Web Archive Player Changelog

What's new in Web Archive Player 1.4.7

Nov 18, 2016
  • Encoding fix: read all config files and window desc html as utf-8.

New in Web Archive Player 1.4.6 (Nov 14, 2016)

  • Update to pywb 0.33.1.
  • Support for auto-loading WARC/ARCs from a specified directory on start-up.

New in Web Archive Player 1.4.5 (Sep 21, 2016)

  • Improved support for reading pages/bookmarks from all WARCs created by Webrecorder.
  • Rewriting improvements using pywb 0.32.1.

New in Web Archive Player 1.4.1 (May 4, 2016)

  • Improved handling of WARC files with non-http records, which will now be ignored.

New in Web Archive Player 1.4.0 (May 4, 2016)

  • Updated to upcoming pywb 0.30.0 (though built with Python 2 due to Pyinstaller issues)
  • When building from source, can be run with Python 2.6+, 3.4+
  • Latest rewriting improvements, re-enable reading page list from WARC (such as from webrecorder.io WARCs) if available.

New in Web Archive Player 1.3.0 (Jan 14, 2016)

  • Multiple WebArchivePlayer instances can now be started, with a new port picked for each one if the default port (8090) is not available.
  • Error msg displayed if WARC is unreadable.
  • Improved replay from pywb 0.11.1

New in Web Archive Player 1.2.0 (Jan 14, 2016)

  • In addition to loading WARCs on the fly, WebArchivePlayer can now run any existing pywb configuration, if it is placed in a directory containing a pywb config.yaml file or if an archive subdirectory (with config.yaml) exists next to WebArchivePlayer.
  • If such a config.yaml file is present, certain settings such as the title page can be customized in the webarchiveplayer section of config.yaml. See README for details.

New in Web Archive Player 1.1.4 (Jan 14, 2016)

  • Update to pywb 0.10.8 replay system.
  • Additional replay improvements for dynamic content, almost all 'live leaks' (content not loaded from archive issues) eliminated (except Flash and Websockets).

New in Web Archive Player 1.1.3 (Jan 14, 2016)

  • Offline web archive replay!
  • Supports latest pywb (0.10.6) with many improvements for replay of dynamic content.
  • Fully compatible with WARCs created by https://webrecorder.io and https://beta.webrecorder.io/

New in Web Archive Player 1.1.2 (Jan 14, 2016)

  • Fix issue with opening files with different extensions at same time. Any combination of .arc, .warc, .warc.gz, .arc.gz files can be opened.
  • Improved docs for building locally, including wxPython install check.

New in Web Archive Player 1.1.1 (Jan 14, 2016)

  • Update to WebArchivePlayer using latest pywb 0.8.3, includes improved replay support for international domain and improved self-redirect detection.

New in Web Archive Player 1.1.0 (Jan 14, 2016)

  • Support opening multiple WARC/ARC files at once.
  • Also fixed issue with opening files with spaces in filename.