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Their roadmap is also very interesting: "v2.0 Federated or distributed archiving + paid hosted service offering"
https://github.com/ArchiveBox/ArchiveBox/wiki/Roadmap#v20-fe...
I really need to try this out soon. I keep bumping into it online. What do people on HN use it for? What I do right now "to collect, save, and view sites you want to preserve offline" is by use of a Firefox plugin called WebScrapBook. Click-click-done, and I have a local searchable (!) copy of a webpage exactly as it looked in the browser. With styles and all, in one file. WebScrapBook is pretty highly configurable.…
I’ve used it to save a lot of pages related to ham radio. I have several 30-40 year old radios and I’m afraid one day information about them will just drop off the internet.
What is the advantage of this over something like Kiwix, or just using Playwright CLI? It seems useful but a bit unnecessary if just using to create Archive.org links.
I use it like permanent bookmarks. I can go back to it and trust it'll still be there. And this isn't just "things disappear eventually" - for a specific example, I was working on something rather last-minute recently, and wanted to refer to a vendor's whitepaper - and their entire site was "down for maintenance" all weekend. So I went onto my archive and I still had a copy from my first pass over the topic. It's a f…
I create browser bookmarks regularly but I wouldn't be bothered to SSH into my server to also tell it to grab a copy of the URL. Automating this with a browser plugin would be cool.
Looks like ArchiveBox has more export options? EDIT: looks like ArchiveBox is focused on continuous change tracking rather than than just snapshots like Wallabag.
Key benefit for me is having actual local files. The resulting PDFs are searchable on their own, so I can sync those back to my Mac for reference (and Spotlight indexing). But the HTML snapshots are also pretty decent.
One thing I’ll be looking into is automatic tagging (since it’s a Django app there are plenty of likely ways to inject that info).
Just FYI, I have this set up as a Docker container on my Synology and it is now patiently crawling through my (imported) 2000+ Pocket URLs, to which I’m adding a lot of other stuff scattered across other “clipping” tools (like OneNote). Key benefit for me is having actual local files. The resulting PDFs are searchable on their own, so I can sync those back to my Mac for reference (and Spotlight indexing). But the HTM…
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I use it like permanent bookmarks. I can go back to it and trust it'll still be there. And this isn't just "things disappear eventually" - for a specific example, I was working on something rather last-minute recently, and wanted to refer to a vendor's whitepaper - and their entire site was "down for maintenance" all weekend. So I went onto my archive and I still had a copy from my first pass over the topic. It's a f…
> I use it like permanent bookmarks. I create browser bookmarks regularly but I wouldn't be bothered to SSH into my server to also tell it to grab a copy of the URL. Automating this with a browser plugin would be cool.
How does this compare with, say, Wallabag? https://github.com/wallabag Looks like ArchiveBox has more export options? EDIT: looks like ArchiveBox is focused on continuous change tracking rather than than just snapshots like Wallabag.
Just FYI, I have this set up as a Docker container on my Synology and it is now patiently crawling through my (imported) 2000+ Pocket URLs, to which I’m adding a lot of other stuff scattered across other “clipping” tools (like OneNote). Key benefit for me is having actual local files. The resulting PDFs are searchable on their own, so I can sync those back to my Mac for reference (and Spotlight indexing). But the HTM…
I just got my first Synology literally two days ago, a DS3617xsII. Looking forward to playing with it, especially the virtualization / Docker features. How do you like it?
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I just got my first Synology literally two days ago, a DS3617xsII. Looking forward to playing with it, especially the virtualization / Docker features. How do you like it?
Very much so, this is my second and I've had it for a year now: https://taoofmac.com/space/blog/2020/04/04/2310