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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 > > Sent from my free software system <http://fsf.org/>. > >