ArchiveBox
_{Open-source self-hosted web archiving.}

"Your own personal internet archive" (网站存档 / 爬虫)

**ArchiveBox is a powerful, self-hosted internet archiving solution to collect, save, and view sites you want to preserve offline.** You can set it up as a [command-line tool](#quickstart), [web app](#quickstart), and [desktop app](https://github.com/ArchiveBox/electron-archivebox) (alpha), on Linux, macOS, and Windows. **You can feed it URLs one at a time, or schedule regular imports** from browser bookmarks or history, feeds like RSS, bookmark services like Pocket/Pinboard, and more. See input formats for a full list. **It saves snapshots of the URLs you feed it in several formats:** HTML, PDF, PNG screenshots, WARC, and more out-of-the-box, with a wide variety of content extracted and preserved automatically (article text, audio/video, git repos, etc.). See output formats for a full list. The goal is to sleep soundly knowing the part of the internet you care about will be automatically preserved in durable, easily accessable formats for decades after it goes down.

Demo | Screenshots | Usage
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**📦 Install ArchiveBox with [Docker Compose (recommended)](#quickstart) / Docker, or `apt` / `brew` / `pip` ([see below](#quickstart)).** *No matter which setup method you choose, they all follow this basic process and provide the same CLI, Web UI, and on-disk data layout.* 1. Once you've installed ArchiveBox, run this in a new empty folder to get started ```bash archivebox init --setup # creates a new collection in the current directory ``` 2. Add some URLs you want to archive ```bash archivebox add 'https://example.com' # add URLs one at a time via args / piped stdin archivebox schedule --every=day --depth=1 https://example.com/rss.xml # or have it import URLs on a schedule ``` 3. Then view your archived pages ```bash archivebox server 0.0.0.0:8000 # use the interactive web UI archivebox list 'https://example.com' # use the CLI commands (--help for more) ls ./archive/*/index.json # or browse directly via the filesystem ``` **⤵️ See the [Quickstart](#quickstart) below for more...**

## Key Features - [**Free & open source**](https://github.com/ArchiveBox/ArchiveBox/blob/master/LICENSE), doesn't require signing up for anything, stores all data locally - [**Powerful, intuitive command line interface**](https://github.com/ArchiveBox/ArchiveBox/wiki/Usage#CLI-Usage) with [modular optional dependencies](#dependencies) - [**Comprehensive documentation**](https://github.com/ArchiveBox/ArchiveBox/wiki), [active development](https://github.com/ArchiveBox/ArchiveBox/wiki/Roadmap), and [rich community](https://github.com/ArchiveBox/ArchiveBox/wiki/Web-Archiving-Community) - [**Extracts a wide variety of content out-of-the-box**](https://github.com/ArchiveBox/ArchiveBox/issues/51): [media (youtube-dl), articles (readability), code (git), etc.](#output-formats) - [**Supports scheduled/realtime importing**](https://github.com/ArchiveBox/ArchiveBox/wiki/Scheduled-Archiving) from [many types of sources](#input-formats) - [**Uses standard, durable, long-term formats**](#saves-lots-of-useful-stuff-for-each-imported-link) like HTML, JSON, PDF, PNG, and WARC - [**Usable as a oneshot CLI**](https://github.com/ArchiveBox/ArchiveBox/wiki/Usage#CLI-Usage), [**self-hosted web UI**](https://github.com/ArchiveBox/ArchiveBox/wiki/Usage#UI-Usage), [Python API](https://docs.archivebox.io/en/latest/modules.html) (BETA), [REST API](https://github.com/ArchiveBox/ArchiveBox/issues/496) (ALPHA), or [desktop app](https://github.com/ArchiveBox/electron-archivebox) (ALPHA) - [**Saves all pages to archive.org as well**](https://github.com/ArchiveBox/ArchiveBox/wiki/Configuration#submit_archive_dot_org) by default for redundancy (can be [disabled](https://github.com/ArchiveBox/ArchiveBox/wiki/Security-Overview#stealth-mode) for local-only mode) - Planned: support for archiving [content requiring a login/paywall/cookies](https://github.com/ArchiveBox/ArchiveBox/wiki/Configuration#chrome_user_data_dir) (working, but ill-advised until some pending fixes are released) - Planned: support for running [JS during archiving](https://github.com/ArchiveBox/ArchiveBox/issues/51) to adblock, [autoscroll](https://github.com/ArchiveBox/ArchiveBox/issues/80), [modal-hide](https://github.com/ArchiveBox/ArchiveBox/issues/175), [thread-expand](https://github.com/ArchiveBox/ArchiveBox/issues/345)...

