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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

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.

rcarmo 5y ago
This does _a lot more_ than just creating archive.org links. It saves the entire page contents (in multiple formats, including nicely searchable PDF and some embedded media) locally.
braincoke 5y ago
Archivebox is also an awesome tool to create copies of a website. Whether you want to demonstrate a phishing attack or do a POC to integrate your product.
soneil 5y ago
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 free resource, I can't blame them and I can't complain - but if I can make sure it doesn't impact me, even better. I know other people would still have that tab open from 3 weeks ago, but I just don't work like that. I'm not going to complain about wayback/archive.org at all, but the nature of the beast is that there's certain requests they have to obey - and with my own offline, non-exposed equivalent, I don't (well, I do, but I simply don't receive them)
- sleavey 5y ago
  > 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.
  - soneil 5y ago
    There is a web UI, so I have a JS "bookmarklet" in my toolbar. If you go to the web UI and Add a url, right at the bottom of the page there's a link you can bookmark to do the same. So that's my workflow - click Archive (or cmd-alt-1), then hit enter. Done.
    - sleavey 5y ago
      Aha, that's great! I might give this a go this weekend then.
      - nikisweeting 5y ago
        There's also a real browser extension in the works by one of our users: https://github.com/ArchiveBox/ArchiveBox/issues/577#issuecomment-872915877 https://github.com/ArchiveBox/ArchiveBox/issues/577#issuecom...

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.

rcarmo 5y ago

This does _a lot more_ than just creating archive.org links. It saves the entire page contents (in multiple formats, including nicely searchable PDF and some embedded media) locally.

braincoke 5y ago

Archivebox is also an awesome tool to create copies of a website. Whether you want to demonstrate a phishing attack or do a POC to integrate your product.

soneil 5y ago

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 free resource, I can't blame them and I can't complain - but if I can make sure it doesn't impact me, even better. I know other people would still have that tab open from 3 weeks ago, but I just don't work like that. I'm not going to complain about wayback/archive.org at all, but the nature of the beast is that there's certain requests they have to obey - and with my own offline, non-exposed equivalent, I don't (well, I do, but I simply don't receive them)

sleavey 5y ago
> 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.
- soneil 5y ago
  There is a web UI, so I have a JS "bookmarklet" in my toolbar. If you go to the web UI and Add a url, right at the bottom of the page there's a link you can bookmark to do the same. So that's my workflow - click Archive (or cmd-alt-1), then hit enter. Done.
  - sleavey 5y ago
    Aha, that's great! I might give this a go this weekend then.
    - nikisweeting 5y ago
      There's also a real browser extension in the works by one of our users: https://github.com/ArchiveBox/ArchiveBox/issues/577#issuecomment-872915877 https://github.com/ArchiveBox/ArchiveBox/issues/577#issuecom...