Sunlight Labs

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Organization: Archive Team

Formed in 2009, the Archive Team (not to be confused with the archive.org Archive-It Team) is a rogue archivist collective dedicated to saving copies of rapidly dying or deleted websites for the sake of history and digital heritage. The group is 100% composed of volunteers and interested parties, and has expanded into a large amount of related projects for saving online and digital history.

History is littered with hundreds of conflicts over the future of a community, group, location or business that were "resolved" when one of the parties stepped ahead and destroyed what was there. With the original point of contention destroyed, the debates would fall to the wayside. Archive Team believes that by duplicated condemned data, the conversation and debate can continue, as well as the richness and insight gained by keeping the materials. Our projects have ranged in size from a single volunteer downloading the data to a small-but-critical site, to over 100 volunteers stepping forward to acquire terabytes of user-created data to save for future generations.

The main site for Archive Team is at archiveteam.org and contains up to the date information on various projects, manifestos, plans and walkthroughs.

This collection contains the output of many Archive Team projects, both ongoing and completed. Thanks to the generous providing of disk space by the Internet Archive, multi-terabyte datasets can be made available, as well as in use by the Wayback Machine, providing a path back to lost websites and work.

Our collection has grown to the point of having sub-collections for the type of data we acquire. If you are seeking to browse the contents of these collections, the Wayback Machine is the best first stop. Otherwise, you are free to dig into the stacks to see what you may find.

The Archive Team Panic Downloads are full pulldowns of currently extant websites, meant to serve as emergency backups for needed sites that are in danger of closing, or which will be missed dearly if suddenly lost due to hard drive crashes or server failures.

Collection: ArchiveBot: The Archive Team Crowdsourced Crawler

ArchiveBot is an IRC bot designed to automate the archival of smaller websites (e.g. up to a few hundred thousand URLs). You give it a URL to start at, and it grabs all content under that URL, records it in a WARC, and then uploads that WARC to ArchiveTeam servers for eventual injection into the Internet Archive (or other archive sites).

To use ArchiveBot, drop by #archivebot on EFNet. To interact with ArchiveBot, you issue commands by typing it into the channel. Note you will need channel operator permissions in order to issue archiving jobs. The dashboard shows the sites being downloaded currently.

There is a dashboard running for the archivebot process at http://www.archivebot.com.

ArchiveBot's source code can be found at https://github.com/ArchiveTeam/ArchiveBot.

TIMESTAMPS

The Wayback Machine - https://web.archive.org/web/20250203052810/https://github.com/sunlightlabs

openingparliament Public

sunlightlabs/openingparliament’s past year of commit activity

HTML 8 BSD-3-Clause 8 0 1 Updated Apr 8, 2024
spooky_sounds Public
This is a small Flask app that uses websockets and webcam motion detection to trigger sounds using say from OSX.

sunlightlabs/spooky_sounds’s past year of commit activity

JavaScript 1 BSD-3-Clause 0 2 1 Updated May 1, 2023
senate_disbursements Public Forked from jsfenfen/senate_disbursements
process--partially--the senate clerk's report on spending.

sunlightlabs/senate_disbursements’s past year of commit activity

Python 2 BSD-2-Clause 7 0 0 Updated Apr 4, 2023
fcc-net-neutrality-comments Public archive
scraping, parsing and making sense of the flood of comments submitted to the FCC on net neutrality

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Jupyter Notebook 39 MIT 6 0 1 Updated Jan 22, 2020
sunlighttt-asyncio Public
Python asyncio version of Sunlighttt

sunlightlabs/sunlighttt-asyncio’s past year of commit activity

Python 0 BSD-3-Clause 1 0 0 Updated Oct 13, 2017
jquery-findyourrep Public archive
A basic jQuery plugin for finding out who represents you in federal and state legislatures

sunlightlabs/jquery-findyourrep’s past year of commit activity

JavaScript 19 BSD-3-Clause 7 1 1 Updated May 25, 2017
name-cleaver Public
Parser and standardizer for politician, individual and organization names.

sunlightlabs/name-cleaver’s past year of commit activity

Python 129 GPL-3.0 23 3 2 Updated May 18, 2017
foia-data Public
Tracking FOIA data across government agencies and departments

sunlightlabs/foia-data’s past year of commit activity

HTML 13 GPL-3.0 2 0 0 Updated Mar 6, 2017
sfcom-wordpress-theme Public
Wordpress Theme for the Sunlight Foundation website

sunlightlabs/sfcom-wordpress-theme’s past year of commit activity

CSS 1 1 7 0 Updated Feb 10, 2017
openstates-api Public
needed for redirects to new OS docs

sunlightlabs/openstates-api’s past year of commit activity

3 GPL-3.0 0 0 0 Updated Jan 12, 2017