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Show HN: Self-hosted offline Internet from your browsing history
Author : graderjs
Score : 297 points
Date : 2020-11-11 16:15 UTC (6 hours ago)
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| segmondy wrote:
| I just wanna cache all my bookmarks, I rarely look at them, but
| when I do go look at them, a good chunk tend to have rotted. It
| will be awesome to cache all my bookmarks and then have option to
| recursively cache the path I'm in. I don't want to cache every
| page I visit, 90% is junk.
| knyazhefilms wrote:
| >have option to recursively cache the path I'm in
|
| It's interesting, what do you mean by that?
| jb775 wrote:
| Would be cool if you could create a whitelist of websites, then
| have a feature to check if any other users have more recent
| versions of those sites (if they happen to be online). This way
| you get decentralized site updates without actually going to each
| site itself.
| cutemonster wrote:
| Yes. But also keep one's own originally downloaded version, in
| case the newer version is messed up
|
| And even more cool: If one could browse one's friends' sites,
| while everyone was offline (if their privacy / sharing settings
| allowed), just a local net in maybe a rural village
|
| Edit: roadmap: "Distributed p2p web browser on IPFS" -- is that
| it? :-)
| severine wrote:
| Given the hard 'no' in the FAQ, does anyone know about a similar
| project for Firefox?
| rzzzt wrote:
| Could the "HAR" file I can save from Firefox' Network tab
| somehow be used for this? That looks to be a recording from the
| entire timeline, including payloads.
| franga2000 wrote:
| I have used HAR files for archiving purposes in the past and
| it did work fairly well, but I'm not sure if there's a way of
| getting them programmatically
| BlackLotus89 wrote:
| Like the title of the github repo suggests ArchiveBox can be
| used. You have to manually import your browsing history
| though....
|
| In theory you could also use yacy... But that is intended as
| search engine and not as archive.
|
| Edit: while looking into it I found alternatives [2] and Memex
| [3] seems to be interesting.
|
| Edit2: I remember 2 Show HNs. One recorded your entire desktop
| and made it searchable. Can't remember what that was called,
| but the AllSeingEye I found [4]
|
| [0] https://archivebox.io/
|
| [1] https://yacy.net/
|
| [2] https://docs.archivebox.io/en/latest/Web-Archiving-
| Community...
|
| [3] https://getmemex.com/
|
| [4] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7886270
| severine wrote:
| Thanks for your answer, I had missed ArchiveBox completely!
|
| I currently use Memex, but this is different approach, and I
| keep looking for a polished experience that can get more
| mainstream users into archiving/offline browsing.
| vezycash wrote:
| Add webrecoder to the list
| BlackLotus89 wrote:
| It's now called Conifer and listed under my [2] link :) but
| thank you for mentioning it by name so I could look it up
| again, seems interesting.
|
| Looks like I got some research for this week
| tiborsaas wrote:
| I'd love to see an entry in the FAQ explaining the weird name.
| guavaNinja wrote:
| Just the port they used by default, to help remember it
| deelawn wrote:
| Seems cool, but can someone explain to me the need for all of the
| obfuscated code in the files with "22120" in the name?
| totony wrote:
| I think those are the build artifacts
| alliao wrote:
| I miss RSS primarily because I was able to search for stuff
| either I've read or I care about...
|
| I am too embarrassed to admit that a disproportionate amount of
| my time are spent on looking for a sentence or god forbid a tweet
| I vaguely remember reading last week.
|
| SO yes, consider this a vote for that sexy full text search
| please.
| [deleted]
| avmich wrote:
| Awesome thing, but -
|
| > Can I use this with a browser that's not Chrome-based? > No.
|
| Note that a (rather similar) thing I've participated in in 2002
| was browser-neutral.
| nosmokewhereiam wrote:
| This is really cool. Thank you for being open source.
| xiphias2 wrote:
| I'd love to use this on my mobile, as that's where I mostly have
| problems with connecting to internet, but it still looks pretty
| interesting
| peterburkimsher wrote:
| It looks like something I'd appreciate! I make a significant
| effort to archive things that I think I'll need.
|
| Unfortunately it didn't work when I just tried installing it now
| (macOS 10.13.6, node v14.8.0). MacBook-
| Pro:Desktop peter$ npx archivist1 npx: installed 79 in
| 8.282s Preferences file does not exist. Creating one...
| Args usage: <server_port> <save|serve> <chrome_port>
| <library_path> Updating base path from undefined to
| /Users/peter... Archive directory
| (/Users/peter/22120-arc/public/library) does not exist,
| creating... Created. Cache file does not exist,
| creating... Created! Index file does not exist,
| creating... Created! Base path updated to:
| /Users/peter. Saving to preferences... Saved! Running
| in node... Importing dependencies... Attempting to
| shut running chrome... There was no running chrome.
| Removing 22120's existing temporary browser cache if it exists...
| Launching library server... Library server started.
| Waiting 1 second...
| {"server_up":{"upAt":"2020-11-11T21:48:25.324Z","port":22120}}
| Launching chrome... (node:33988)
| UnhandledPromiseRejectionWarning: Error: connect ECONNREFUSED
| 127.0.0.1:9222 at TCPConnectWrap.afterConnect [as
| oncomplete] (net.js:1144:16) (Use `node --trace-warnings
| ...` to show where the warning was created) (node:33988)
| UnhandledPromiseRejectionWarning: Unhandled promise rejection.
