From d03f4475553a7559c9c915b7637a41e229c7c8e6 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Nick Sweeting Date: Wed, 8 May 2024 22:25:20 -0700 Subject: [PATCH] Update README.md --- README.md | 8 ++++++-- 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/README.md b/README.md index ac51e37f..5894b290 100644 --- a/README.md +++ b/README.md @@ -1192,9 +1192,13 @@ As long as you A. don't try to profit off pirating copyrighted content and B. ha comparison -> **Check out our [community wiki](https://github.com/ArchiveBox/ArchiveBox/wiki/Web-Archiving-Community) for a list of web archiving tools and orgs.** +> **Check out our [community wiki](https://github.com/ArchiveBox/ArchiveBox/wiki/Web-Archiving-Community) for a list of alternative web archiving tools and orgs.** -A variety of open and closed-source archiving projects exist, but few provide a nice UI and CLI to manage a large, high-fidelity collection over time. +A wide range of open and closed-source archiving software exists, but ArchiveBox occupies a niche that no other tools cover: + +- **it's distributed:** users own their data instead of entrusting it to one big central provider +- **it's future-proof:** everything is saved in *multiple formats* and content is extracted out into simple TXT, PNG, PDF, MP4, etc. files +- **it's extensible:** it has powerful APIs, flexible storage options, and an active community constantly adding new extractors & integrations