Chromebot
chromebot aka. crocoite is an IRC bot parallel to ArchiveBot that uses Google Chrome and thus is able to archive JavaScript-heavy and bottomless websites. Both, software and bot, are maintained by User:PurpleSymphony. WARCs are uploaded daily to the chromebot collection on archive.org.
By default the bot only grabs a single URL. However it supports recursion, which is rather slow, since every single page needs to be loaded and rendered by a browser. A dashboard is available for watching the progress of such jobs.
Usage
crocoite usage documentation on GitHub
You can call chromebot on the #archivebot (on hackint) IRC channel, which chromebot shares with ArchiveBot. Both “chromebot” and “chromebot:” work, with or without the colon.
| Command | Description |
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Archive <url> with <concurrency> processes according to recursion <policy>. |
chromebot: s <uuid>chromebot s <uuid> |
Get job status for <uuid>. |
chromebot: r <uuid>chromebot r <uuid> |
Revoke or abort running job with <uuid>. |
Please note that the commands are case-sensitive.
Restrictions
Instagram.com
chromebot has been blacklisted by Instagram. When trying to archive any Instagram.com website, chromebot responds with the following error:
<Instagram.com URL> cannot be queued: Banned by Instagram
Cloudflare DDoS protection
chromebot should be able to circumvent Cloudflare's DDoS protection, but scrolling and other behaviour may be disabled after the reload (issue #13 on GitHub).