Watch pages in real-time
  • Avoid crawler traps in real-time
  • Organize crawls into collections
  • Review, rate, and comment on crawled content

• Org Settings

  Manage your workspace and archived items.

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  • View essential stats & quotas
  • Manage billing
  • Invite team members
  • Import a collection
  • Create a public archive
  • Enable org deduplication

• Account Settings

  Manage your personal profile and preferences.

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  • Change your email
  • Change your password
  • Reset your password
  • Choose your preferred language
  • Change how your name appears to team members

Feedback

If you have any feedback on our documentation we'd love to hear it . We've written the user guide with both seasoned web archivists and new archivists in mind and we value feedback from all levels of archiving experience.

For help with a specific topic, try our community help forum .

For bug reports or feature requests, please open a GitHub issue .

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About Webrecorder

Browsertrix is built and hosted by Webrecorder, a leading expert in web archiving. Our goal is to make web archiving easier and more accessible to everyone through open source tools, easy-to-use interfaces, and community building. Learn more about us