Helper Seeds

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Abigail Barrett

November 13, 2023 20:27

Has anyone ever heard of helper seeds? If so how do you use them and how do they work?  

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  Skip Kendall November 15, 2023 14:09

  Abigail,

  They're non-public seeds you run along with a public seed to achieve some desired result. In some cases, the page will only be captured properly if run as a seed. Another use case is with YouTube, where capturing the videos page (and now the Shorts and Live pages) ensures getting all videos on the channel or account. Information about that is on the YouTube help page here: https://support.archive-it.org/hc/en-us/articles/208333753-Archiving-YouTube-videos. That one doesn't call the videos page a helper seed but the Facebook article does: https://support.archive-it.org/hc/en-us/articles/208333113-Archiving-Facebook. Hopefully that's enough to get you started.

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  Abigail Barrett November 15, 2023 19:01

  Thank you!

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