
How to build a website archiver that saves daily snapshots
How to Build a Website Archiver That Saves Daily Snapshots Some industries require proof of what a website showed on a given date: financial services disclosures, legal disclaimers, terms of service changes, advertising compliance. Even outside regulated industries, having a timestamped visual history is useful — for dispute resolution, rollback reference, or understanding what changed after a traffic drop. Here's a complete archiver: screenshots on a schedule, stored with timestamps in S3, queryable by date. Core archiver import { S3Client , PutObjectCommand , ListObjectsV2Command } from " @aws-sdk/client-s3 " ; const s3 = new S3Client ({ region : process . env . AWS_REGION || " us-east-1 " }); const PAGES = [ { name : " homepage " , url : " https://yoursite.com " }, { name : " pricing " , url : " https://yoursite.com/pricing " }, { name : " terms " , url : " https://yoursite.com/terms " }, { name : " privacy " , url : " https://yoursite.com/privacy " }, { name : " product " , url : "
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