Website replay

Local Wayback-style replay is available through the REST server. JavaScript is not rewritten. For full Wombat/JS fidelity, export CDXJ and point pywb at the original WARCs.

Start local replay

pip install 'metawarc[replay]'   # or metawarc[api]
metawarc serve --dbfile collection.db
# Home page:  http://127.0.0.1:8000/
# Replay URL: http://127.0.0.1:8000/replay/<YYYYMMDDHHMMSS>mp_/https://example.com/
metawarc replay --dbfile collection.db   # alias of serve

Path	Purpose
/ or /replay	HTML index of archived hosts with Open links
/replay/sites	JSON list of hosts, entry URLs, and replay paths
/replay/<stamp>/<url>	Closest exact-URL capture; HTML/CSS rewritten by default
/replay/<stamp>mp_/<url>	Explicit rewritten mode
/replay/<stamp>id_/<url>	Raw identity mode (no rewrite or banner)

Capture selection uses the DuckDB catalog (exact URL, closest or exact timestamp). Rewritten HTML/CSS keeps the original charset (UTF-8, windows-1251, KOI8-R, and related declarations) and re-emits UTF-8 so Cyrillic and other non-ASCII text render correctly. The home page prefers an https://host/ 200 response over an http:// redirect when both exist.

Archived scripts may be hostile; keep the default loopback bind unless you configure a token or --allow-insecure.

Export CDXJ for pywb

metawarc export-cdxj --dbfile collection.db -o collection.cdxj --path-index paths.tsv

See serve, export-cdxj, and replay integration.