btrix

tl;dr btrix is a bring-your-own-model chat interface for web archiving I’ve been experimenting recently with a chat interface to the browsertrix-crawler software. If you haven’t seen it before, browsertrix-crawler is an excellent tool for creating high-fidelity archival snapshots of web pages and websites. It has many, many options, and the browsertrix service provides a full user interface to managing one or many browsertrix-crawler jobs. So why would you ever want to operate browsertrix-crawler with a chat interface? I guess the main reason is that you may feel ike its overkill to bring up and run a browsertrix instance for the type of job you are doing. Another is that perhaps you would like to explore the options for archiving a website, including developing a custom behavior for clicking on parts of the pages. The chat interface can also give you a more iterative way to discover the many affordances that browsertrix-crawler makes available for web archiving, in the context of…

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