ArchiveBox — Self-Hosted, Open-Source

Create HTML & screenshot archives of sites from your bookmarks, browsing history, RSS feeds, or other sources

License: MIT. Built with: Python, HTML, TypeScript, Shell, CSS, Dockerfile, JavaScript, Ruby, SCSS. Website: https://archivebox.io/. Source: https://github.com/ArchiveBox/ArchiveBox.

Features

Free & open source, own your own data & maintain your privacy by self-hosting
Powerful CLI with modular dependencies and support for Google Drive/NFS/SMB/S3/B2/etc.
Comprehensive documentation, active development, and rich community
Extracts a wide variety of content out-of-the-box: media (yt-dlp), articles (readability), code (git), etc.
Supports scheduled/realtime importing from many types of sources
Uses standard, durable, long-term formats like HTML, JSON, PDF, PNG, MP4, TXT, and WARC
Powerful CLI, self-hosted web UI, Python API (BETA), REST API (ALPHA), or desktop app
Saves all pages to archive.org as well by default for redundancy (can be disabled for local-only mode)
Advanced users: support for archiving content requiring login/paywall/cookies (see wiki security caveats!)
Planned: support for running JS during archiving to adblock, autoscroll, modal-hide, thread-expand

Installation

See official install docs: https://github.com/ArchiveBox/ArchiveBox/wiki

Why self-host ArchiveBox

Self-hosting gives you three things SaaS can’t: data ownership (the files live on disks you control), cost predictability (a one-time setup vs. recurring per-seat fees that grow with your household or team), and longevity (open-source means the app keeps working even if the maintainers move on, since you can pin a working version). The trade-off is that you take on the operational work of running a server, applying updates, and handling backups.

Hardware notes

ArchiveBox can use anywhere from ~1gb per 1000 Snapshots, to ~50gb per 1000 Snapshots, mostly dependent on whether you're saving video/audio using YTDLP_ENABLED=True and whether you lower YTDLP_MAX_SIZE=750m.

Where to go from here

Last verified: 2026-04-22