How To Initiate A Capture Session

After creating (or choosing) a web archive, there are two ways you can initiate a capture session.

Choose an option:

• Capture directly from extension
• Capture from archiveweb.page

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Capture directly from extension

QUICK INSTRUCTIONS

1. Select the website you want to capture
2. Click on the ArchiveWeb.page Chrome extension
3. Click on START
4. Click on assets (videos, links, pages, etc) that you want archived.

INSTRUCTIONS (WITH IMAGES)

Scenario: “I want to capture the webrecorder website”

Select the website you want to capture: I want to archive the website, https://webrecorder.net/ so I go to that website in my Chrome browser.

Click on the Archiveweb.page Chrome extension: In this scenario, I have the archiveweb.page extension pinned on the top right corner of my Chrome browser. When I click it, I can see the interface.

Click on START: I click the START button that is there and it will initiate my capture session!

Click on assets (videos, links, pages, etc) that you want archived

For a breakdown on how to capture using archiveweb.page, go to the During Capture Session section of this user guide. If you’re archiving sites that have infinite scroll especially social media sites like Twitter, Instagram or Facebook, you can try using the Autopilot feature

Capture from archiveweb.page site

QUICK INSTRUCTIONS

1. Choose the collection you want to capture to
2. Click on the RECORD button
3. Insert the website you want to capture
4. Click GO to initiate capture session
5. Click on assets (videos, links, pages, etc) that you want archived.

INSTRUCTIONS (WITH IMAGES)

Scenario: “I want to capture the webrecorder website”

You’ll want to be on your archiveweb.page site as shown in the image below. Going to archiveweb.page will take you to your archives pages. You can also get here by clicking the Home button from the extension.

Select collection: To record to the web archive collection you want, click on the RECORD button on that row. The webrecorder record button is blue! From your web archives page, the record button is under Actions (bottom image).

Prep Collection: Make sure that the collection is correct (where is says “Archive To”). You can swap out www.example.com with the website you want to capture.

Click GO: You can see, I’ve swapped www.example.com to http://webrecorder.net/. And click GO. Archiveweb.page will start and take you to the webpage.

Click on assets (videos, links, pages, etc) that you want archived

For a breakdown on how to capture using archiveweb.page, go to the During Capture Session section of this user guide. If you’re archiving sites that have infinite scroll, or social media sites like Twitter, Instagram or Facebook, you can try using the new Autopilot feature

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