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Re: Show HN: Self-hosted offline Internet from your browsing history

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Post by BlackLotus89 »

severine wrote: post #7

Given the hard 'no' in the FAQ, does anyone know about a similar project for Firefox?

Like the title of the github repo suggests ArchiveBox can be used. You have to manually import your browsing history though....

In theory you could also use yacy... But that is intended as search engine and not as archive.

Edit: while looking into it I found alternatives [2] and Memex [3] seems to be interesting.

Edit2: I remember 2 Show HNs. One recorded your entire desktop and made it searchable. Can't remember what that was called, but the AllSeingEye I found [4]

[0] https://archivebox.io/

[1] https://yacy.net/

[2] https://docs.archivebox.io/en/latest/Web-Archiving-Community...

[3] https://getmemex.com/

[4] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7886270

Re: Show HN: Self-hosted offline Internet from your browsing history

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Post by lxgr »

dksidana wrote: post #5

Reminds me days of Webaroo[1] and Google grears[2] [1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Webaroo [2] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gears_(software)

Ah, that brings back memories. Didn't Palm OS have something similar? I think it was Plucker [1], but I'm not too sure.

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Re: Show HN: Self-hosted offline Internet from your browsing history

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Post by lxgr »

Very interesting project.

I wish this was actually (optional) built-in behavior for browsers when bookmarking pages, or at least when adding to a "read later" list like Pocket/Instapaper etc.

Pocket seems to offer something like this, but only in the premium version, so the "permanent archive" ironically seems to go away when unsubscribing.

As a workaround, what if bookmarking a (public) page could actually ping it to archive.org for archival?

Re: Show HN: Self-hosted offline Internet from your browsing history

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Post by harlanji »

yamrzou wrote: post #4

This uses Chrome DevTools Protocol in a pretty clever way. I used it to archive a highly interactive website and it worked like a charm. The README states: "It runs connected to a browser, and so is able to access the full-scope of resources (with, currently, the exception of video, audio and websockets, for now)" I wonder what kind of limitations makes it hard to intercept those resources like the rest of the conten…

I could smash in the audio visual, as my platform is all about archiving and being the origin for a CDN-fronted open offline-first platform with minimal resources that can go into a boat etc. tinydatacenter.com, Github / harlanji / ispooge,tinydatacenter, biz@harlanji.com - need $375/wk.

Re: Show HN: Self-hosted offline Internet from your browsing history

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Post by ppezaris »

Cool concept. In a world that's getting increasingly connected what are the main use-cases?

I ask because the dev tool that our company creates occasionally (okay, very rarely) gets a question about offline mode, and when I prod, it's usually just out of curiosity, not because they actually need it in real life.

Re: Show HN: Self-hosted offline Internet from your browsing history

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Post by kall »

lxgr wrote: post #14

Very interesting project. I wish this was actually (optional) built-in behavior for browsers when bookmarking pages, or at least when adding to a "read later" list like Pocket/Instapaper etc. Pocket seems to offer something like this, but only in the premium version, so the "permanent archive" ironically seems to go away when unsubscribing. As a workaround, what if bookmarking a (public) page could actually ping it t…

This is a feature of iOS safari with the read later list. It‘s not been particularly reliable for me though.

Re: Show HN: Self-hosted offline Internet from your browsing history

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Post by lxgr »

kall wrote: post #18
lxgr wrote: post #14

Very interesting project. I wish this was actually (optional) built-in behavior for browsers when bookmarking pages, or at least when adding to a "read later" list like Pocket/Instapaper etc. Pocket seems to offer something like this, but only in the premium version, so the "permanent archive" ironically seems to go away when unsubscribing. As a workaround, what if bookmarking a (public) page could actually ping it t…

This is a feature of iOS safari with the read later list. It‘s not been particularly reliable for me though.

iOS's implementation is definitely useful, but I was thinking more along the lines of a permanent archive persistently stored.

iOS seems to optimize for temporary offline scenarios; saved pages do not seem to be backed up or synced to iCloud.

Re: Show HN: Self-hosted offline Internet from your browsing history

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Post by lxgr »

ppezaris wrote: post #16

Cool concept. In a world that's getting increasingly connected what are the main use-cases? I ask because the dev tool that our company creates occasionally (okay, very rarely) gets a question about offline mode, and when I prod, it's usually just out of curiosity, not because they actually need it in real life.

This seems to geared towars "content goes down" scenarios, rather than "reader is temporarily offline".

It's a concern I have every time I find a particularly interesting independently hosted blog post or article.

The Internet Archive goes a long way towards making me worry about this less, though. (Let's just hope they don't go away!)

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