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profiles: use a fixed profile dir instead of creating a new temp dir on each load (#858)
- Avoid accumulation of temp profile dirs if crawler is restarted
multiple times, eg. if tmp dir is mapped to `/crawls` (as is in
Browsertrix now), this prevents a proliferation of
`/crawls/tmp/profile-*` dirs for each crawler restart.
- Since profile is loaded each time, clear out existing profile dir.
- bump to 1.6.4
2025-07-03 19:03:46 -07:00
.github/workflows ci: fixes to deploy ci workflow 2025-04-03 23:36:49 -07:00
.husky Add MKDocs documentation site for Browsertrix Crawler 1.0.0 (#494) 2024-03-16 14:59:32 -07:00
config/policies more dependency updates: (#827) 2025-05-05 10:08:59 -07:00
docs version: bump to 1.6.3 (#851) 2025-06-16 15:55:05 -04:00
html Dynamically adjust reported aspect ratio based on GEOMETRY (#794) 2025-04-01 18:26:12 -07:00
src profiles: use a fixed profile dir instead of creating a new temp dir on each load (#858) 2025-07-03 19:03:46 -07:00
tests fix test 2025-07-03 11:47:39 -07:00
.dockerignore Add ad blocking via request interception (#173) 2022-11-15 18:30:27 -08:00
.eslintignore follow-up to #428: update ignore files (#431) 2023-11-09 17:13:53 -08:00
.eslintrc.cjs eslint: add strict await checking: (#684) 2024-09-06 16:24:18 -07:00
.gitignore Gracefully handle non-absolute path for create-login-profile --filename (#521) 2024-03-29 13:46:54 -07:00
.pre-commit-config.yaml Add Prettier to the repo, and format all the files! (#428) 2023-11-09 16:11:11 -08:00
.prettierignore follow-up to #428: update ignore files (#431) 2023-11-09 17:13:53 -08:00
.prettierrc Dynamically adjust reported aspect ratio based on GEOMETRY (#794) 2025-04-01 18:26:12 -07:00
CHANGES.md Add Prettier to the repo, and format all the files! (#428) 2023-11-09 16:11:11 -08:00
docker-compose.yml Add Prettier to the repo, and format all the files! (#428) 2023-11-09 16:11:11 -08:00
docker-entrypoint.sh clear out core dumps to avoid using up volume space: (#740) 2025-01-16 15:50:59 -08:00
Dockerfile deps: bump brave 1.79.118 (#845) 2025-06-03 12:52:07 -07:00
LICENSE initial commit after split from zimit 2020-10-31 13:16:37 -07:00
NOTICE initial commit after split from zimit 2020-10-31 13:16:37 -07:00
package.json profiles: use a fixed profile dir instead of creating a new temp dir on each load (#858) 2025-07-03 19:03:46 -07:00
README.md Add MKDocs documentation site for Browsertrix Crawler 1.0.0 (#494) 2024-03-16 14:59:32 -07:00
requirements.txt Separate writing pages to pages.jsonl + extraPages.jsonl to use with new py-wacz (#535) 2024-04-11 13:55:52 -07:00
test-setup.js Fix disk utilization computation errors (#338) 2023-07-05 21:58:28 -07:00
tsconfig.eslint.json eslint: add strict await checking: (#684) 2024-09-06 16:24:18 -07:00
tsconfig.json content-type compare for rewriting: use case-insensitive check (#849) 2025-06-16 11:09:44 -04:00
yarn.lock content-type compare for rewriting: use case-insensitive check (#849) 2025-06-16 11:09:44 -04:00

Browsertrix Crawler 1.x

Browsertrix Crawler is a standalone browser-based high-fidelity crawling system, designed to run a complex, customizable browser-based crawl in a single Docker container. Browsertrix Crawler uses Puppeteer to control one or more Brave Browser browser windows in parallel. Data is captured through the Chrome Devtools Protocol (CDP) in the browser.

For information on how to use and develop Browsertrix Crawler, see the hosted Browsertrix Crawler documentation.

For information on how to build the docs locally, see the docs page.

Support

Initial support for 0.x version of Browsertrix Crawler, was provided by Kiwix. The initial functionality for Browsertrix Crawler was developed to support the zimit project in a collaboration between Webrecorder and Kiwix, and this project has been split off from Zimit into a core component of Webrecorder.

Additional support for Browsertrix Crawler, including for the development of the 0.4.x version has been provided by Portico.

License

AGPLv3 or later, see LICENSE for more details.