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# How to Setup Your Own Wayback Machine with ArchiveBox
- URL: https://en.blog.themarfa.name/how-to-setup-your-own-wayback-machine-with-archivebox/
- Published: 2026-10-12T06:41:28.000Z
- Updated: 2026-10-12T06:41:28.000Z
- Description: Wayback Machine is a popular service that tries to save deleted and old data online. You may have thought you wanted to use it to back up some…
- Author: Konstantin Dokuchaev
- Tags: web, Windows, macos, linux, android, iOS, ArchiveBox

Wayback Machine is a popular service that tries to save deleted and old data on the network. You may have thought that you wanted to use it to back up some of your own resources. And there is such an option too.

To do this, you'll need the [**ArchiveBox**](https://archivebox.io/) service, which you can install on your server and automatically archive websites, RSS feeds, social media posts, multimedia, source code, and more. And store the archive in HTML, PDF, PNG, TXT, JSON, WARC, MP4, and SQLite.

Despite the fact that the site has a button to download the application for popular operating systems, a simple installation is not enough. At the very least, you need to install the server or desktop version and Docker for it to really run. And only then in the mobile versions, specify the address of your instance.

Cursor helped me with the installation, but I'll be honest that for advanced ArchiveBox setup, you need to dive into the topic yourself or work with Cursor for more than one session.

If you have completed the installation, you will be asked to create your account when you first go to the site.

![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/71/cf/71cf070c-b8aa-467e-9efd-cf18f7dcf253/content/images/2026/09/image-14.png)

But after that, you'll see a large canvas of text that shows your ArchiveBox settings. You can change them, but I didn't even bother to figure it out, so I left it at its default.

![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/71/cf/71cf070c-b8aa-467e-9efd-cf18f7dcf253/content/images/2026/09/image-15.png)

My ArchiveBox instance, despite this brazen approach, started without any problems, and I was able to use it.

To create a new Crawler, you need to click the **Add** button on the top panel and add all the necessary resources in a list or one by one. Again, you can run it with the default settings or dig into a couple of dozen parameters to configure the builder exactly as it is required for your task.

![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/71/cf/71cf070c-b8aa-467e-9efd-cf18f7dcf253/content/images/2026/09/CleanShot-2026-09-30-at-10.24.07@2x.png)

![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/71/cf/71cf070c-b8aa-467e-9efd-cf18f7dcf253/content/images/2026/09/CleanShot-2026-09-30-at-10.24.16@2x.png)

![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/71/cf/71cf070c-b8aa-467e-9efd-cf18f7dcf253/content/images/2026/09/CleanShot-2026-09-30-at-10.24.24@2x.png)

You can add tags, persona, depth of immersion when collecting data, enable or disable various plugins (captcha bypass, ad block, and more), specify how to process media, and other data.

Once configured, all that's left to do is run the collector, and depending on the amount of data, you'll get a local copy of the specified resources after a while.

![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/71/cf/71cf070c-b8aa-467e-9efd-cf18f7dcf253/content/images/2026/09/CleanShot-2026-09-30-at-10.24.34@2x-1.png)

![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/71/cf/71cf070c-b8aa-467e-9efd-cf18f7dcf253/content/images/2026/09/CleanShot-2026-09-30-at-10.28.04@2x-1.png)

![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/71/cf/71cf070c-b8aa-467e-9efd-cf18f7dcf253/content/images/2026/09/CleanShot-2026-09-30-at-10.28.29@2x-1.png)

[Try ArchiveBox](https://archivebox.io/)