🗃 ArchiveBox

Personal self-hosted web archiving is easy with ArchiveBox. Save pages you see on the internet for later and build your own personal internet archive.

AwesomeFOSS Team

Jan 30, 2023 • 1 min read

Ever wanted to have your own personal internet archive? ArchiveBox (code) is a F/OSS for just that – web archiving.

ArchiveBox demo (source: https://demo.archivebox.io)

Save pages that you want to keep for later, and makes sure that they're always visible to you – saving media/PDFs/images and ArchiveBox does a little bit of crawling to make sure the page is represented truthfully when you view it later.

ArchiveBox offers multiple methods of archiving:

So even if you can't necessarily run the archiving yourself, you can always make a secondary backup of a source like Archive.org.

Running ArchiveBox

ArchiveBox has fantastic, clear and easy to read documentation (and a great README), so regardless of how you want to run it, check those resources first.

ArchiveBox is docker friendly, with an official image, so it's easy to run locally as a server with the admin interface running at localhost:8000:

docker run 
  -v $PWD/archive-box-data:/data 
  -p 8000:8000 
  archivebox/archivebox

Note that you can also use archivebox as just a command (with docker), so you don't have to necessarily install it and run it as a server:

docker run -v $PWD:/data -it [archivebox subcommand] [--args]

This makes it easy to integrate archivebox into other automation/cron tasks, etc.