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Wayback

A self-hosted toolkit for archiving webpages to the Internet Archive,

Backup & Recovery ★ 2.2k stars Medium setup GPL-3.0

A self-hosted toolkit for archiving webpages to the Internet Archive, archive.today, IPFS, and local file systems.

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Strengths

  • Released under the GPL-3.0 license
  • Active community (2.2k GitHub stars)
  • Written in Go
  • Lightweight — runs in 512 MB RAM

Is Wayback secure?

OSV.dev has no published security advisories for Wayback's repository. No known vulnerabilities is not proof of security: it means none have been publicly catalogued.

Source: OSV.dev, checked 2026-10-14. How this is measured.

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SelfHostIndex: 86 · excellent

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