ArchiveBox v0.9 is now released. 🎉

It's been a long time since our last major release back in 2024! Thanks for hanging in there, but I promise this release was worth the wait!

↗️ ArchiveBox 0.9 brings an entirely new archiving engine, massive performance & stability gains, UI improvements, all-new mobile & desktop apps, and 50+ new plugins.

📖 Read the full Announcement Post ↗️

✨ The big changes

• 📱 NEW Native Mobile & Desktop Apps: iPhone / iPad / Android   |   macOS / Windows / Linux
• 🗂️ Redesigned output viewers: beautiful new viewers for article text, extracted video/audio, metadata + more
• 🧭 Vastly improved browser extension: import bookmarks/history, uploads local screenshot & MHTML
• 🐘 PostgreSQL support: SQLite remains the default, but we caved to demand and finally added PostgreSQL
• 🗓️ Scheduled crawls in the UI: schedule recurring import jobs directly from the UI, all in one Docker container
• 👤 Personas: archive sites logged-in using cookies & settings synced from extension, CDP, or local browsers
• 🤖 AI Tools: new MCP server, SKILL.md, and built-in agent (opencode) that can handle custom archiving tasks
• 🔏 Bulletproof chain-of-custody: new merkle hashes, TLSNotary attestation, and OpenTimestamps integration
• ⬇️ A new standalone oneshot CLI: abx-dl uses the same plugins without needing a full ArchiveBox server

🗂️ More useful saved pages

• Responsive layouts across phone, tablet, and desktop.
• Expandable output stacks group related capture formats together.
• Article and document readers for extracted text, including PDF extraction outputs.
• Media galleries and players for images, audio, video, and captured browser responses.
• Repository previews with a file browser and rendered README.
• Readable metadata views: redirects, headers, DNS, certificates, accessibility trees, browser activity, and console logs.
• View raw, download one output, browse all files, or download a snapshot ZIP.

🛠️ More ways to automate it

• Expanded REST API for crawls, snapshots, results, tags, users, tokens, and operational state.
• Pipeable JSONL CLI commands to create, read, update, delete, and enqueue model records.
• Webhooks for integrating archive events with other systems.
• Standalone abx-dl for one-shot downloads using the same plugin library, without a collection database or web server.

⬆️ Upgrading from 0.7.x

Make a full offsite backup of your archive before proceeding, and be aware 0.9 will move some data/ dir files to new filesystem locations. Filesystem migration is done lazily, and can be interrupted / resumed at will.

1. Stop the old server. docker compose down
2. Back up the entire collection: database, configuration, archive files, and browser Personas. A database-only backup isn't enough.
3. Install 0.9.x following the instructions for your platform. See https://archivebox.io
4. Run archivebox init to upgrade the database. Migrations can take minutes to hours depending on db size.
5. Run archivebox update --migrate-only to start migrating filesystem data to the new locations (if this step is skipped, it will happen lazily on first access and may slow down the UI)
6. Keep the backup until you've verified the final setup looks good!

For Docker Compose, update your docker-compose.yml (docker-compose.archivebox.io) first, then:

:::bash
docker compose run archivebox init
docker compose run archivebox update --migrate-only
docker compose down --remove-orphans
docker compose up -d

Upgrade Notes

• We now recommend >= 2GB RAM minimum, though it does still work (slowly) on smaller systems.
• Custom config should be moved out of docker-compose.yml environment: into data/ArchiveBox.conf: otherwise you wont be able to edit it via the new built-in Machine config admin UI
• Python >=3.13+ is now required if installing on bare metal.
• New filesystem layout for data/archive/ snapshot directories. Files will get auto-migrated on first access. data/archive/{timestamp} -> data/archive/users/{username}/snapshots/YYYYMMDD/example.com/{uuid}
• New DNS, SSL, and HTTPS serving requirements: For better security, wildcard subdomain support was added to isolate archived JS, but new DNS+TLS settings are needed (BASE_URL + SERVER_SECURITY_MODE).
• PostgreSQL support is added, ask your agent to help migrating data from SQLite if desired.

Upgrade guide · Merging collections · 🐛 Report an issue

A lot of what we promised in The Future of ArchiveBox is now here!

Read the full announcement →

Full Changelog: https://github.com/ArchiveBox/ArchiveBox/compare/v0.7.4...v0.9.36