Recommend a screenshot archiving service . . .
November 9, 2010 12:09 PM Subscribe
Screenshot archiving service suggestions wanted. Need a solution to capture and archive website screenshots online to compare year over year.
I'm looking for a screenshot archiving service - specifically for websites. Ideally, I want to be able to take automated screen caps of certain urls, and have the images stored over time. I'd also like to be able to set up manual capturing, if someone wants a screenshot outside the scheduled time period that they can do it manually. The files must be easy to go through as the people involved in using it and maintaining it aren't highly technical. I found this askme: http://ask.metafilter.com/48610/Daily-webpage-snapshot but it really needs to be a service, not something run on a local machine.
So far, I've only found http://www.website-archive.com/. However, I am not sure it will fit my needs - they suggest they only hold images online for a year. I have a hard time believing it's the only company to do this so maybe my google fu is off.
I'm looking for a screenshot archiving service - specifically for websites. Ideally, I want to be able to take automated screen caps of certain urls, and have the images stored over time. I'd also like to be able to set up manual capturing, if someone wants a screenshot outside the scheduled time period that they can do it manually. The files must be easy to go through as the people involved in using it and maintaining it aren't highly technical. I found this askme: http://ask.metafilter.com/48610/Daily-webpage-snapshot but it really needs to be a service, not something run on a local machine.
So far, I've only found http://www.website-archive.com/. However, I am not sure it will fit my needs - they suggest they only hold images online for a year. I have a hard time believing it's the only company to do this so maybe my google fu is off.
Response by poster: Thanks for the suggestion, I'll have to look into it. Thus far, archive.org's standard archiving isn't good enough, it doesn't update frequently enough to be useful, but I'll have to investigate their archive-it service. Another potential problem is the need to archive competitors sites, and I know that the regular archive.org service can be blocked by robots. Still, this is worth investigating.
posted by [insert clever name here] at 3:33 AM on November 13, 2010
posted by [insert clever name here] at 3:33 AM on November 13, 2010
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from the site:
Archive-It allows institutions to build and preserve their own web archive of digital content, through a user friendly web application, without requiring any technical expertise or hosting facilities. Subscribers can harvest, catalog, and archive their collections, and then search and browse the collections when complete. Collections are hosted at the Internet Archive data center, and accessible to the public with full text search.
posted by d4nj450n at 1:20 PM on November 9, 2010