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Capturing a web page as a PDF, automatically

A web page changes or disappears without warning. Yet what it showed at a given moment sometimes has value: a price, a set of terms, a legal notice, a publication. Capturing a page as a PDF means keeping a faithful, dated copy of it.

01Three concrete uses

  • Watching: follow a competitor's pricing or product pages, and keep the history of how they change.
  • Proof of content: freeze the terms, the legal notice or the prices of a supplier, as they stood on the day you contracted.
  • Compliance: keep the state of a regulated page at regular intervals, without thinking about it.

02One-off or repeating

A one-off capture answers the immediate need: you give an address, you get a faithful PDF, filed in your archive.

A repeating capture goes further: you set a frequency (daily, weekly or monthly), and every run files a new dated version in the folder you chose. You end up with a dated history of the page, version after version, with no intervention.

PDF is the right format to archive the web: faithful to what was displayed, readable everywhere, and easy to date and to keep.

03Faithful, dated, and in France

The rendering reproduces the page as it is displayed, in a dated PDF. The capture engine is hosted in France, like the rest of your archive: your captures do not travel outside the European Union.

To go further, see the Scheduled web capture page.

Capture, then keep

The one-off capture happens here, with no account. The archiving format and the fingerprint come afterwards, when the copy has to serve as evidence.

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