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Has anyone used ArchiveBox for self hosted web archiving? If so, what are your thoughts on it compared to Internet Archive or other publicly available services?
Has anyone used ArchiveBox for self hosted web archiving? If so, what are your thoughts on it compared to Internet Archive or other publicly available services?
I have been experimenting with it, for what it is, it works pretty well … for now. I have concerns about the fact that it’s a ton of moving parts basically duct-taped together by an abuse of the Django admin (that’s the web app platform it’s based on, which I was a developer for long ago). Also, the search function is primitive at best. I don’t think it’s going to be my long-term solution for this need, but maybe I’m wrong.
The archived pages are available as files on disk, I also added a script which generates index.html so I can browse it without starting the program. Basically the only time I run archivebox code is when adding a new site. And I never look at the GUI, it adds nothing to the table