Hi,
 We've been working on a tool to help manage warc files after you have
piles of them. It supports basic searching and content browsing. We've done
some testing up to ~10Tb of warc files and it's still fairly responsive.

https://wiki.umiacs.umd.edu/adapt/index.php/WarcManager

-Mike

On Wed, Nov 23, 2011 at 11:46 PM, Erik Hetzner <[log in to unmask]>wrote:

> At Wed, 23 Nov 2011 18:30:02 -0500,
> Edward M. Corrado wrote:
> >
> > Hello All,
> >
> > I need to harvest a few Web sites in order to preserve them. I'd
> > really like to preserve them using the WARC file format [1] since it
> > is a standard for digital preservation. I looked at I looked at Web
> > Curator Tool (WCT) and Heritrix and they seem to be good at what they
> > do but are built to work on a much larger scale then what I'd like to
> > do -- and that comes with a cost of increased complexity. Tools like
> > wget are simple to use and can easily be scripted to accomplish my
> > limited task, except the standard wget and similar tools I am familiar
> > with do not support WARC. Also, I haven't been able to find a tool
> > that can convert zipped files created with wget to WARC.
> >
> > I did find a version of wget with warc support built in [1] from the
> > Archive Team so that may be my solution, but compile software with
> > "dirty" written into the name of the zip file is maybe not the best
> > longterm solution. Does anyone know of any other simples tool to
> > create a WARC file (either from harvesting or converting a wget or
> > similar mirror/archive)?
>
> Hi Edward,
>
> The WCT uses Heritrix behind the scenes. Basically Heritrix or
> wget+warc are your only two solutions, unless you convert to WARC from
> something else. And I have never seen another crawler that gathers the
> information that needs to do into the WARC file.
>
> Heritrix isn’t that bad to get up & running. The more tricky issue is
> what to do with the WARC files once you have them.
>
> best, Erik
>
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>
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