# Quickstart **🖥 Supported OSs:** Linux/BSD, macOS, Windows (Docker/WSL) **👾 CPUs:** amd64, x86, arm8, arm7 ^(raspi>=3) #### ⬇️ Initial Setup docker-compose is the recommended way to run ArchiveBox because it includes all the extractor dependencies + full-text search out-of-the-box, and it's the easiest way to keep those dependencies up-to-date and securely isolated from the rest of your system.
*(click to expand your preferred **► `distribution`** below for full setup instructions)*

Get ArchiveBox with docker-compose on macOS/Linux/Windows ✨ (highly recommended)

Install Docker and Docker Compose on your system (if not already installed).

Download the docker-compose.yml file into a new empty directory (can be anywhere).

mkdir ~/archivebox && cd ~/archivebox
curl -O 'https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ArchiveBox/ArchiveBox/master/docker-compose.yml'

Run the initial setup and create an admin user.
```
docker-compose run archivebox init --setup
```

Optional: Start the server then login to the Web UI http://127.0.0.1:8000 ⇢ Admin.

docker-compose up
# completely optional, CLI can always be used without running a server
# docker-compose run [-T] archivebox [subcommand] [--args]

See below for more usage examples using the CLI, Web UI, or filesystem/SQL/Python manage your archive.

Get ArchiveBox with docker on macOS/Linux/Windows

Install Docker on your system (if not already installed).

Create a new empty directory and initalize your collection (can be anywhere).

mkdir ~/archivebox && cd ~/archivebox
docker run -v $PWD:/data -it archivebox/archivebox init --setup

Optional: Start the server then login to the Web UI http://127.0.0.1:8000 ⇢ Admin.

docker run -v $PWD:/data -p 8000:8000 archivebox/archivebox
# completely optional, CLI can always be used without running a server
# docker run -v $PWD:/data -it [subcommand] [--args]

See below for more usage examples using the CLI, Web UI, or filesystem/SQL/Python manage your archive.

Get ArchiveBox with apt on Ubuntu/Debian

Add the ArchiveBox repository to your sources.

# On Ubuntu >= 20.04, add the sources automatically:
sudo apt install software-properties-common
sudo add-apt-repository -u ppa:archivebox/archivebox

# On Ubuntu <= 19.10, or other Debian-style systems add the sources manually:
echo "deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/archivebox/archivebox/ubuntu focal main" | sudo tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/archivebox.list
sudo apt-key adv --keyserver keyserver.ubuntu.com --recv-keys C258F79DCC02E369
sudo apt update

Install the ArchiveBox package using apt.
```
sudo apt install archivebox
```

Create a new empty directory and initalize your collection (can be anywhere).

mkdir ~/archivebox && cd ~/archivebox
archivebox init --setup           # if any problems, install with pip instead

Optional: Start the server then login to the Web UI http://127.0.0.1:8000 ⇢ Admin.

archivebox server 0.0.0.0:8000
# completely optional, CLI can always be used without running a server
# archivebox [subcommand] [--args]

See below for more usage examples using the CLI, Web UI, or filesystem/SQL/Python manage your archive.

Get ArchiveBox with brew on macOS

Install Homebrew on your system (if not already installed).

Install the ArchiveBox package using brew.

brew install archivebox/archivebox/archivebox

Create a new empty directory and initalize your collection (can be anywhere).

mkdir ~/archivebox && cd ~/archivebox
archivebox init --setup         # if any problems, install with pip instead

Optional: Start the server then login to the Web UI http://127.0.0.1:8000 ⇢ Admin.

archivebox server 0.0.0.0:8000
# completely optional, CLI can always be used without running a server
# archivebox [subcommand] [--args]

See below for more usage examples using the CLI, Web UI, or filesystem/SQL/Python manage your archive.

Get ArchiveBox with pip on any platform

Install Python >= v3.7 and Node >= v14 on your system (if not already installed).
Install the ArchiveBox package using pip3.
```
pip3 install archivebox
```

Create a new empty directory and initalize your collection (can be anywhere).

mkdir ~/archivebox && cd ~/archivebox
archivebox init --setup
# install any missing extras like wget/git/ripgrep/etc. manually as needed

Optional: Start the server then login to the Web UI http://127.0.0.1:8000 ⇢ Admin.

archivebox server 0.0.0.0:8000
# completely optional, CLI can always be used without running a server
# archivebox [subcommand] [--args]

See below for more usage examples using the CLI, Web UI, or filesystem/SQL/Python manage your archive.

