openapi-devtools VS awesome-web-archiving

Not specific to the CPG realm, but I've had some very good luck working with the OpenAPI-devtools Chrome Extension[1] (previous discussion here on hackernews[2]) to discover the underlying APIs of various sites that I want to scrape data from.

[1] https://github.com/AndrewWalsh/openapi-devtools

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38012032

As a follow up, the algorithm that powers this makes use of the chrome.devtools.network API. Specifically it passes the Request object that is in the HAR 1.2 archive format.

So if you can pass the equivalent of that in Firefox/other browsers to the insert method and switch things up a bit, it should be relatively straightforward. I will think about pulling out the core logic into its own lib.

https://developer.chrome.com/docs/extensions/reference/devto...

https://developer.chrome.com/docs/extensions/reference/devto...

https://github.com/AndrewWalsh/openapi-devtools/blob/main/sr...

https://github.com/iipc/awesome-web-archiving/blob/main/READ...

People have pasted this around, https://github.com/iipc/awesome-web-archiving Could probably do it with wget if you had enough time?

Maybe something on this list can help you https://github.com/iipc/awesome-web-archiving

Awesome Web Archiving has a longer list of tools and software

Not related to the OP topic or zim but I was looking into archiving my bookmarks and other content like documentation sites and wikis. I'll list some of the things I ended up using.

ArchiveBox[1]: Pretty much a self-hosted wayback machine. It can save websites as plain html, screenshot, text, and some other formats. I have my bookmarks archived in it and have a bookmarklet to easily add new websites to it. If you use the docker-compose you can enable a full-text search backend for an easy search setup.

WebRecorder[2]: A browser extension that creates WACZ archives directly in the browser capturing exactly what content you load. I use it on sites with annoying dynamic content that sites like wayback and ArchiveBox wouldn't be able to copy.

ReplayWeb[3]: An interface to browse archive types like WARC, WACZ, and HAR. The interface is just like browsing through your browser. It can be self-hosted as well for the full offline experience.

browsertrix-crawler[4]: A CLI tool to scrape websites and output to WACZ. Its super easy to run with Docker and I use it to scrape entire blogs and docs for offline use. It uses Chrome to load webpages and has some extra features like custom browser profiles, interactive login, and autoscroll/autoplay. I use the `--generateWACZ` parameter so I can use ReplayWeb to easily browse through the final output.

For bookmark and misc webpage archiving then ArchiveBox should be more than enough. Check out this repo for an amazing list of tools and resources https://github.com/iipc/awesome-web-archiving

[1] https://github.com/ArchiveBox/ArchiveBox