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Description:
Web Archiving Integration Layer: One-Click User Instigated Preservation
Type: Cask  |  Latest Version: 0.2025.03.03@0  |  Tracked Since: Dec 28, 2025
Links: Homepage  |  @machawk1  |  formulae.brew.sh
Category: Developer tools
Tags: web-archiving preservation heritrix wayback research
Install: brew install --cask wail
About:
WAIL (Web Archiving Integration Layer) provides a graphical user interface for managing and executing web archiving tools like Heritrix and Wayback. It simplifies the process of capturing, storing, and replaying websites for digital preservation. The tool is designed for researchers, librarians, and archivists who need a streamlined workflow for preserving web content.
Key Features:
  • One-click web archiving workflow
  • GUI management for Heritrix crawlers
  • Integrated Wayback Machine interface
  • Cross-platform desktop application
Use Cases:
  • Academic researchers preserving web sources for citations
  • Librarians archiving local government or community websites
  • Digital archivists creating snapshots of ephemeral web content
Alternatives:
  • ArchiveBox – CLI-focused self-hosted archiving solution vs WAIL's GUI-first desktop approach
  • BrowserBuilt-in Save – Basic single-page saving vs WAIL's comprehensive crawl and replay capabilities
Version History
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Jul 7, 2024 11:52pm 0.2019.05.21 0 VERSION_BUMP 4bd6f2dd
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