On this page: 

• Getting Started
• Navigating Archive-It
• Administrative Functions
• Pre-crawl Scoping
• Test Crawls
• PDF Only Crawls
• Post Crawl Analysis
• Getting the most from your post crawl reports
• Understanding your Hosts Report
• Quality Assurance
• Advanced Training Webinars
• Advanced Scoping
• Archiving Video Content
• Archiving Social Media
• Advanced Quality Assurance
• Access to Archive-It Collections
• Under the Hood
• Describing Web Archives
• Intro to Brozzler
• WARC Tools for Management and Preservation
• Archive-It as a Reference Tool
• The Web Archiving Systems API (WASAPI)
• The Archive-It Partner API
• Teaching Archive-It
• Collection development policies
• The Wayback API
  
• Intro to the WARC
  
• Lone Arrangers
• The State of Social Media Web Archiving
• Reassess Your Access: Waybackfill and Redirection Service 

Getting Started

Navigating Archive-It

New to Archive-It or just need a refresher? This video will help you get acquainted with the Archive-It web application, pointing out where features are located and why you might want to use them.

Navigating Archive-It Section	Time
Public Website	01:08
Partner Account Application	02:32
Collection Overview Tab	05:11
Seeds Tab	06:06
Crawls Tab	07:19
Crawl Scope Tab	08:12
Metadata Tab	08:37
Wayback QA Tab	08:56

 

Administrative Functions

Are you the administrator of your Archive-It account? If so, watch this video to find out how to add and edit users, and how to use the other administrative features available in your account. Features include: URL customization, account level metadata, and Google Analytics [replaced by Plausible Analytics].

Administrative Functions Section	Time
Add and Edit Users	00:24
Customize URL, Logo, Description	01:17
Set Metadata Fields to Private	05:11
Google Analytics [deprecated - replacement]	02:09

 

Pre-crawl Scoping

Make sure your seeds are set up correctly before you start your crawls. In this video you'll learn tips for selecting, formatting, and administering your seed URLs before you run a crawl to help capture the data you're looking for.

Pre-Crawl Scoping Section	Time
Selecting and Formatting Seeds	00:25
Seed Types	04:10
Standard Scoping Rules	05:12

 

Test Crawls 

Adding new seeds or scoping rules? You'll want to make sure you run a test crawl! This video will give you tips on how and why to run test crawls in your collections.

Test Crawls Section	Time
Run a Test Crawl	00:09
Review a Test Crawl	01:14
Save a Test Crawl	02:08

 

PDF Only Crawls

Learn how to run a PDF Only crawl and how to access the archived PDFs

PDF Only Crawl Section	Time
One-Time or Test Crawls	00:03
Scheduled Crawls	00:39
Review Crawls	01:03

 

Post-crawl Analysis

Getting the most from your post crawl reports

So you've run a crawl, now what? This video walks through each report to provide detail on why each post-crawl report is necessary, and the information you can glean from them.

Getting the Most Section	Time
Crawl Overview	00:55
Seeds Report	02:46
Seeds' Hosts Report	03:59
Hosts Report	05:13
File Types Report	05:38

 

Understanding your Hosts Report

Don't be overwhelmed by the information in your Hosts report! Find out all of the different ways you can use it to identify crawler traps, block hosts, add data limits, run patch crawls, and more!

Understanding Hosts Reports Section	Time
Blocked Hosts	01:49
Patch Crawl Blocked Hosts	02:54
Queued Hosts	03:27
Out of Scope Hosts	05:39

 

Quality Assurance

What can you do if your archived websites don't look quite right in Wayback? Following these steps may help you improve the capture and replay of your Wayback pages.

Quality Assurance Section	Time
Checking Reports	00:35
Wayback QA Tool	02:19
Crawl page as a seed	06:17
Proxy Mode (deprecated)	04:25

 

Advanced Training Webinars

These recordings of our advanced training webinars are recommended for users who are familiar and comfortable with the content outlined in our “Getting Started” and “Post Crawl Analysis” video curricula.

Advanced Scoping

This live session on advanced crawl scoping tools and techniques will empower you with a toolbox of tips and tricks for you to use as you crawl. Recorded August 28, 2018.

 

Archiving Video Content

This webinar explains how general archiving workflows apply to video content. A look at both capture and replay, as related to YouTube, Vimeo, and streaming video platforms, followed by a live review of results from a YouTube crawl. Recorded February 7, 2017.

 

Archiving Social Media

In this webinar, the focus is on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram and YouTube. We also cover how to scope embedded social content and quality assurance strategies relevant to social media sites. Recorded November 14, 2017.

 

Web Archiving Quality Assurance

This recording takes an in-depth look at quality assurance strategies that will strengthen your ability to assess and improve your crawl results. Recorded August 8, 2017.

 

Access to Archive-It Collections

This webinar reviews different strategies used by partners for providing and boosting access to their Archive-It collections. Recorded May 2, 2017.

 

Under the Hood: Tips & Tools

This webinar takes a look at the tips and tools the Archive-It team uses most in their own web archiving and quality assurance workflows. Recorded February 13, 2018.

Under the Hood Section	Time
Collections and Seeds	02:00
CDX	07:05
Browser Tips	19:10
Wayback QA	23:35
Search	30:20

 

Describing Web Archives

This webinar takes a look at some ideas and methods for descriptive metadata practice and features Archive-It partners and peers. Recorded May 22, 2018. Presentation materials and further discussion about this topic may be found here in the Archive-It Community Forum.

 

Intro to Brozzler

This webinar describes and demonstrates the new browser-based web capture technology available to Archive-It partners. Recorded July 10, 2018.

 

WARC Tools for Management and Preservation

This webinar takes a look at the tools some Archive-It partners use in their own web archiving workflows for WARC management and preservation. Recorded November 20, 2018.

 

Archive-It as a Reference Tool

This webinar demonstrates how you can use Archive-It and other web archives as a reference tool. Recorded February 26, 2019.

 

The Web Archiving Systems API (WASAPI)

This webinar demonstrates how to use WASAPI as a tool to access, download, and transfer WARC file data and metadata. Recorded May 29, 2019.

 

The Archive-It Partner API

This webinar introduces the Archive-It Partner API and describes the way you can use it to develop custom access layers, manage administrative metadata, or to preserve technical and descriptive metadata, among other use-cases. Recorded August 21, 2019.

 

Teaching Archive-It

A webinar with Archive-It partners from Library and Archives Canada, New York University, and the Internet Archive about their web archiving training and education practices and resources for new web archivists as they get started. Recorded November 19, 2019.

 

Collection development policies

A webinar with Archive-It partners from Queens Public Library, Austin Presbyterian Theological Seminary, and UC San Diego about making, following, and updating the policies that guide their collecting decisions. Recorded February 18, 2020.

 

The Wayback API

A webinar about the APIs that anyone can use in order to retrieve metadata about web captures in the Internet Archive's Wayback Machine and Archive-It partners' collections, including access, quality assurance, and development applications. Recorded April 1, 2020.

Introduction to the WARC

A recording of the live webinar introduction to the Web ARChive (WARC) file format for Archive-It partners, web archivists, and peers in digital preservation. Recorded May 5, 2020.

Sample WARC file for Archive-It Advanced Training (available for download)

 

The State of Social Media Web Archiving

A webinar discussing the state of web archiving social media.  Recorded December 16, 2020.

 

Reassess Your Access: Waybackfill and Redirection Service 

A webinar discussing the new Archive-It services Waybackfill and Redirection Service.  Recorded March 31, 2021.