beth (defunct)

You can run an Archive Team container on your computer! It'll help crawl the web and putting stuff into archive.org, based on the current projects.

You don't have to be super technical to do this, but a little computer skill will help you out.

Walkthrough below the cut (tl;dr docker compose + this config, or a vm from here):

The official docs are here and explain how to use a VM: https://wiki.archiveteam.org/index.php/ArchiveTeam_Warrior

Below I'll try to explain how I used docker, since that's how I did it

Note that the example I used below adds a little extra stuff to make sure DNS requests are cached and use a resolver that doesn't filter requests that the main docs don't do.¹

Prerequisites

• Extra bandwidth²
• A computer³
• Docker and Docker Compose installed on the computer
  • Download page
  • Install docs for Desktop edition: Windows, Mac, Linux
• Able to run commands in your terminal

Setup

1. Make a file named docker-compose.yml on your computer.
2. Copy + Paste this configuration into it
3. Optionally, uncomment⁴ and update fields to your preferences, such as:

• DOWNLOADER=Your Cool Username for the Leaderboards
• HTTP_USERNAME and HTTP_PASSWORD to add a basic login page for the tool
• volumes: ... This will let the container store stuff on your disk for use between container restarts. You need to replace the path before the colon with a local directory. If you don't know what this means, just ignore it. :)

Running

1. Open a terminal
2. Move to the directory where you saved docker-compose.yml

• e.g. cd /home/name/some_folder/

1. Run sudo docker compose up -d bind watchtower at_warrior

• Some installations you need a hyphen in docker-compose

Usage

1. Open a browser on the same computer this is running
2. Go to http://localhost:8010
3. You should see a website like this running on your machine:

That's it! There's more settings you can dink with, including which project it should run (it will pick one automatically by default), or just close the page and rest happy knowing you're helping backup dying websites before they go offline.

FAQ

• Are you affiliated with Archive Team?
  • No! I just run a container like I described above on my computer.

Footnotes

1. I did try to submit this to the official wiki page, but it's awaiting approval.

2. If you find yourself often struggling to stream video, running this on the same network will make it even harder to stream video, since this will do a lot of downloading and uploading.

3. Ideally, the computer will be one that's always powered on, or at least most of the time. Probably not a laptop. Your laptop will get hot and the battery will die fast.

4. If the line starts with a #, it's a "comment". For it to be used, you need to remove the # and make sure the spaces still line up.