Get ArchiveBox with a paid hosting solution

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_{(most still require manual setup or manual periodic updating using the methods above)}

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For more discussion on managed and paid hosting options see here: Issue #531.

#### ⚡️ CLI Usage ```bash # archivebox [subcommand] [--args] # docker-compose run archivebox [subcommand] [--args] # docker run -v $PWD:/data -it [subcommand] [--args] archivebox init --setup # safe to run init multiple times (also how you update versions) archivebox --version archivebox help # example usage: # archivebox config --set SAVE_ARCHIVE_DOT_ORG=False # archivebox add --depth=1 'https://example.com/some/rss/feed.xml' # archivebox list --with-headers --html > static_index.html ``` - `archivebox setup/init/config/status/manage` to administer your collection - `archivebox add/schedule/remove/update/list/shell/oneshot` to manage Snapshots in the archive - `archivebox schedule` to pull in fresh URLs in regularly from [boorkmarks/history/Pocket/Pinboard/RSS/etc.](#input-formats) #### 🖥 Web UI Usage ```bash archivebox manage createsuperuser archivebox server 0.0.0.0:8000 # open http://127.0.0.1:8000 to view it # you can also configure whether or not login is required for most features archivebox config --set PUBLIC_INDEX=False archivebox config --set PUBLIC_SNAPSHOTS=False archivebox config --set PUBLIC_ADD_VIEW=False ``` #### 🗄 SQL/Python/Filesystem Usage ```bash sqlite3 ./index.sqlite3 # run SQL queries on your index archivebox shell # explore the Python API in a REPL ls ./archive/*/index.html # or inspect snapshots on the filesystem ```

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DEMO: https://demo.archivebox.io
Usage | Configuration | Caveats

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# Overview ## Input formats ArchiveBox supports many input formats for URLs, including Pocket & Pinboard exports, Browser bookmarks, Browser history, plain text, HTML, markdown, and more! *Click these links for instructions on how to propare your links from these sources:* -

TXT, RSS, XML, JSON, CSV, SQL, HTML, Markdown, or [any other text-based format...](https://github.com/ArchiveBox/ArchiveBox/wiki/Usage#Import-a-list-of-URLs-from-a-text-file) -

[Browser history](https://github.com/ArchiveBox/ArchiveBox/wiki/Quickstart#2-get-your-list-of-urls-to-archive) or [browser bookmarks](https://github.com/ArchiveBox/ArchiveBox/wiki/Quickstart#2-get-your-list-of-urls-to-archive) (see instructions for: [Chrome](https://support.google.com/chrome/answer/96816?hl=en), [Firefox](https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/export-firefox-bookmarks-to-backup-or-transfer), [Safari](http://i.imgur.com/AtcvUZA.png), [IE](https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/211089/how-to-import-and-export-the-internet-explorer-favorites-folder-to-a-32-bit-version-of-windows), [Opera](http://help.opera.com/Windows/12.10/en/importexport.html), [and more...](https://github.com/ArchiveBox/ArchiveBox/wiki/Quickstart#2-get-your-list-of-urls-to-archive)) -

