Ilya Kreymer
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update to latest sw, ensure OPTIONS is not indexed as mentioned in webrecorder/pywb#569 ensure plugins-* directories are excluded from git and from jekyll bump version to 1.0.1-alpha.0
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layout: default
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title: Exploring Web Archives
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nav_order: 2
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parent: About
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permalink: /docs/exploring
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---
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## Exploring Archives (Browse, Search and Replay)
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The ReplayWeb.page homepage lists an index of all loaded archives. You can also search by archive title or source
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and filter by date loaded or title.
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Once loaded, the archive remains cached in the browser for quick access. This view will be unique to your browser.
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To remove the archive from your browser, click on the 'X'. (Of course, this does not delete the archive from its original location, only your local copy of it)
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### Archive Views
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Although primarily designed for replay, ReplayWeb.page also offers several ways to interact with web archives.
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The archive view presents several tabs:
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- **Story** - This Story view presents lists of curated pages, as developed by the creator of the web archive.
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This option is only shown if there is a curated story. As curated lists are not a standard part of WARC, only WARCs exported from Webrecorder.io/Conifer can have this option.
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The new [Web Archive Collection (WACZ)](wacz-format) can also include curated lists.
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- **Pages** - The Pages view presents all pages in the web archive. As pages are not a standard part of WARC format,
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generally only WARCs from Webrecorder.io/Conifer will have pages.
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The new [Web Archive Collection (WACZ)](wacz-format) can also store pages.
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- **Page Resources** - This view allows searching the archive by URLs, as well as by common MIME type.
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For many archives with no page or curatorial metadata, this is a way to explore the archive data in more detail.
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This view is available for all archives that only store raw data.
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- **Replay** - The view presents a replay of the archived web content in a mini-browser directly your browser. The view allows entering a URL directly. Clicking on links on any of the other views will switch to the **Replay** view.
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### Search
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Both the Page Resources view provide ways to search the archive directly.
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#### Searching Page Resources
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Page Resources allows searching by URL only, with additional sorting options.
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Searches can be done by exact url, by url prefix, or by any string contained in the URL.
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The URL Prefix option is best for searching large archives that require on-demand loading.
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The contains option will not find any URLs that have not yet been loaded.
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#### Searching Pages
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The Page view search includes page titles, urls and page full text search, if available.
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ReplayWeb.page will currently generate full ext search data from WARC pages automatically.
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ReplayWeb.page will soon load existing extracted full-text data as well.
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<hr>
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Next: [Sharing Links to Archived Pages](sharing.md)
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