Presentation & Sharing¶

To present a collection to viewers outside of your organization, you can enable a shareable link.

A collection is private by default, but can be made sharable either with an unlisted link, or displayed in your org's public gallery for everyone to discover.

From Org Dashboard¶

To access share settings for a collection from Dashboard:

Select the asterisk icon in order to see all your collections.
Select the share icon on the specific collection you want to share.

From Collections List¶

To access share settings for a collection from Collections, open the action menu for the collection and choose Share Collection.

From Collection Management Page¶

To access share settings from the collection management page, open the Actions menu and choose Share Collection.

Once you've opened the share settings dialog from one of these three locations, you can make the collection shareable with the following steps:

Change the visibility to Unlisted or Public.
Optional: Viewers can download the collection by default. To disable downloads, toggle Show download button off.
Save.

The collection will now have a Link to Share that can be given to anyone, even those without a Browsertrix account.

Edit a Collection¶

You can customize how your collection appears to the public by making edits from the collection management page. This is same page from which you configure archived items and deduplication settings.

Every aspect of the collection with a icon next to it, like collection name, is editable in-place.

Name¶

You can change the Name as long as it is within 50 characters, which is roughly between 7 words and 13 words with spaces included in the character count.

Summary¶

A summary describing your collection is not required, but it is useful information to others to summarize the collection and caption collection thumbnails in the gallery.

URLs in the summary will be displayed as clickable links.

Thumbnail¶

Choose a thumbnail image to represent this collection in your org's dashboard and public collections gallery page. Thumbnails can either be a placeholder image designed by Webrecorder, or a screenshot of a page from the collection.

To choose a screenshot:

Click on the thumbnail.
Select one of the page screenshots or search for a specific URL from the collection.

The collection thumbnail will be updated upon selecting a screenshot.

Why isn't there a thumbnail preview for my page?

If you have uploaded archived items captured with tools other than Browsertrix, some of the pages in your collection may not have screenshots available to use as thumbnails. To fix this, either re-crawl a page you wish to use as a thumbnail with Browsertrix and add it to the collection, or choose a placeholder thumbnail.

Initial View¶

The homepage is the first view visitors see first when browsing a collection. This initial view can either be a list of pages, which is the default when replaying using ReplayWeb.page, or a single page from your collection such as a crawl start URL or index page.

To update the initial view, select Set Homepage and choose an option:

Current Page — The page that is currently open in your replay view.
Page List — A list of all crawl URLs.

If the Current Page option is chosen, the collection thumbnail will automatically be updated to a screenshot of that page.

To disable the shareable link to a collection, follow the steps in Share a Collection but choose Private for Visibility. Visitors to the link will no longer be able to browse, download, or view the collection.