[Pocket](https://getpocket.com/export), [Pinboard](https://pinboard.in/export/), [Instapaper](https://www.instapaper.com/user/export), [Shaarli](https://shaarli.readthedocs.io/en/master/Usage/#importexport), [Delicious](https://www.groovypost.com/howto/howto/export-delicious-bookmarks-xml/), [Reddit Saved](https://github.com/csu/export-saved-reddit), [Wallabag](https://doc.wallabag.org/en/user/import/wallabagv2.html), [Unmark.it](http://help.unmark.it/import-export), [OneTab](https://www.addictivetips.com/web/onetab-save-close-all-chrome-tabs-to-restore-export-or-import/), [and more...](https://github.com/ArchiveBox/ArchiveBox/wiki/Quickstart#2-get-your-list-of-urls-to-archive) ```bash # archivebox add --help archivebox add 'https://example.com/some/page' archivebox add < ~/Downloads/firefox_bookmarks_export.html archivebox add --depth=1 'https://news.ycombinator.com#2020-12-12' echo 'http://example.com' | archivebox add echo 'any_text_with [urls](https://example.com) in it' | archivebox add # if using docker add -i when piping stdin: # echo 'https://example.com' | docker run -v $PWD:/data -i archivebox/archivebox add # if using docker-compose add -T when piping stdin / stdout: # echo 'https://example.com' | docker-compose run -T archivebox add ``` See the [Usage: CLI](https://github.com/ArchiveBox/ArchiveBox/wiki/Usage#CLI-Usage) page for documentation and examples. It also includes a built-in scheduled import feature with `archivebox schedule` and browser bookmarklet, so you can pull in URLs from RSS feeds, websites, or the filesystem regularly/on-demand.
## Archive Layout All of ArchiveBox's state (including the index, snapshot data, and config file) is stored in a single folder called the "ArchiveBox data folder". All `archivebox` CLI commands must be run from inside this folder, and you first create it by running `archivebox init`. The on-disk layout is optimized to be easy to browse by hand and durable long-term. The main index is a standard `index.sqlite3` database in the root of the data folder (it can also be exported as static JSON/HTML), and the archive snapshots are organized by date-added timestamp in the `./archive/` subfolder. ```bash ./ index.sqlite3 ArchiveBox.conf archive/ ... 1617687755/ index.html index.json screenshot.png media/some_video.mp4 warc/1617687755.warc.gz git/somerepo.git ... ``` Each snapshot subfolder `./archive//` includes a static `index.json` and `index.html` describing its contents, and the snapshot extrator outputs are plain files within the folder.
## Output formats Inside each Snapshot folder, ArchiveBox save these different types of extractor outputs as plain files: `./archive//*` - **Index:** `index.html` & `index.json` HTML and JSON index files containing metadata and details - **Title**, **Favicon**, **Headers** Response headers, site favicon, and parsed site title - **SingleFile:** `singlefile.html` HTML snapshot rendered with headless Chrome using SingleFile - **Wget Clone:** `example.com/page-name.html` wget clone of the site with `warc/.gz` - Chrome Headless - **PDF:** `output.pdf` Printed PDF of site using headless chrome - **Screenshot:** `screenshot.png` 1440x900 screenshot of site using headless chrome - **DOM Dump:** `output.html` DOM Dump of the HTML after rendering using headless chrome - **Article Text:** `article.html/json` Article text extraction using Readability & Mercury - **Archive.org Permalink:** `archive.org.txt` A link to the saved site on archive.org - **Audio & Video:** `media/` all audio/video files + playlists, including subtitles & metadata with youtube-dl - **Source Code:** `git/` clone of any repository found on github, bitbucket, or gitlab links - _More coming soon! See the [Roadmap](https://github.com/ArchiveBox/ArchiveBox/wiki/Roadmap)..._ It does everything out-of-the-box by default, but you can disable or tweak [individual archive methods](https://github.com/ArchiveBox/ArchiveBox/wiki/Configuration) via environment variables / config. ```bash # archivebox config --help archivebox config # see all currently configured options archivebox config --set SAVE_ARCHIVE_DOT_ORG=False archivebox config --set GIT_ARGS='--recursive' ```
## Static Archive Exporting You can export the main index to browse it statically without needing to run a server. *Note about large exports: These exports are not paginated, exporting many URLs or the entire archive at once may be slow. Use the filtering CLI flags on the `archivebox list` command to export specific Snapshots or ranges.* ```bash # archivebox list --help archivebox list --html --with-headers > index.html # export to static html table archivebox list --json --with-headers > index.json # export to json blob archivebox list --csv=timestamp,url,title > index.csv # export to csv spreadsheet # (if using docker-compose, add the -T flag when piping) # docker-compose run -T archivebox list --html --filter-type=search snozzberries > index.json ``` The paths in the static exports are relative, make sure to keep them next to your `./archive` folder when backing them up or viewing them.
