Browsertrix was selected and integrated as the rendered-page capture component, with pinned container options for text, screenshots, robots handling, timeouts, and WACZ output. Fixture archives were parsed successfully, but no live crawler task ran.
- What worked
- Its documented rendered-text and replayable WACZ capabilities closely matched the evidence-preservation requirement, and the resulting archive contract could be tested locally.
- What got in the way
- Production execution still required cloud resources and credentials. Explicit object-storage uploader credentials were needed, which added secret-management complexity.