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Purpose
Archive-It is a curator-controlled service that crawls, hosts, and provides access to web content, including video and social media.Read 8 Oct 2026 · support.archive-it.org
Audience
Archive-It serves cultural heritage and other mission-aligned organizations seeking to preserve digital collections.Read 8 Oct 2026 · archive-it.org
Trial
A 15-day trial is available with no financial obligation; its Brozzler tool can collect up to 10 GB at a time.Read 8 Oct 2026 · support.archive-it.org
Integrations
Archive-It offers APIs and access integrations, including the Partner API, CDX/C API, OpenSearch, and DuraCloud Archive-It Sync.Read 8 Oct 2026 · support.archive-it.org
Support
Accounts include access to tutorials, documentation, training, technical assistance, and support from Archive-It web archivists and engineers.Read 8 Oct 2026 · support.archive-it.org
Analytics
Partners can connect accounts to the Internet Archive’s self-hosted Plausible Analytics instance to view usage statistics for accounts, collections, and archived pages.Read 8 Oct 2026 · support.archive-it.org
Capture limitations
Forms and search boxes do not retain their functionality in archived pages, and some complex JavaScript applications may need engineering help.Read 8 Oct 2026 · support.archive-it.org
Collection tools
The service includes crawl scoping tools, metadata fields, ten capture frequencies, crawl reports, and quality assurance and reporting tools.Read 8 Oct 2026 · support.archive-it.org
Crawling
Subscribers can use Brozzler and/or Standard crawling technology to collect content from the live web.Read 8 Oct 2026 · support.archive-it.org
Data budget
The annual data budget resets at renewal, and captured data from crawls and uploaded WARCs counts toward it.Read 8 Oct 2026 · support.archive-it.org
Discovery and access
Collections support full-text and metadata search, and partners can make content public or restrict access to collections.Read 8 Oct 2026 · support.archive-it.org
Preservation
Archive-It stores web archive data in WARC format and maintains at least two verified copies in separate Internet Archive data centers.Read 8 Oct 2026 · support.archive-it.org
Robots.txt
The crawler respects robots.txt by default, with an option to ignore it on a host-by-host basis.Read 8 Oct 2026 · support.archive-it.org
Scale
Archive-It reports serving over 1,000 organizations in more than 40 countries since 2006.Read 8 Oct 2026 · archive-it.org
Subscription term
Subscriptions are annual and renewable, with levels determined by the amount of data to be captured during the year.Read 8 Oct 2026 · support.archive-it.org

Plans and prices

Archive-It annual subscription Priced on request Annual, renewable; request a quote Subscription level based on annual data budget · Quote based on collection needs Read 8 Oct 2026 · support.archive-it.org

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