## Configuration ArchiveBox can be configured via environment variables, by using the `archivebox config` CLI, or by editing the `ArchiveBox.conf` config file directly. ```bash archivebox config # view the entire config archivebox config --get CHROME_BINARY # view a specific value archivebox config --set CHROME_BINARY=chromium # set a config value env CHROME_BINARY=chromium archivebox add ... # set a value temporarily ``` **The config loading logic with all the options defined is here: [`archivebox/config.py`](https://github.com/ArchiveBox/ArchiveBox/blob/master/archivebox/config.py).** Most options are also documented on the **[Configuration Wiki page](https://github.com/ArchiveBox/ArchiveBox/wiki/Configuration)**. #### Most Common Options to Tweak ```bash # e.g. archivebox config --set TIMEOUT=120 TIMEOUT=120 # default: 60 add more seconds on slower networks CHECK_SSL_VALIDITY=True # default: False True = allow saving URLs w/ bad SSL SAVE_ARCHIVE_DOT_ORG=False # default: True False = disable Archive.org saving MAX_MEDIA_SIZE=1500m # default: 750m raise/lower youtubedl output size PUBLIC_INDEX=True # default: True whether anon users can view index PUBLIC_SNAPSHOTS=True # default: True whether anon users can view pages PUBLIC_ADD_VIEW=False # default: False whether anon users can add new URLs ```
## Dependencies For better security, easier updating, and to avoid polluting your host system with extra dependencies, **it is strongly recommended to use the official [Docker image](https://github.com/ArchiveBox/ArchiveBox/wiki/Docker)** with everything preinstalled for the best experience. To achieve high fidelity archives in as many situations as possible, ArchiveBox depends on a variety of 3rd-party tools and libraries that specialize in extracting different types of content. These optional dependencies used for archiving sites include: - `chromium` / `chrome` (for screenshots, PDF, DOM HTML, and headless JS scripts) - `node` & `npm` (for readability, mercury, and singlefile) - `wget` (for plain HTML, static files, and WARC saving) - `curl` (for fetching headers, favicon, and posting to Archive.org) - `youtube-dl` (for audio, video, and subtitles) - `git` (for cloning git repos) - and more as we grow... You don't need to install every dependency to use ArchiveBox. ArchiveBox will automatically disable extractors that rely on dependencies that aren't installed, based on what is configured and available in your `$PATH`. If not using Docker, make sure to keep the dependencies up-to-date yourself and check that ArchiveBox isn't reporting any incompatibility with the versions you install. ```bash # install python3 and archivebox with your system package manager # apt/brew/pip/etc install ... (see Quickstart instructions above) archivebox setup # auto install all the extractors and extras archivebox --version # see info and check validity of installed dependencies ``` Installing directly on **Windows without Docker or WSL/WSL2/Cygwin is not officially supported**, but some advanced users have reported getting it working.
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## Caveats ### Archiving Private Content If you're importing pages with private content or URLs containing secret tokens you don't want public (e.g Google Docs, paywalled content, unlisted videos, etc.), **you may want to disable some of the extractor methods to avoid leaking that content to 3rd party APIs or the public**. ```bash # don't save private content to ArchiveBox, e.g.: archivebox add 'https://docs.google.com/document/d/12345somePrivateDocument' archivebox add 'https://vimeo.com/somePrivateVideo' # without first disabling saving to Archive.org: archivebox config --set SAVE_ARCHIVE_DOT_ORG=False # disable saving all URLs in Archive.org # if extra paranoid or anti-Google: archivebox config --set SAVE_FAVICON=False # disable favicon fetching (it calls a Google API passing the URL's domain part only) archivebox config --set CHROME_BINARY=chromium # ensure it's using Chromium instead of Chrome ``` ### Security Risks of Viewing Archived JS Be aware that malicious archived JS can access the contents of other pages in your archive when viewed. Because the Web UI serves all viewed snapshots from a single domain, they share a request context and **typical CSRF/CORS/XSS/CSP protections do not work to prevent cross-site request attacks**. See the [Security Overview](https://github.com/ArchiveBox/ArchiveBox/wiki/Security-Overview#stealth-mode) page for more details. ```bash # visiting an archived page with malicious JS: https://127.0.0.1:8000/archive/1602401954/example.com/index.html # example.com/index.js can now make a request to read everything from: https://127.0.0.1:8000/index.html https://127.0.0.1:8000/archive/* # then example.com/index.js can send it off to some evil server ``` ### Saving Multiple Snapshots of a Single URL Support for saving multiple snapshots of each site over time will be [added eventually](https://github.com/ArchiveBox/ArchiveBox/issues/179) (along with the ability to view diffs of the changes between runs). For now **ArchiveBox is designed to only archive each URL with each extractor type once**. A workaround to take multiple snapshots of the same URL is to make them slightly different by adding a hash: ```bash archivebox add 'https://example.com#2020-10-24' ... archivebox add 'https://example.com#2020-10-25' ``` There is also a "Re-Snapshot" button in the UI to do this automatically.
Re-Snapshot Button in Admin UI

