Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Antoine Beaupre <anar...@debian.org>
* Package name : archivebox Version : 0.2.4 Upstream Author : Nick Sweeting * URL : https://archivebox.io/ * License : MIT/Expat? Programming Lang: Python Description : open source self-hosted web archive ArchiveBox takes a list of website URLs you want to archive, and creates a local, static, browsable HTML clone of the content from those websites (it saves HTML, JS, media files, PDFs, images and more). You can use it to preserve access to websites you care about by storing them locally offline. ArchiveBox works by rendering the pages in a headless browser, then saving all the requests and fully loaded pages in multiple redundant common formats (HTML, PDF, PNG, WARC) that will last long after the original content dissapears off the internet. It also automatically extracts assets like git repositories, audio, video, subtitles, images, and PDFs into separate files using youtube-dl, pywb, and wget. ArchiveBox doesn’t require a constantly running server or backend, instead you just run the ./archive command each time you want to import new links and update the static output. It can import and export JSON (among other formats), so it’s easy to script or hook up to other APIs. If you run it on a schedule and import from browser history or bookmarks regularly, you can sleep soundly knowing that the slice of the internet you care about will be automatically preserved in multiple, durable long-term formats that will be accessible for decades (or longer). ---- I'm not using this just yet because the upstream packaging is somewhat weird right now. https://github.com/pirate/ArchiveBox/issues/120#issuecomment-471027516 It's eventually going to end up on pypi, at which point i'll look at packaging this myself. There are, as far as I know, no similar tool in Debian right now. There are web crawlers and grabbers, but nothing as comprehensive as this. I'd be happy to co-maintain this or delegate to whoever is interested.
