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
• Introduction to Archive-It 5.0

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. 

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. 

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. 

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. 

PDF Only Crawls

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

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. 

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!  

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.

Introduction to Archive-It 5.0

This is a recording of the live introduction and demonstration provided to existing Archive-It partners upon the release of Archive-It 5.0, our fully redesigned and enhanced web application. In this training Web Archivists cover the full list of improvements and enhancements, including earlier releases, walk through using the newest tools in the live interface, and answer questions.

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