### Storage Requirements Because ArchiveBox is designed to ingest a firehose of browser history and bookmark feeds to a local disk, it can be much more disk-space intensive than a centralized service like the Internet Archive or Archive.today. However, as storage space gets cheaper and compression improves, you should be able to use it continuously over the years without having to delete anything. **ArchiveBox can use anywhere from ~1gb per 1000 articles, to ~50gb per 1000 articles**, mostly dependent on whether you're saving audio & video using `SAVE_MEDIA=True` and whether you lower `MEDIA_MAX_SIZE=750mb`. Storage requirements can be reduced by using a compressed/deduplicated filesystem like ZFS/BTRFS, or by turning off extractors methods you don't need. **Don't store large collections on older filesystems like EXT3/FAT** as they may not be able to handle more than 50k directory entries in the `archive/` folder. **Try to keep the `index.sqlite3` file on local drive (not a network mount)**, and ideally on an SSD for maximum performance, however the `archive/` folder can be on a network mount or spinning HDD.
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## Screenshots

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# Background & Motivation The aim of ArchiveBox is to enable more of the internet to be archived by empowering people to self-host their own archives. The intent is for all the web content you care about to be viewable with common software in 50 - 100 years without needing to run ArchiveBox or other specialized software to replay it. Vast treasure troves of knowledge are lost every day on the internet to link rot. As a society, we have an imperative to preserve some important parts of that treasure, just like we preserve our books, paintings, and music in physical libraries long after the originals go out of print or fade into obscurity. Whether it's to resist censorship by saving articles before they get taken down or edited, or just to save a collection of early 2010's flash games you love to play, having the tools to archive internet content enables to you save the stuff you care most about before it disappears.

^{Image from WTF is Link Rot?...}

The balance between the permanence and ephemeral nature of content on the internet is part of what makes it beautiful. I don't think everything should be preserved in an automated fashion--making all content permanent and never removable, but I do think people should be able to decide for themselves and effectively archive specific content that they care about. Because modern websites are complicated and often rely on dynamic content, ArchiveBox archives the sites in **several different formats** beyond what public archiving services like Archive.org/Archive.is save. Using multiple methods and the market-dominant browser to execute JS ensures we can save even the most complex, finicky websites in at least a few high-quality, long-term data formats. ## Comparison to Other Projects

▶ **Check out our [community page](https://github.com/ArchiveBox/ArchiveBox/wiki/Web-Archiving-Community) for an index of web archiving initiatives and projects.** A variety of open and closed-source archiving projects exist, but few provide a nice UI and CLI to manage a large, high-fidelity archive collection over time. ArchiveBox tries to be a robust, set-and-forget archiving solution suitable for archiving RSS feeds, bookmarks, or your entire browsing history (beware, it may be too big to store), ~~including private/authenticated content that you wouldn't otherwise share with a centralized service~~ (this is not recommended due to JS replay security concerns). ### Comparison With Centralized Public Archives Not all content is suitable to be archived in a centralized collection, wehther because it's private, copyrighted, too large, or too complex. ArchiveBox hopes to fill that gap. By having each user store their own content locally, we can save much larger portions of everyone's browsing history than a shared centralized service would be able to handle. The eventual goal is to work towards federated archiving where users can share portions of their collections with each other. ### Comparison With Other Self-Hosted Archiving Options ArchiveBox differentiates itself from [similar self-hosted projects](https://github.com/ArchiveBox/ArchiveBox/wiki/Web-Archiving-Community#Web-Archiving-Projects) by providing both a comprehensive CLI interface for managing your archive, a Web UI that can be used either indepenently or together with the CLI, and a simple on-disk data format that can be used without either. ArchiveBox is neither the highest fidelity, nor the simplest tool available for self-hosted archiving, rather it's a jack-of-all-trades that tries to do most things well by default. It can be as simple or advanced as you want, and is designed to do everything out-of-the-box but be tuned to suit your needs. *If you want better fidelity for very complex interactive pages with heavy JS/streams/API requests, check out [ArchiveWeb.page](https://archiveweb.page) and [ReplayWeb.page](https://replayweb.page).* *If you want more bookmark categorization and note-taking features, check out [Archivy](https://archivy.github.io/), [Memex](https://github.com/WorldBrain/Memex), [Polar](https://getpolarized.io/), or [LinkAce](https://www.linkace.org/).* *If you need more advanced recursive spider/crawling ability beyond `--depth=1`, check out [Browsertrix](https://github.com/webrecorder/browsertrix-crawler), [Photon](https://github.com/s0md3v/Photon), or [Scrapy](https://scrapy.org/) and pipe the outputted URLs into ArchiveBox.* For more alternatives, see our [list here](https://github.com/ArchiveBox/ArchiveBox/wiki/Web-Archiving-Community#Web-Archiving-Projects)...

