Dev/Source Code

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The warrior uses the following repos:

Client code

Client code includes code that the Warrior executes.

warrior-preseed - shell

For constructing the warrior virtual appliance image

warrior-code2 - shell

Bootstrap code that is pulled from GitHub by the appliance

seesaw-kit - Python

Library that helps build grab scripts, the web interface, and pipeline engine for the warrior. The name "seesaw" comes from its original behavior: download, upload, and repeat.

Projects

Projects are in separate repositories typically with the name -grab as a suffix.

Server code

Server code includes code that the Tracker executes.

universal-tracker - Ruby

The server of which the Seesaw contacts

warrior-hq - Ruby

The server of which the warrior appliances contact for project metadata

archiveteam-megawarc-factory - shell

The scripts that bundles the WARC files.

URLTeam code

URLTeam code is independent from the tracker and warrior.

tinyback

The client code that scrapes the shortlinks. It includes a pipeline shim to run the code.

tinyarchive

The server code for the tracker.

Misc

warrior-dockerfile

Dockerfile that runs the warrior inside a Docker container.

ArchiveBot - Ruby, Python, Lua

An IRC bot for archiving websites.

wget-lua - C, Lua

A patched version of Wget for web crawling.

standalone-readme-template - Markdown

A template for readme files included in grab repositories.

archiveteam-dev-env - Shell

Ubuntu preseed for a developer environment for ArchiveTeam projects.

Developer Documentation

• Infrastructure overview
• Source code repositories
• Warrior overview
• Starting a new project
• Writing Seesaw grab scripts
• Setting up a tracker
• Setting up Rsync and Megawarc Factory
• Project management and leadership