Webrecorder
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| Company type | Private |
|---|---|
| Founded | 5 February 2020 |
| Founder | Ilya Kreymer |
| Products | ReplayWeb.page, Browsertrix, OldWeb.Today, ArchiveWeb.page |
| Website | https://webrecorder.net |
Webrecorder is an American technology company founded by Ilya Kreymer that builds open source web archiving tools and maintains the WACZ file format.
In 2016 Rhizome was awarded a $600,000 USD multi-year grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation to fund and continue to operate Webrecorder.io, an open source website that allowed users to archive and replay archived webpages.[1] Lead by Ilya Kreymer and Dragan Espenschied, the project would build atop Kreymer's previous work as a consultant for Rhizome[2] and continue to use pywb for capture and playback of WARC files.[3]
In 2020 after four years of development, Rhizome and Kreymer announced that Webrecorder would split into its own commercial entity, with the archiving service being renamed to "Conifer".[4][5] Following the split, Kreymer would go on to release ArchiveWeb.page and ReplayWeb.page — applications that allow users to archive and replay archived webpages respectively, without the use of a central server to facilitate the capture or playback of archived material.[4][6]
In 2021, Webrecorder was awarded multiple grants from the Filecoin Foundation to work on design and standardization of browser-based web archive file formats and further development of Browsertrix, Webrecorder's cloud-based SaaS archiving platform.[7][8]
In 2024, Webrecorder enabled open signups for Browsertrix allowing anyone to create their own account and start archiving websites.[9]