## Internet Archiving Ecosystem Whether you want to learn which organizations are the big players in the web archiving space, want to find a specific open-source tool for your web archiving need, or just want to see where archivists hang out online, our Community Wiki page serves as an index of the broader web archiving community. Check it out to learn about some of the coolest web archiving projects and communities on the web!

- [Community Wiki](https://github.com/ArchiveBox/ArchiveBox/wiki/Web-Archiving-Community) - [The Master Lists](https://github.com/ArchiveBox/ArchiveBox/wiki/Web-Archiving-Community#the-master-lists) _Community-maintained indexes of archiving tools and institutions._ - [Web Archiving Software](https://github.com/ArchiveBox/ArchiveBox/wiki/Web-Archiving-Community#web-archiving-projects) _Open source tools and projects in the internet archiving space._ - [Reading List](https://github.com/ArchiveBox/ArchiveBox/wiki/Web-Archiving-Community#reading-list) _Articles, posts, and blogs relevant to ArchiveBox and web archiving in general._ - [Communities](https://github.com/ArchiveBox/ArchiveBox/wiki/Web-Archiving-Community#communities) _A collection of the most active internet archiving communities and initiatives._ - Check out the ArchiveBox [Roadmap](https://github.com/ArchiveBox/ArchiveBox/wiki/Roadmap) and [Changelog](https://github.com/ArchiveBox/ArchiveBox/wiki/Changelog) - Learn why archiving the internet is important by reading the "[On the Importance of Web Archiving](https://parameters.ssrc.org/2018/09/on-the-importance-of-web-archiving/)" blog post. - Reach out to me for questions and comments via [@ArchiveBoxApp](https://twitter.com/ArchiveBoxApp) or [@theSquashSH](https://twitter.com/thesquashSH) on Twitter
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# Documentation

We use the [Github wiki system](https://github.com/ArchiveBox/ArchiveBox/wiki) and [Read the Docs](https://archivebox.readthedocs.io/en/latest/) (WIP) for documentation. You can also access the docs locally by looking in the [`ArchiveBox/docs/`](https://github.com/ArchiveBox/ArchiveBox/wiki/Home) folder. ## Getting Started - [Quickstart](https://github.com/ArchiveBox/ArchiveBox/wiki/Quickstart) - [Install](https://github.com/ArchiveBox/ArchiveBox/wiki/Install) - [Docker](https://github.com/ArchiveBox/ArchiveBox/wiki/Docker) ## Reference - [Usage](https://github.com/ArchiveBox/ArchiveBox/wiki/Usage) - [Configuration](https://github.com/ArchiveBox/ArchiveBox/wiki/Configuration) - [Supported Sources](https://github.com/ArchiveBox/ArchiveBox/wiki/Quickstart#2-get-your-list-of-urls-to-archive) - [Supported Outputs](https://github.com/ArchiveBox/ArchiveBox/wiki#can-save-these-things-for-each-site) - [Scheduled Archiving](https://github.com/ArchiveBox/ArchiveBox/wiki/Scheduled-Archiving) - [Publishing Your Archive](https://github.com/ArchiveBox/ArchiveBox/wiki/Publishing-Your-Archive) - [Chromium Install](https://github.com/ArchiveBox/ArchiveBox/wiki/Chromium-Install) - [Security Overview](https://github.com/ArchiveBox/ArchiveBox/wiki/Security-Overview) - [Troubleshooting](https://github.com/ArchiveBox/ArchiveBox/wiki/Troubleshooting) - [Python API](https://docs.archivebox.io/en/latest/modules.html) (alpha) - [REST API](https://github.com/ArchiveBox/ArchiveBox/issues/496) (alpha) ## More Info - [Tickets](https://github.com/ArchiveBox/ArchiveBox/issues) - [Roadmap](https://github.com/ArchiveBox/ArchiveBox/wiki/Roadmap) - [Changelog](https://github.com/ArchiveBox/ArchiveBox/wiki/Changelog) - [Donations](https://github.com/ArchiveBox/ArchiveBox/wiki/Donations) - [Background & Motivation](https://github.com/ArchiveBox/ArchiveBox#background--motivation) - [Web Archiving Community](https://github.com/ArchiveBox/ArchiveBox/wiki/Web-Archiving-Community)
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# ArchiveBox Development All contributions to ArchiveBox are welcomed! Check our [issues](https://github.com/ArchiveBox/ArchiveBox/issues) and [Roadmap](https://github.com/ArchiveBox/ArchiveBox/wiki/Roadmap) for things to work on, and please open an issue to discuss your proposed implementation before working on things! Otherwise we may have to close your PR if it doesn't align with our roadmap. Low hanging fruit / easy first tickets:

