[Use Case]: Social media user preserves and deletes account

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Describe a use case for WACZ format.

A social media user wants to use their browser to archive their public profile, and make it available on their personal website, before canceling their account.

Additional Requirements

• List of entry pages to start browsing from
• Full-text search index
• Technical metadata about the web archive
• User-defined descriptive metadata
• Screenshots of key pages
• Encryption of data
• Proof of Authenticity (Signing and Verification)
• Fast access to multiple WACZ files in aggregate
• Crawl or capture logs

How will web archives be created for this use case?

• Manually, using a browser to capture exact content as directed by the user.
• Automatically, using a crawler to crawl desired content, either once or on a specified schedule.

Sensitive private content and access

• No, this use case focuses on archiving publicly accessible data only, and web archive can be made public.
• No, this use case focuses on archiving publicly data only, but web archive is not inteded to be public.
• Yes, this use case involves archiving data that is not public, and the web archive should not be made public.

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This was added to the current use cases document.