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Given the hard 'no' in the FAQ, does anyone know about a similar project for Firefox?

BlackLotus89 6y ago
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 what that was called, but the AllSeingEye I found [4] [0] https://archivebox.io/ https://archivebox.io/ [1] https://yacy.net/ https://yacy.net/ [2] https://docs.archivebox.io/en/latest/Web-Archiving-Community.html#other-archivebox-alternatives https://docs.archivebox.io/en/latest/Web-Archiving-Community... [3] https://getmemex.com/ https://getmemex.com/ [4] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7886270 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7886270
- severine 6y ago
  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.
- vezycash 6y ago
  Add webrecoder to the list
  - BlackLotus89 6y ago
    It's now called Conifer and listed under my [2] link :) but thank you for mentioning it by name so I could look it up again, seems interesting. Looks like I got some research for this week
- ryanfox 6y ago
  Any chance you’re thinking of APSE? I submitted a Show HN a while back. https://apse.io/ https://apse.io/
rzzzt 6y ago
Could the "HAR" file I can save from Firefox' Network tab somehow be used for this? That looks to be a recording from the entire timeline, including payloads.
- franga2000 6y ago
  I have used HAR files for archiving purposes in the past and it did work fairly well, but I'm not sure if there's a way of getting them programmatically
graderjs 6y ago
Look now that Firefox seems to be supporting the webdriver protocol more closely, the progress of FF to which I don't follow that closely, so it might have caught up quite a lot, but it will be possible it'll just be a bit more work and I don't care to do that without knowing you know how many people it would really affect. I feel quite sorry for the people to who don't enjoy seeing they can't use Ff. Also, I don't want to do it if I have to change the way I use the protocol so I would want the same methods to be pretty much available and to work the same way.

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 what that was called, but the AllSeingEye I found [4] [0] https://archivebox.io/ https://archivebox.io/ [1] https://yacy.net/ https://yacy.net/ [2] https://docs.archivebox.io/en/latest/Web-Archiving-Community.html#other-archivebox-alternatives https://docs.archivebox.io/en/latest/Web-Archiving-Community... [3] https://getmemex.com/ https://getmemex.com/ [4] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7886270 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7886270

severine 6y ago
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.
vezycash 6y ago
Add webrecoder to the list
- BlackLotus89 6y ago
  It's now called Conifer and listed under my [2] link :) but thank you for mentioning it by name so I could look it up again, seems interesting. Looks like I got some research for this week
ryanfox 6y ago
Any chance you’re thinking of APSE? I submitted a Show HN a while back. https://apse.io/ https://apse.io/

rzzzt 6y ago

Could the "HAR" file I can save from Firefox' Network tab somehow be used for this? That looks to be a recording from the entire timeline, including payloads.

franga2000 6y ago
I have used HAR files for archiving purposes in the past and it did work fairly well, but I'm not sure if there's a way of getting them programmatically

graderjs 6y ago

Look now that Firefox seems to be supporting the webdriver protocol more closely, the progress of FF to which I don't follow that closely, so it might have caught up quite a lot, but it will be possible it'll just be a bit more work and I don't care to do that without knowing you know how many people it would really affect. I feel quite sorry for the people to who don't enjoy seeing they can't use Ff. Also, I don't want to do it if I have to change the way I use the protocol so I would want the same methods to be pretty much available and to work the same way.