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Intro to Collections

A collection is a specific, user-directed grouping of archived items from either crawls or WACZ files. You can create a collection, add content to your collection, include a description to your collection, download your collection, and share your collection whichever way you need to others in your community.

Create a Collection

You can create a collection from the Collections page directly, or the Create New... shortcut from the org dashboard.

Add Collection Content

Collections are the primary way of organizing and combining archived items into groups for presentation. Collections also allow you to view a combined replay of any archived items they contain; if a link is present when viewing a collection but the actual page is missing, and another item with that captured page is added to the collection, the link will now work as expected.

Tip: Patching a crawl with interactive archiving

If the crawler has not captured every resource or interaction on a webpage, our ArchiveWeb.page browser extension can be used to interactively capture missing content using your web browser and upload it directly to your org.

After adding crawls and uploads to a collection, content from both will become available in the replay viewer.

Crawls and uploads can be added to a collection after creation by selecting Select Archived Items from the collection's actions menu.

A crawl workflow can also be set to automatically add any completed crawls to a collection in the workflow's settings.

Customize a Collection

The Presentation and Sharing page provides further details for options on how to present and share Collections. You can customize how your Collection appears to the public by clicking the edit button in each collection to:

  • Name it and add a description — include emojis if that’s your style 😉

  • Select a thumbnail to represent it: Choose between a page screenshot and a placeholder

  • Choose the initial view for your Collection

Download a Collection

Downloading a collection will export every archived item in it as a single WACZ file. To download a collection, use the Download Collection option under the collection's Actions dropdown.

Collection Access

Collections can be set to one of the one following access modes.

  • Private — Collections only accessible to logged in users
  • Unlisted — Collections can be shared with others, given the link to the collection.
  • Public — Collections can be shared with others, and when enabled, collections can also be listed in the public collections gallery.

Note: About Public Collections Gallery

If the public collections gallery page is not enabled, any existing public collections are treated the same as unlisted collections. Check out enabling public collection gallery for a guide on how to enable this page.