I ported the Firefox Archive.today extension to Safari

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Post by codingpanic » Tue, Apr 11, 2023, 10:35 AM UTC

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 codingpanic » Tue, Apr 11, 2023, 10:35 AM UTC

Finally published my first anything on the Apple AppStore by porting the Archive.Today extension to Safari. Works on iPad, iPhone, and Mac.

I was tired of copying and pasting when I wanted to use the Archive service on HN articles, so here you go!

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

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Post by Tempest1981 » Tue, Apr 11, 2023, 1:18 PM UTC

Thank you!

Just tried it at Bloomberg.com and wsj.com -- it redirected me to https://archive.ph/ and then again to https://archive.ph/

I'm on latest iOS.

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

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Post by stevanl » Tue, Apr 11, 2023, 1:19 PM UTC

codingpanic wrote: post #2

Finally published my first anything on the Apple AppStore by porting the Archive.Today extension to Safari. Works on iPad, iPhone, and Mac. I was tired of copying and pasting when I wanted to use the Archive service on HN articles, so here you go!

Congrats man, this should be useful!

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

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Post by dundarious » Tue, Apr 11, 2023, 1:23 PM UTC

Congrats to the author.

I’ve been using a homemade Shortcut for the same purpose. They’re great when you want a bit of control over such things. For example, expanding the url (following all redirects) before sending it to archive.ph/md/is, 12ft.io, or Reading List, etc. It’s very annoying having t.co urls in Reading List in particular.

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

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Post by LeoNatan25 » Tue, Apr 11, 2023, 1:26 PM UTC

It only redirects to the Archive homepage.

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

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Post by codingpanic » Tue, Apr 11, 2023, 1:27 PM UTC

Tempest1981 wrote: post #3

Thank you! Just tried it at Bloomberg.com and wsj.com -- it redirected me to https://archive.ph/ and then again to https://archive.ph/ I'm on latest iOS.

Yeah, there should be two redirects. The first is searching for the URL you entered, the second should either newly cache the page, or load the cached page. Same behavior as firefox.

If this is not what you are seeing, please open an issue on the github at: https://github.com/gnormandin/Archive-Page/issues

So I can keep track of issues encountered.

Thanks!

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

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Post by codingpanic » Tue, Apr 11, 2023, 1:28 PM UTC

LeoNatan25 wrote: post #6

It only redirects to the Archive homepage.

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.

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

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Post by KiDD » Tue, Apr 11, 2023, 1:29 PM UTC

It isn’t loading the website url into the archive search

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

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Post by LeoNatan25 » Tue, Apr 11, 2023, 1:38 PM UTC

codingpanic wrote: post #8

LeoNatan25 wrote: post #6

It only redirects to the Archive homepage.

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.