LAT Database Producer Archives Newspaper Website Home Pages
Interesting sideline project from Ben Welsh, a database producer at the LA Times. It’s called PastPages and has been set up to record hourly snapshots of the home pages of various newspaper websites.
There are currently about 80 publications being tracked, everything from the LAT and TMZ to Le Monde and The Guardian. Welsh has managed to quickly exceed a Kickstarter fundraising goal of $5,000 and tells journalism.co.uk he’s looking forward to building out his non-profit venture:
Currently, the site just takes an image snapshot of the front pages but in the future PastPages will scrape and host all the HTML, images and code running on the website.
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