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I ported the Firefox Archive.today extension to Safari

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Re: I ported the Firefox Archive.today extension to Safari

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Post by js2 »

Note: you have to both enable the extension and set its permissions for "All Websites" to "Allow". If you have its permissions set to "Ask" then it will take you to archive.ph but not actually load the current tab's URL.

This explains the behavior folks are commenting on here where it appears not to work.

Re: I ported the Firefox Archive.today extension to Safari

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Post by codingpanic »

LeoNatan25 wrote: post #10
codingpanic wrote: post #8

Earlier quoted context omitted.

This should be the expected behavior when pressing the button on a new Safari tab. Otherwise, should redirect to the URL your current open tab is displaying.

Then something in the UX is broken. From your store images, I understood that clicking on that tab menu item, it would display last archive date and ask to rearchive, no? There is a reason why most Safari extensions apps do not just show an icon and a label, but actually explain how to use their embedded extensions.

The extension is open source, I'm open to new ideas on how to improve this further. The current Edge/Firefox extensions just error out, and this was not acceptable for this version of the extension per the AppStore rules.

You can make any suggestions here: https://github.com/gnormandin/Archive-Page/issues

Re: I ported the Firefox Archive.today extension to Safari

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Post by codingpanic »

js2 wrote: post #12

Note: you have to both enable the extension and set its permissions for "All Websites" to "Allow". If you have its permissions set to "Ask" then it will take you to archive.ph but not actually load the current tab's URL. This explains the behavior folks are commenting on here where it appears not to work.

Thanks for the feedback, I'll work on fixing this. Alternatively, you can also open an issue here: https://github.com/gnormandin/Archive-Page/issues

Re: I ported the Firefox Archive.today extension to Safari

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Post by therealmarv »

You don't need an extension for that and allow questionable privacy settings like "access to all websites". Just use a bookmarklet (create a new bookmark e.g. in your top bar and add this code as URL):

  javascript:location.href='https://archive.is/?run=1&url=%27+encodeURIComponent(document.location)
Other bookmarklet examples (12ft, Google Cache):

  javascript:location.href='https://12ft.io/proxy?q=%27+encodeURIComponent(document.location)

 
 javascript:location.href='https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:%27+location.href;{}

Re: I ported the Firefox Archive.today extension to Safari

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Post by codingpanic »

codingpanic wrote: post #16
js2 wrote: post #12

Note: you have to both enable the extension and set its permissions for "All Websites" to "Allow". If you have its permissions set to "Ask" then it will take you to archive.ph but not actually load the current tab's URL. This explains the behavior folks are commenting on here where it appears not to work.

Thanks for the feedback, I'll work on fixing this. Alternatively, you can also open an issue here: https://github.com/gnormandin/Archive-Page/issues

New build submitted.

Re: I ported the Firefox Archive.today extension to Safari

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Post by maliker »

therealmarv wrote: post #17

You don't need an extension for that and allow questionable privacy settings like "access to all websites". Just use a bookmarklet (create a new bookmark e.g. in your top bar and add this code as URL): javascript:location.href='https://archive.is/?run=1&url=%27+encodeURIComponent(document.location) Other bookmarklet examples (12ft, Google Cache): javascript:location.href='https://12ft.io/proxy?q=%27+encodeURIComponen…

I've been doing this for years but missed the run=1 argument in archive.today to go directly to the latest copy instead of the list of all copies. Thank you!
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