You have the favorites function in your browser to save useful websites for later. But you must be online and the website must still be up and running if you want to visit the site again. You can save websites offline, so that you can always consult them as your own archive. We will work with Webrecorder for this.
1 Account
With Web Recorder it is possible to save websites offline. You can then quietly view the website in your browser or with a desktop app offline and browse through it as you recorded it yourself. You can get started at www.webrecorder.io. Although it is not mandatory, it is useful to first create an account on the website. You then get 5 GB of storage space for free to store your web recordings online, if that's convenient for you. Click on the top right to do so Sign up and fill in the requested information.
2 Collections
Recordings on webrecorder.io can be divided into collections, so that you can easily organize and find them. A collection is a collection of website recordings. Click on the top right My Collections to view your collections. By default there is only one Default Collection. Click on it to see the recordings in a collection. You create a new collection by clicking on the My Collections page New Collection. For example, enter the name of the category or website you want to include and click Create. You can optionally make a collection public to share your collection with someone else.
3 Recording
Now that we have our first collection, we can start recording a website. Click on the button in your collection New Bee recordings. You can then type in the website you want to include at the top. Next to it you will find a button (native) Chrome. Here you can choose which browser you want to use: Chrome or Firefox. click on Start to start recording and browse to the url or pages you'd like to save. Your session is saved continuously, so don't worry if you accidentally land on another page.
4 Login
The handy thing about Web Recorder is that you can also log in as normal and safely record the data that is only visible after logging in after logging in. For example, if you want to have something from a social medium in your archive, you simply log in to Twitter or Facebook, for example, and browse to the relevant page. This is then automatically saved and included. Web Recorder does not store any information from the password field, so you can enter your passwords safely. You can also, for example, open a Google Docs document and include it in a recording.
5 Scrolling
During a recording session, it is important that you scroll a page. Sometimes elements of a web page only load when they come into view thanks to JavaScript. It is also useful for websites with an infinite list of items; the ones that keep adding items when you are (almost) at the end. Web recorder only saves things when you actually see them. For such situations you can select the option autoscroll to use. For videos and gifs: click on the play button, after which they will also be included and saved in the recording session. When you're done, right click Finish and come back to the Collections-page.
6 Play
To play your recording you just made in the browser, click on a bookmark in the list and the recorded page will open. This time it doesn't happen from the website itself, but everything you see is served directly from webrecorder.io. You can use the arrows next to the URL of the recorded site on the web page to browse through your recording. By choosing Replay you see more options. Here you can include this url again, patch the url (so that new data may be downloaded or if something went wrong) or include the url again.