### Setup the dev environment

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#### 1. Clone the main code repo (making sure to pull the submodules as well) ```bash git clone --recurse-submodules https://github.com/ArchiveBox/ArchiveBox cd ArchiveBox git checkout dev # or the branch you want to test git submodule update --init --recursive git pull --recurse-submodules ``` #### 2. Option A: Install the Python, JS, and system dependencies directly on your machine ```bash # Install ArchiveBox + python dependencies python3 -m venv .venv && source .venv/bin/activate && pip install -e '.[dev]' # or: pipenv install --dev && pipenv shell # Install node dependencies npm install # or archivebox setup # Check to see if anything is missing archivebox --version # install any missing dependencies manually, or use the helper script: ./bin/setup.sh ``` #### 2. Option B: Build the docker container and use that for development instead ```bash # Optional: develop via docker by mounting the code dir into the container # if you edit e.g. ./archivebox/core/models.py on the docker host, runserver # inside the container will reload and pick up your changes docker build . -t archivebox docker run -it archivebox init --setup docker run -it -p 8000:8000 \ -v $PWD/data:/data \ -v $PWD/archivebox:/app/archivebox \ archivebox server 0.0.0.0:8000 --debug --reload # (remove the --reload flag and add the --nothreading flag when profiling with the django debug toolbar) ```

### Common development tasks See the `./bin/` folder and read the source of the bash scripts within. You can also run all these in Docker. For more examples see the Github Actions CI/CD tests that are run: `.github/workflows/*.yaml`. #### Run in DEBUG mode

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```bash archivebox config --set DEBUG=True # or archivebox server --debug ... ```

#### Build and run a Github branch

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```bash docker build -t archivebox:dev https://github.com/ArchiveBox/ArchiveBox.git#dev docker run -it -v $PWD:/data archivebox:dev ... ```

#### Run the linters

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```bash ./bin/lint.sh ``` (uses `flake8` and `mypy`)

#### Run the integration tests

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```bash ./bin/test.sh ``` (uses `pytest -s`)

#### Make migrations or enter a django shell

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Make sure to run this whenever you change things in `models.py`. ```bash cd archivebox/ ./manage.py makemigrations cd path/to/test/data/ archivebox shell archivebox manage dbshell ``` (uses `pytest -s`)

#### Build the docs, pip package, and docker image

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(Normally CI takes care of this, but these scripts can be run to do it manually) ```bash ./bin/build.sh # or individually: ./bin/build_docs.sh ./bin/build_pip.sh ./bin/build_deb.sh ./bin/build_brew.sh ./bin/build_docker.sh ```

#### Roll a release

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(Normally CI takes care of this, but these scripts can be run to do it manually) ```bash ./bin/release.sh # or individually: ./bin/release_docs.sh ./bin/release_pip.sh ./bin/release_deb.sh ./bin/release_brew.sh ./bin/release_docker.sh ```

--- ## Further Reading - Home: [ArchiveBox.io](https://archivebox.io) - Demo: [Demo.ArchiveBox.io](https://demo.archivebox.io) - Docs: [Docs.ArchiveBox.io](https://docs.archivebox.io) - Wiki: [Wiki.ArchiveBox.io](https://wiki.archivebox.io) - Issues: [Issues.ArchiveBox.io](https://issues.archivebox.io) - Forum: [Forum.ArchiveBox.io](https://forum.archivebox.io) - Releases: [Releases.ArchiveBox.io](https://releases.archivebox.io) - Donations: [Github.com/sponsors/pirate](https://github.com/sponsors/pirate) ---

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