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- **Doesn't require a constantly-running server**, proxy, or native app
- Easy to set up **[scheduled importing](https://github.com/pirate/ArchiveBox/wiki/Scheduled-Archiving) from multiple sources**
- Uses common, **durable, [long-term formats](#saves-lots-of-useful-stuff-for-each-imported-link)** like HTML, JSON, PDF, PNG, and WARC
- **Suitable for paywalled / [authenticated content](https://github.com/pirate/ArchiveBox/wiki/Configuration#chrome_user_data_dir)** (can use your cookies)
- ~~**Suitable for paywalled / [authenticated content](https://github.com/pirate/ArchiveBox/wiki/Configuration#chrome_user_data_dir)** (can use your cookies)~~ (do not do this until v0.4 is released with some security fixes)
- Can [**run scripts during archiving**](https://github.com/pirate/ArchiveBox/issues/51) to [scroll pages](https://github.com/pirate/ArchiveBox/issues/80), [close modals](https://github.com/pirate/ArchiveBox/issues/175), expand comment threads, etc.
- Can also [**mirror content to 3rd-party archiving services**](https://github.com/pirate/ArchiveBox/wiki/Configuration#submit_archive_dot_org) automatically for redundancy
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#### Private Local Archives vs Centralized Public Archives
Unlike crawler software that starts from a seed URL and works outwards, or public tools like Archive.org designed for users to manually submit links from the public internet, ArchiveBox tries to be a set-and-forget archiver suitable for archiving your entire browsing history, RSS feeds, or bookmarks, including private/authenticated content that you wouldn't otherwise share with a centralized service. Also by having each user store their own content locally, we can save much larger portions of everyone's browsing history than a shared centralized service would be able to handle.
Unlike crawler software that starts from a seed URL and works outwards, or public tools like Archive.org designed for users to manually submit links from the public internet, ArchiveBox tries to be a set-and-forget archiver suitable for archiving your entire browsing history, RSS feeds, or bookmarks, ~~including private/authenticated content that you wouldn't otherwise share with a centralized service~~ (do not do this until v0.4 is released with some security fixes). Also by having each user store their own content locally, we can save much larger portions of everyone's browsing history than a shared centralized service would be able to handle.
#### Storage Requirements