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ArchiveBox
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Ask HN: What Underrated Open Source Project Deserves More Recognition?
Two projects I greatly appreciate, allowing me to easily archive my bandcamp and GOG purchases (after the initial setup anyways):
https://github.com/easlice/bandcamp-downloader
https://github.com/Kalanyr/gogrepoc
And I recently learned about archivebox, which I think is going to be a fast favorite and finally let me clear out my mess of tabs/bookmarks: https://github.com/ArchiveBox/ArchiveBox
- YaCy, a distributed Web Search Engine, based on a peer-to-peer network
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Vice website is shutting down
If you really want to save the content for yourself, use something like https://archivebox.io/
I've been running a local instance for a few years now and download/save tech articles all time. I can search and find them as needed.
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An Introduction to the WARC File
API is coming soon (relatively, it's still a one-man project)! Stay tuned https://github.com/ArchiveBox/ArchiveBox/issues/496
I have an event-sourcing refactor in progress now to allow us to pluginize functionality like the API (similar to Home Assistant with a plugin app sotre), it will take a month or two. Next up is the REST API using the new plugin system.
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Ask HN: How can I back up an old vBulletin forum without admin access?
I guess your best chance is to use something like https://archivebox.io/.
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ArchiveBox – open-source self-hosted web archiving
Yeah this is a cool project but it was discussed 2 days ago.
As mentioned by the maintainer there, they even maintain a list of alternatives, very classy:
https://github.com/ArchiveBox/ArchiveBox/wiki/Web-Archiving-...
- ArchiveBox: Open-source self-hosted web archiving
- Linkhut: A Social Bookmarking Site
- Show HN: Rem: Remember Everything (open source)
- Bookmark manager with a focus on organization?
browsertrix-crawler
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Webrecorder: Capture interactive websites and replay them at a later time
(Disclaimer: I work at Webrecorder)
Our automated crawler browsertrix-crawler (https://github.com/webrecorder/browsertrix-crawler) uses Puppeteer to run browsers that we archive in by loading pages, running behaviors such as auto-scroll, and then record the request/response traffic. We have some custom behavior for some social media and video sites to make sure that content is appropriate captured. It is a bit of a cat-and-mouse game as we have to continue to update these behaviors as sites change, but for the most part it works pretty well.
The trickier part is in replaying the archived websites, as a certain amount of re-writing has to happen in order to make sure the HTML and JS are working with archived assets rather than the live web. One implementation of this is replayweb.page (https://github.com/webrecorder/replayweb.page), which does all of the rewriting client-side in the browser. This sets you interact with archived websites in WARC or WACZ format as if interacting with the original site.
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Come back, c2.com, we still need you
I use browsertrix-crawler[0] for crawling and it does well on JS heavy sites since it uses a real browser to request pages. Even has options to load browser profiles so you can crawl while being authenticated on sites.
[0] https://github.com/webrecorder/browsertrix-crawler
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Alternative to HTTrack (website copier) as of 2023?
I have started using the tools from https://webrecorder.net like Browsertrix Crawler and they have been working great. The web archive format is open source and very portable. The crawler even crawls and saves YouTube videos embedded on pages which is awesome.
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Halomaps, which has been the main hub for Halo modding content for almost 20 years, is having it's forums shut down on Feb 1st. A massive amount of content will be lost if it's not archived.
This looks like a good candidate for https://github.com/webrecorder/browsertrix-crawler.
- Offline Internet Archive
- Options to backup https://trythatsoap.com/?
- How to Download All of Wikipedia onto a USB Flash Drive
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Ask HN: Best approaches to archiving interactive web journalism/writing
I just learned about this organization, Saving Ukrainian Cultural Heritage Online (SUCHO): https://www.sucho.org/
They seem to be using various tools, like Browsertrix: https://github.com/webrecorder/browsertrix-crawler
It sounds promising for interactive sites:
> Support for custom browser behaviors, using Browsertix Behaviors including autoscroll, video autoplay and site-specific behaviors
Browsertrix links to https://replayweb.page/ for a way to view an archived site.
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How is ArchiveBox?
If you need more advanced recursive spider/crawling ability beyond --depth=1, check out Browsertrix, Photon, or Scrapy and pipe the outputted URLs into ArchiveBox.
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Looking for suggestions for archiving Google Groups
I recommend this: https://github.com/webrecorder/browsertrix-crawler
What are some alternatives?
Wallabag - wallabag is a self hostable application for saving web pages: Save and classify articles. Read them later. Freely.
grab-site - The archivist's web crawler: WARC output, dashboard for all crawls, dynamic ignore patterns
paimon-moe - Your best Genshin Impact companion! Help you plan what to farm with ascension calculator and database. Also track your progress with todo and wish counter.
Photon - Incredibly fast crawler designed for OSINT.
SingleFile - Web Extension for saving a faithful copy of a complete web page in a single HTML file
remodeling - The original wiki rewritten as a single page application
ArchivesSpace - The ArchivesSpace archives management tool
replayweb.page - Serverless replay of web archives directly in the browser
wiktextract - Wiktionary dump file parser and multilingual data extractor
Archivematica - Free and open-source digital preservation system designed to maintain standards-based, long-term access to collections of digital objects.
zim-tools - Various ZIM command line tools