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harnessvswebarchive

Two self-hosted projects, compared on the numbers selfhost.directory tracks live: score, popularity, release cadence and setup effort.

harnesswebarchive
Score80/10040/100
Rank in category#3 of 28 in CI/CD#11 of 12 in Archiving & Preservation
GitHub stars38 753200
Stars, last 30 days+319+0
Stable releases, 12 months60
Latest releasev2.28.2 · 20 Apr 2026—
SetupEasyModerate
Official Docker imageYesYes
LicenseApache-2.0BSD-3-Clause
Main languageGoGo

Which one should you pick?

harness scores 80/100 against 40/100 for webarchive, so it is the safer default.

harness ships more often: 6 stable releases in the past year, against 0 for webarchive.

If you want the quickest setup, harness is easier to run; webarchive needs more configuration.

harness is growing faster right now (+319 stars in 30 days).

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