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One thing I am wondering with current web archiving: are there any new approaches for how to deal with social media content?
I mean this problem:
Platforms are full of scripts. We use automated browsing to trigger those scripts and record them in a format to replay them. ( #webrecorder #browsertrix etc.). Which makes sense from a historian's point of view, you record the info in its media format. But often the scripts don't replay, we don't see the content.
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We could say on the other end are screenshots of individual posts, which then can't be searched. But at least they can't get lost in script replays.
So why don't we focus on the middle road. Transform the feeds into static html (something like "print as html" similiar to "print as pdf" comes to mind.) For this we need to manipulate the scripts, keep those that load posts, and block those that unload (I tried this once for instagram, it works).
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