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

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Post by kall »

lxgr wrote: post #19
kall wrote: post #18

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

Yeah. I also assume it deletes the pages after they are "read" but who knows, there‘s no insight into the feature.

The best bookmarking option for archival seems to be the pinboard.in archive plan.

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

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Post by jaggirs »

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.

The coolest part I think is that you have a copy of all these websites on disk, which means you can run a full text search on all the websites you visited (or on their html, technically).

Browsers'history sucks. I don't know if this project does this, but I would absolutely love to be able to do SQL queries on my browsing history.

I have 'lost' many websites I remember visiting, but for which I didn't remember anything in the title.

Also, obviously, websites change sometimes, and the web archive might not have cached the website you visited. Although from what I can tell, this project doesn't version websites, it just caches the latest, so you would probably just overwrite the previous version accidentally.

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

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Post by sbeckeriv »

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…

selfplug: https://sbeckeriv.github.io/personal_search/

I am working on a personal project that like this. It is in early stages. I am creating a local search based on my browser history. So it doesnt crawl pages. Also the fetch is out of bounds of the browser so Authed urls are not supported out of the box.

I have a bookmarklet currently that lets met "pin" my page. my pinned pages are my new home page. Its how I keep my tabs closed.

I do not do a full archive level (but i could). Instead you get an offline view that is stripped of most things. example https://raw.githubusercontent.com/sbeckeriv/personal_search/...

Demo of the pin:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5g_mXXFwQlg

a self hosted version is on the roadmap.

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

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Post by asaddhamani »

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…

I have a project https://www.github.com/dhamaniasad/crestify that does the archival to archive.org and archive.today, you might find it useful

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

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Post by phkahler »

wolco2 wrote: post #10
jsilence wrote: post #6

Awesome! I always wanted this and at one point tried to achieve it with WWWOFFLE, but the welcome proliferation of https thwarted that attempt. Gonna check it. Unfortunately only for chrome. I am very much used to having my favourite set of Firefox plugins. Will have to check whether I can replicate that with Chrome.

Unfortunate state of affairs with firefox extentions. Niche extentions do not exist anymore. I had to switch to chrome for extensions. Finding a chrome extension that provides similiar functionality to your firefox ones should be easy.

>> Unfortunate state of affairs with firefox extentions. Niche extentions do not exist anymore.

This seems like something that could be done in a proxy and be browser independent.

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

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Post by severine »

BlackLotus89 wrote: post #11
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 wha…

Thanks for your answer, I had missed ArchiveBox completely!

I currently use Memex, but this is different approach, and I keep looking for a polished experience that can get more mainstream users into archiving/offline browsing.

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

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Post by vezycash »

BlackLotus89 wrote: post #11
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 wha…

Add webrecoder to the list

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

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Post by severine »

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…

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.

Sideshow Ask HN: Didn't Firefox mobile work like this? I could read the reader view items offline...

Anyone knows what's happening with the whole bookmarks/collections situation?

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

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Post by gildas »

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…

I implemented some options for that purpose in SingleFile [1]. They allow you to save the page when you bookmark it and eventually replace the URL of the page with the file URI on your disk.

[1] https://github.com/gildas-lormeau/SingleFile

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