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Download complete websites with all resources (images, CSS, JavaScript, fonts)\n- **🔄 Multiple Engines** - Choose between standard requests, Selenium, or Playwright for perfect captures\n- **📚 Bulk Archive** - Download multiple websites at once with the batch processor\n- **🔍 Content Search** - Find exactly what you need with full text search across your archives\n- **🏷️ Tagging System** - Organize websites with custom tags for efficient categorization\n- **📝 Notes \u0026 Annotations** - Add context with your own notes for each saved website\n- **✏️ Built-in Editor** - Modify archived content directly within the application\n- **📦 Import/Export** - Share your archives with others or back them up securely\n\n## 🔧 Installation\n\n### Prerequisites\n\n- Python 3.7 or higher\n- PyQt6\n- Internet connection for downloading websites\n\n### Method 1: Using pip (Recommended)\n\n```bash\n# Install from PyPI\npip install website-archiver\n\n# Launch the application\nwebsite-archiver\n```\n\n### Method 2: From Source\n\n```bash\n# Clone the repository\ngit clone https://github.com/Oliverwebdev/WebArchiver\ncd website-archiver\n\n# Create and activate virtual environment (recommended)\npython -m venv venv\n\n# On Windows\nvenv\\Scripts\\activate\n\n# On macOS/Linux\nsource venv/bin/activate\n\n# Install requirements\npip install -r requirements.txt\n\n# Run the application\npython main.py\n```\n\n### Optional Dependencies\n\nFor the best archiving experience, install additional engines:\n\n```bash\n# For Playwright support (recommended for complex websites)\npip install playwright\nplaywright install chromium\n\n# For Selenium support\npip install selenium\n```\n\n## 📖 User Guide\n\n### Archiving Your First Website\n\n1. Launch Website Archiver\n2. Go to the **Download** tab\n3. Enter the URL you want to archive\n4. Select your preferred download options\n5. Click **Download**\n6. Your archived website will appear in the **Home** tab\n\n### Managing Your Archives\n\n- **Search**: Use the search bar to find websites by title, URL, or content\n- **Filter by Tags**: Select a tag from the dropdown to filter related websites\n- **Edit Website**: Click \"Edit\" to modify the website's content, tags, or properties\n- **Add Notes**: Record your thoughts or context about why you archived the site\n- **Export**: Share your archives with others using the export functionality\n\n### Customizing Your Experience\n\nVisit the **Settings** tab to configure:\n- Storage location for your archives\n- Default download engine\n- Resource options (images, CSS, JS, fonts)\n- Timeout and concurrency settings\n- And much more!\n\n## ⚙️ Technical Details\n\nWebsite Archiver intelligently captures web content using a multi-step process:\n\n1. **Analysis**: Evaluates the target website structure\n2. **Download**: Retrieves HTML content using the selected engine\n3. **Resource Collection**: Gathers linked resources (images, styles, scripts)\n4. **Path Rewriting**: Modifies resource paths to work offline\n5. **Storage**: Organizes content in a structured filesystem\n6. **Indexing**: Catalogs the archive in the searchable database\n\nThe application architecture includes:\n- `config_manager.py`: Manages application configuration\n- `database_manager.py`: Handles SQLite database operations\n- `scraper.py`: Core web scraping functionality\n- `session_manager.py`: Manages application state between sessions\n- `ui/`: PyQt6-based user interface components\n\n## 🛠️ Development\n\nWant to contribute to Website Archiver? Great! We welcome contributions of all kinds.\n\n### Setting Up Development Environment\n\n1. Fork the repository\n2. Clone your fork: `git clone `https://github.com/Oliverwebdev/WebArchiver\n3. Create a virtual environment: `python -m venv venv`\n4. Activate it and install dev dependencies: `pip install -r requirements-dev.txt`\n5. Make your changes and submit a pull request!\n\n## 📜 License\n\nThis project is licensed under the MIT License - see the [LICENSE](LICENSE) file for details.\n\n## 🙏 Acknowledgements\n\n- [Beautiful Soup](https://www.crummy.com/software/BeautifulSoup/) for HTML parsing\n- [PyQt](https://riverbankcomputing.com/software/pyqt/) for the GUI framework\n- [Requests](https://requests.readthedocs.io/) for HTTP functionality\n- [Selenium](https://selenium-python.readthedocs.io/) and [Playwright](https://playwright.dev/) for browser automation\n- All the open source contributors who made this project possible\n\n## 🤝 Support\n\nIf you find Website Archiver useful, please consider:\n- Star the repository on GitHub\n- Reporting issues or suggesting features\n- Contributing code or documentation improvements\n- Sharing the project with others\n\n\n\u003cdiv align=\"center\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWebsite Archiver\u003c/strong\u003e - Because the web is too important to lose.\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003c/div\u003e","project_url":"https://awesome.ecosyste.ms/api/v1/projects/github.com%2Foliverwebdev%2Fwebarchiver","html_url":"https://awesome.ecosyste.ms/projects/github.com%2Foliverwebdev%2Fwebarchiver","lists_url":"https://awesome.ecosyste.ms/api/v1/projects/github.com%2Foliverwebdev%2Fwebarchiver/lists"}