diff --git a/README.md b/README.md index 8745fa1d..3731723d 100644 --- a/README.md +++ b/README.md @@ -88,6 +88,12 @@ By default it does everything, but can disable or tweak individual options via e The archiving is additive, so you can schedule `./archive` to run regularly and pull new links into the index. All the saved content is static and indexed with JSON files, so it lives forever & is easily parseable, it requires no always-running backend. +### Related Projects + +There are tons of great web archiving tools out there. In particular https://Webrecorder.io (pywb) and https://getpolarized.io/ are robust, stable pieces of software that have lots of overlap with ArchiveBox. ArchiveBox differentiates itself by being primarily a one-shot CLI tool that specializing in importing streams of links from RSS, JSON (good for automatically archiving from a stream of browser history or bookmarks on a schedule), as opposed to a desktop application or web service that requires human interaction to add links. + +To learn more about the motivation for this project and how it fits into the broader community, see our [Web Archiving Community](https://github.com/pirate/ArchiveBox/wiki/Web-Archiving-Community) wiki page. + # Documentation