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We know how important social media archiving is for organizations. The latest release of Browsertrix has made significant improvements to the behavior system that automates browsing these sites, so you can feel more confident crawling social media. For th

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On December 15th, Rhizome announced the sunset, or "twilight" of the Conifer service . The service will be taken down some time around June 2026. As some of you know, the Conifer service was a previous-generation archiving service which was developed duri

We are excited to announce a new release of Browsertrix, 1.21 . This blog post covers the changes in this new release, as well as the previous two releases, 1.19 and 1.20 . Each of these bring exciting new features, as well as bug fixes and performance im

In the new version of Browsertrix we're adding support for large URL lists, and making some steps towards better and more consistent communication. Large URL Lists A long-requested feature in Browsertrix has been support for crawling a very long list of U

We are excited to announce the release of Browsertrix 1.17. This release includes some commonly-requested improvements to crawling, including the ability to pause and resume crawls, and the ability to crawl with only 1 or 2 browser windows. Pausing and Re

We are thrilled to introduce a new feature available starting in Browsertrix 1.15 that will be very exciting for our Browsertrix power users: support for custom behaviors that let you automate in-page actions while crawling specific websites. You can now

Funding for cultural institutions has been a constant uphill battle for decades. No matter the organization's size, from small community archives to local public libraries and even larger national libraries and universities, we have all encountered simila

We have launched a brand new Resources page where you can learn more about web archiving, how our tools work, and how people are using them across different fields. Our goal with this evolving hub is to support and inspire everyone in the web archiving co

We're excited to announce the launch of GovArchive.us , a dedicated site for exploring our US Government Web Archive on Browsertrix. The project also introduces a brand new approach for viewing web archives: the ability to host a full-site "mirror" from a