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grab-site vs Browsertrix Crawler: catalog facts
grab-site	Browsertrix Crawler
Free Free and open source from ArchiveTeam.	Free Free to use; the source is published on GitHub by Webrecorder.
Linux, Command line	Command line
Writes standard WARC archives Live dashboard for watching crawls	Captures pages through a real browser rather than raw HTML Writes standard WARC and WACZ archive files
Command-line setup aimed at technical users Not a general-purpose file download manager	Aimed at technical users rather than casual downloading Output needs a web archive viewer to replay
Downloadable app	Downloadable app
Open source	Open source
License not stated	License not stated
No account needed	Not stated if an account is needed
Not stated if it works offline	Not stated if it works offline
Official website Full listing and sources Checked October 2, 2026	Official website Full listing and sources Checked October 2, 2026

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