# ArchiveTeam/grab-site

The archivist's web crawler: WARC output, dashboard for all crawls, dynamic ignore patterns

Repository: https://github.com/ArchiveTeam/grab-site
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/grab-site
Language: Python
License: NOASSERTION
License Family: other
Topics: archiving, crawl, spider, crawler, warc
Last push: 2025-05-23T09:57:06+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 43/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-02T17:46:02.011165+00:00)
- activity 23, release rhythm 35, longevity 100
- inputs: {"age_days": 4227, "days_push": 467, "days_rel": null, "gap_med": null, "n_releases_24m": 0}
- flags: no_releases, no_license
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 1607, forks 156 (observed 2026-08-28T04:05:10.543299+00:00)

## What it is
grab-site is a preconfigured web crawler for archiving websites, producing WARC files via a fork of wpull. It includes a dashboard for monitoring all crawls, dynamic ignore patterns, and duplicate page detection.

## Use cases
- back up an entire website to WARC files
- crawl a site recursively for archiving
- monitor multiple crawls from a dashboard
- add ignore patterns to a running crawl to skip junk URLs
- archive large sites with millions of pages

## When to choose
- you need WARC-standard web archives
- you want a preconfigured crawler with sensible defaults
- you need to adjust ignore rules mid-crawl
- you're doing web preservation or Archive Team-style archiving

## When to avoid
- you need a lightweight programmable scraping library rather than a full crawler
- you need a Python version other than 3.7/3.8 with pinned dependencies
- you need fine-grained custom crawl logic or API integration
- you only need to fetch a few pages rather than crawl a whole site

## Facets
- artifact type: cli-tool
- maturity: active
- function: web-scraping, cli, monitoring, analytics
- domain: crawlers, developer-tools, self-hosted
- platform: windows, python, cli
- tags: web-archiving, warc, crawler, archiveteam, backup, dashboard, linux, macos

## Member repositories
- ArchiveTeam/grab-site (main) score 43

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:05:10.543299+00:00.
- Health v2: computed from the inputs above; adoption is never an input.
- Inferred fields (summary, facets, guidance): AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, on 2026-08-30T03:51:35.526991+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/ArchiveTeam/grab-site (fetched 2026-08-28T04:05:10.543299+00:00, sha e0b209d3f11c)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.