Are.na Web Archiver

A minimal, self-hosted utility for Are.na built with HTMX, FastAPI, and Wget.

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Details

• Websites are archived as HTML and WARC files.
• If no WARC filename is provided, the Are.na block ID will be used.
• Archives are saved in:
  • /tmp/arena_archives when running with Docker.
  • /tmp (inside the project repository) when running locally.
• Mirror → creates a 1:1 copy of the entire website.
• Snapshot → archives only a single page.

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Recommendations

• Use this tool to preserve old web content that might disappear one day.
• It’s intentionally minimal—expect the bare essentials.
• Some sites may cause infinite loops when mirroring (this error is not currently handled).
• For very large websites and archives, consider using a more robust archiving tool.

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Get Started

1. Clone repo
2. Have Python and and UV package manager and WGET installed on your machine
3. Start the server using make server
4. Access on http://127.0.0.1:8000
5. See docs at http://127.0.0.1:8000/docs

Get started with docker

1. run make docker-create-volume
2. run make docker-build
3. run make docker-run
4. Access on http://127.0.0.1:8000
5. See docs at http://127.0.0.1:8000/docs

contribute

See https://github.com/pivilartisant/arena-web-archiver/issues

License

Shield:

This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.