Thanks Kurt, Some of those pre-built utilities look interesting although they don't seem to solve my immediate problem. However, they should prove useful in the future. Edward On Wed, Nov 23, 2011 at 9:40 PM, Nordstrom, Kurt <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > Hi Edward, > > We're currently using the warc-tools library for WARC creation. It's written in Python, but there are a few pre-built utilities that come with the package that might suit your needs? > > http://code.hanzoarchives.com/warc-tools > > -Kurt > ________________________________________ > From: Code for Libraries [[log in to unmask]] on behalf of Edward M. Corrado [[log in to unmask]] > Sent: Wednesday, November 23, 2011 5:30 PM > To: [log in to unmask] > Subject: [CODE4LIB] Web archiving and WARC > > 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)? > > Edward > > [1] http://archiveteam.org/index.php?title=Wget_with_WARC_output >