web-archive
Webrecorder / Browsertrix
The maker of Browsertrix and the successor toolchain to Conifer: self-hostable or hosted crawling software that produces WACZ/WARC web-archive files. There is no central public corpus to search, every deployment holds its own captures. Relevant when you want to create high-fidelity archives of sites yourself rather than search existing ones.
No programmatic check, opens the archive’s own search.
Why it’s useful & how it works
Webrecorder is the open-source project behind Browsertrix and the WACZ file format, which succeeded Conifer as the toolchain for high-fidelity web archiving. It is a platform for creating archives, not a searchable public collection. If your goal is to look up existing archived pages, Webrecorder itself is not the right destination. Echo links you to its site as a resource for those who want to understand the technology or run their own crawls.
What’s inside
No central public corpus. Every organisation or individual that deploys Browsertrix holds its own private or institutional archive; there is no shared searchable collection.
API access
Per-deployment REST API (token).
An API key is required (usually free); see the endpoints above for where to get one.
What we measured
Our own probes, not the archive’s own claims. Re-run periodically; every reading below is dated.
Reachability
- Direct request
- Responded HTTP 200 587 ms
- Through a datacenter proxy
- Responded HTTP 200 1.2 s
Reachability measured 2026-08-22.
Access
Catalogue link only, open the archive to search it yourself.