A web archiver that runs on your machine. Save snapshots of websites and browse them later, offline, the way they looked on the day you saved them.
- Archive any website with one command
- Browse previous versions of pages you've saved
- Nothing leaves your computer. No cloud, no uploads, no telemetry
- Multiple domains in one snapshot
- Recursive scraping (follows links to grab whole sites)
- Automatic favicon capture from page
<head> - High-contrast mode support (follows OS accessibility settings)
- Dark mode follows system preferences
From crates.io:
cargo install webchronicleFrom source:
git clone https://github.com/freshjuice-dev/webchronicle.git
cd webchronicle
cargo build --releasegit clone https://github.com/freshjuice-dev/webchronicle.git
cd webchronicle
cargo build --release
./target/release/webchronicle init
# edit webchronicle.toml, add your URLs
./target/release/webchronicle scrape
./target/release/webchronicle build
./target/release/webchronicle serve --port 3000Edit webchronicle.toml:
Option 1: let webChronicle find the sitemap
[site]
title = "webChronicle"
description = "A web archiver that runs on your machine"
base_url = "https://webchronicle.app"
[scraper]
urls = ["https://example.com"]
recursive = true
max_depth = 3webChronicle tries common sitemap locations (/sitemap.xml, /sitemap_index.xml, /wp-sitemap.xml, etc.). If found, it scrapes every URL listed. If not, it falls back to recursive link crawling.
Option 2: point to a sitemap directly
[site]
title = "webChronicle"
description = "A web archiver that runs on your machine"
base_url = "https://webchronicle.app"
[scraper]
urls = ["https://example.com/sitemap.xml"]
recursive = falseWhen the URL itself is a sitemap, webChronicle parses it and scrapes every page listed. No guessing, no crawling.
Snapshots land in scraped-websites/ with a timestamp folder per domain, plus a ledger.toml index:
scraped-websites/
├── 2025-01-15T10-30-00/
│ ├── example.com/
│ │ ├── index.html
│ │ └── favicon.png
│ └── example.org/
│ └── index.html
└── ledger.toml
Snapshot files stay clean. The overlay (archive date, back link) is injected by the server when serving, not baked into the HTML. Copy a snapshot folder, get the original page.
Rust binary. Tera templates for the index page. System fonts, no frameworks.
See CONTRIBUTING.md. External contributions require the CLA.
Copyright (C) 2024-2026 FreshJuice. Released under AGPL v3 or later.
Need a commercial license? Contact contact@freshjuice.dev.