User:bzc6p
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bzc6p is a Hungarian amateur archivist who joined the efforts of ArchiveTeam. "Specialized" in watching and saving Hungarian websites.
Contact: vichratimot (at) archiveteam (dot) hu
Not been doing much spectacular activity recently, but still operating my long-running projects in my, now much less, free time. You may, however, successfully contact me on my talk page or via email if necessary.
See what I'm archiving.
My projects
Websites that I've archived, I'm archiving or I've taken part in organizing their archival, in reversed chronological order in each category. If the website has an entry on this wiki, consult that page for the archives. If not, a link to the archives should be found in the appropriate line.
Large websites
- Indafotó
- eOldal
- network.hu
- TVN.hu
- kepfeltoltes.hu
- kephost.com
- Selected YouTube videos, as part of News+C project
- myVIP
Medium-sized websites
- vadhajtasok.hu, as part of News+C/hu (continuous)
- kephost.net (continuous)
- videok.hu
- ingyenweb.hu
- kepfeltoltes.eu (continuous)
- Szuperinfó
- 444.hu, as part of News+C/hu
- hvg.hu, as part of News+C/hu (continuous)
- kuruc.info, as part of News+C/hu (continuous)
- pics.coldline.hu
- nol.hu (archive)
- Wikispot
- PSharing
- keptarad.hu
- kepkezelo.com
- noob.hu
- GTF Képhost
Small websites
- Dagály Fürdő (archive)
- WirtschaftsBlatt (archive)
- Balassi Intézet (archive)
- hi.co (archive)
- 2000 (archive)
- Mozaik TV (archive)
- Precedens Nyelvstúdió (archive)
- Álomautó Múzeum (archive)
- nolblog.hu
- tudjatok.hu
- Kecskeméti Szimfonikus Zenekar (archive)
- Mele Café (archive)
- Café Alibi (archive)
- Kecskeméti Kulturális és Konferencia Központ (archive)
- Széplaki Erzsébet (archive)
- Freddy Fitness (archive)
- legalja.hu (archive)
- Astra Insurance: Romania (archive), Hungary (archive)
- Kajászószentpéter (archives: website, photos, videos)
- netszar.com (archive)
- Hungarian Volán websites
- Demotivalo.net
- A few wikis in the beginning.
Non-web stuff
I'm also archiving some Hungarian TV and radio programmes, magazines and shop flyers.
To-do list
Hungarian websites that should be saved in the near future. I don't reserve them as my projects, as I might not have time for them soon.
I smell smoke
Abandonment, operational issues, read-only state, change in operator etc.
I plan to take action by the end of 2024
- fotozz.hu
- cafeblog.hu
- blogger.hu
- volanbusz.hu
Seem safe, but must-have
Long history or otherwise important.
Everything else on the list (and not on the list)
Nothing is safe! We have seen multi-terabyte websites go down immediately or with a few months notice!
However, they might be difficult to archive, too much to archive, not be of high historical importance, run by stable operators (rare!), or a combination of these, which keeps them out of focus.
Philosophy
My experience with my few website archiving endavours so far suggests that there are very few websites today that can be mirrored completely in automated ways without human control and intervention. Thus, if one wants to make quality archives even of a small website, it needs more or less attention, often additional work, or several, supplemental runs of archiving tools.
These archiving tools (wget, wpull, ArchiveBot etc.) are very important and useful, but in most cases, are themselves incapable of making complete archives. My philosophy is that we should do as complete and quality archives as possible, if we set off on the journey of archiving a website, so we cannot rely solely on these tools. Of course, constrained by time and resources, we must make a compromise. Otherwise, however, the above applies. At least for me. This is how I archive.
Recommended tools
Saving to WARC
- Chfoo's Wpull: a good alternative to wget, still being developed, with good archiving support
- wget: faster, but lacks some handy features wpull already has got, and is pretty much in its final state
- Internet Archive's warcprox: provides a proxy to your web browser, so you can easily create WARCs as you browse, if it's just a few pages
- Ikreymer's webrecorder.io: concept similar to warcprox, but you don't need to install anything, WARC is generated remotely (you can also install it, but it needs Docker)
Replaying WARCs
- Alard's warc-proxy: using a proxy, provides accurate replay, but doesn't support HTTPS, and development seems to be stopped
- Ikreymer's webarchiveplayer: doesn't use a proxy, works similarly to the Wayback Machine, but because of that, some URLs are not rewritten in the files, and may not play back properly
Uploading to IA
- Kngenie's ias3upload: just uploading, and needs a metadata CSV-file beforehand, but otherwise works fine
- IA-developed internetarchive: more versatile tool (upload, download, search etc.)
- Direct use of the Internet Archive S3 API with the curl program. The above uploading tools are based on this interface.
Further plans
I hope one day I can re-host Hungarian websites that are dead now but have been archived. Or, at least, create a Wayback Machine for Hungarian websites, that would also serve as a mirror to the corresponding Internet Archive items.
As for the URL Team project, given that the discovered URLs have not been saved in WARC format (yet) but in a format difficult to access and read, a shorturl-resolver service for already gone URL shorteners would be useful. It would be kind of a Wayback Machine for URL shorteners. It wouldn't even be difficult to set up, based on URL Team databases.
I would also be glad to record Hungarian radio and television channels' programme 24/7, but that would require a vast amount of resources, Until / instead of that, I'm collecting some recordings of notable Hungarian TV and radio programmes and moments from YouTube (and of course, I'm uploading them to the Archive).
Hungarian articles about Archive Team
Below I've collected online Hungarian news articles published about Archive Team that I've been able to find. The list is in reversed chronological order.
- I've proudly discovered that Archive Team got its own article (among Organizations) on the knowledge base of the Hungarian Internet Archive, that is, the Web Archiving Department of National Széchényi Library, the national library of Hungary! (Date: 2017-07-25).
- Péter Szűcs: Az internet nem felejt (The internet doesn't forget). itcafe.hu, 2015-03-05. (About ArchiveTeam's activity in general.)
- Dániel Dojcsák: Elpusztulhat a nem profitképes online tartalom (Non-profitable online content may vanish). hwsw.hu, 2013-12-03. (Mentions ArchiveTeam saving Blip videos.)
- Mit szóltok filmletöltők? Két héttel a bezárása után ismét működik a népszerű torrentoldal (What do you say, movie leechers? Two weeks after its closure popular torrent site runs again). hvg.hu, 2013-10-30. (About IsoHunt restoration.)
- Lementik a legnagyobb torrentkeresőt (They download the biggest torrent search site). index.hu, 2013-10-21. (About saving IsoHunt.)
- Ádám Szedlák: Új otthont kaptak az őshonlapok (The ancient websites got a new home). origo.hu, 2009-11-02. (About Geocities.)
- Ádám Szedlák: Megmentik az őshonlapokat (They are saving the ancient websites). origo.hu, 2009-05-13. (About Geocities.)
- Sándor Berta: Archiválják a GeoCities-tartalmakat (They archive GeoCities' contents). sg.hu, 2009-05-04.