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When I initially coded up WARCreate, the webRequest API was still experimental. I believe there are more mature APIs that can be used from the extension context
by machawk1 8y ago
When I initially coded up WARCreate, the webRequest API was still experimental. I believe there are more mature APIs that can be used from the extension context but some require DevTools to be visually open, which is not a common usage pattern of a typical web user.
Per the ticket, we have worked on a few other JavaScript-driven web preservation project like https://github.com/N0taN3rd/node-warc https://github.com/N0taN3rd/node-warc and https://github.com/N0taN3rd/Squidwarc https://github.com/N0taN3rd/Squidwarc, among others.
Web archiving from a browser extension is difficult but can be improved. I don't know of any other approaches at trying to do this via a browser extension beyond submitting a URI to an archive.
- nikisweeting 8y agoWoah both these tools are awesome, thanks for sharing them! I'm adding links to both from https://github.com/pirate/ArchiveBox/wiki/Web-Archiving-Community https://github.com/pirate/ArchiveBox/wiki/Web-Archiving-Comm...