Hackathons: Web Archive websites
garyhtou opened this issue · comments
We want to preserve hackathon websites! Generally, these websites tend to be short-lived due maintenance/hosting costs.
We'll still need to figure out the exact way we want to approach this, but here's what I envision at the moment:
- Use the Wayback Machine's API to archive hackathon websites at a regular interval, until 1 month after the hackathon's end date
- At a regular interval, crawl all hackathon websites. If a hackathon's website is down, return the archived version's URL in the API (rather than the original URL)