Warrick

Version 2.0

"The website reconstructor"

Created by Frank McCown at Old Dominion University - 2006

Modified by Justin F. Brunelle at Old Dominion University - 2011 jbrunelle@cs.odu.edu

Please note: This software has the following dependencies: Perl5 or later cURL Python and these Perl libraries: HTML::TagParser, LinkExtractor, Cookies, Status, and Date, and the URI library

Running ./INSTALL at the command line should install these dependencies. To test the installation, run ./TEST. This will recover a web page and compare it to a master copy.

For information on running Warrick, run at your command line: perl warrick.pl --help

This version of Warrick has been redesigned to reconstruct lost websites from the Web Infrastructure using Memento. (For more information on Memento, please visit http://www.mementoweb.org/.)

We want to know if you have if you have used Warrick to reconstruct your lost website. Please e-mail me at jbrunelle@cs.odu.edu

This program creates several files that provide information or log data about the recovery. For a given recovery RECO_NAME, we will create a RECO_NAME_recoveryLog.out, PID_SERVERNAME.save, and logfile.o. These are created for every recovery job. RECO_NAME_recoveryLog.out is created in the home warrick directory, and contains a report of every URI recovered, the location of the recovered archived copy (the memento), and the location the file was saved to on the local machine in the following format: ORIGINAL URI => MEMENTO URI => LOCAL FILE Lines pre-pended with "FAILED" indicate a failed recovery of ORIGINAL URI PID_SERVERNAME.save is the saved status file. This file is
stored in the recovery directory and contains the information for resuming a suspended recovery job, as well as the stats for the recovery, such as the number of resources failed to be recovered, the number from different archives, etc. logfile.o is a temporary file that can be regarded as junk. It contains the headers for the last recovered resource.

If you would like to assist the development team in refining and improving Warrick, please provide each of these files to the development team by emailing them to jbrunelle@cs.odu.edu.

Thank you for your help.

This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.

This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details.

The GNU General Public License can be seen here: http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/gpl.html