| This error originated either by throwing inside of an async
| function without a catch block, or by rejecting a promise which
| was not handled with .catch(). To terminate the node process on
| unhandled promise rejection, use the CLI flag `--unhandled-
| rejections=strict` (see
| https://nodejs.org/api/cli.html#cli_unhandled_rejections_mode).
| (rejection id: 1) (node:33988) [DEP0018]
| DeprecationWarning: Unhandled promise rejections are deprecated.
| In the future, promise rejections that are not handled will
| terminate the Node.js process with a non-zero exit code.
| (node:33988) UnhandledPromiseRejectionWarning: TypeError: Cannot
| read property 'writeFileSync' of undefined at ae (/User
| s/peter/.npm/_npx/33988/lib/node_modules/archivist1/22120.js:321:
| 14209) at Object.changeMode (/Users/peter/.npm/_npx/339
| 88/lib/node_modules/archivist1/22120.js:321:8088) at /U
| sers/peter/.npm/_npx/33988/lib/node_modules/archivist1/22120.js:3
| 21:16174 at s.handle_request (/Users/peter/.npm/_npx/33
| 988/lib/node_modules/archivist1/22120.js:128:783) at s
| (/Users/peter/.npm/_npx/33988/lib/node_modules/archivist1/22120.j
| s:121:879) at p.dispatch (/Users/peter/.npm/_npx/33988/
| lib/node_modules/archivist1/22120.js:121:901) at
| s.handle_request (/Users/peter/.npm/_npx/33988/lib/node_modules/a
| rchivist1/22120.js:128:783) at /Users/peter/.npm/_npx/3
| 3988/lib/node_modules/archivist1/22120.js:114:2533 at
| Function.v.process_params (/Users/peter/.npm/_npx/33988/lib/node_
| modules/archivist1/22120.js:114:3436) at b (/Users/pete
| r/.npm/_npx/33988/lib/node_modules/archivist1/22120.js:114:2476)
| (node:33988) UnhandledPromiseRejectionWarning: Unhandled promise
| rejection. This error originated either by throwing inside of an
| async function without a catch block, or by rejecting a promise
| which was not handled with .catch(). To terminate the node
| process on unhandled promise rejection, use the CLI flag
| `--unhandled-rejections=strict` (see
| https://nodejs.org/api/cli.html#cli_unhandled_rejections_mode).
| (rejection id: 3) ^CCleanup called on reason: SIGINT
| MacBook-Pro:Desktop peter$
| halukakin wrote:
| This was a nice ie feature 20 years ago.
|
| https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/196646/how-to-make-...
| atum47 wrote:
| Very interesting indeed. I remember having to paste a script in
| the console in order to be able to view my cached files.
| abnry wrote:
| I am coding my own hacked together bookmarks manager. I can save
| any page with a click of the button using SingleFile (a fantastic
| Chrome extension, by the way!).
|
| Then a cronjob runs and puts it into a folder to be processed
| into a database, which generates a static html index and puts it
| in my Google Drive.
|
| Then it syncs offline on my chromebook. Which means that without
| internet, I can put my chromebook in tablet mode and do some nice
| reading. I've been very pleased so far.
| johnmaguire2013 wrote:
| Any chance you have this open-sourced or described in more
| detail somewhere?
| abnry wrote:
| It's too hackish, system dependent, and not feature complete
| yet. I plan to run it as a flask app on the local network as
| a more intuitive way of tagging and managing bookmarks... lot
| more to do.
| kilroy_jones wrote:
| I had started working on something similar to this, but without
| the Google Drive component. I wanted something where I could
| right click and "snag" a file, link or document and have it
| saved to a server I controlled.
|
| It's not complete, mostly because the frontend is a mess, but
| the backend is able to save files, pages and links
| (https://gitlab.com/thebird/snag). Used Rust backend, Svelte
| and JS for the extension (of course).
| rezeroed wrote:
| Pocket?
| throwii wrote:
| I currently extract bookmarks from Firefox and Safari and store
| them inside a local database. Then a cronjob saves them to
| Wayback machine if a prior check revealed that they are
| currently not.. donating regularly for that. Mine just makes
| sure that the pages are not lost, but yours enables offline
| reading.
|
| I'm uncertain what the best mechanism is, there are so many
| ways to solve it. From filtering to recrawling for new content
| to enabling more advanced features, there are so many
| possibilities.
| agumonkey wrote:
| one day this will be as famous as youtube-dl
| jbc1 wrote:
| https://github.com/pirate/ArchiveBox
| darepublic wrote:
| Interesting stuff I will look into this more
| wooptoo wrote:
| Isn't this how the internet was supposed to work in the first
| place? I remember Netscape navigator having a 'go offline' icon
| in the corner.
| rusk wrote:
| Kind of. HTTP was designed with caching in mind, so the idea
| was that if you GET a page it should more or less not change
| and you could add headers and stuff to instruct proxy servers
| about whether to cache or not and for how long. I think you
| could use HEAD then to check if a page had changed ...
|
| The browser cache used to actually be quite dependable as an
| offline way to view pages but this seems to have fallen out of
| favour in the mid naughties. I remember how disgusted I was
| when I realised Safari was no longer me letting see a page
| unless it could contact the server and download the latest
| version.
|
| I used to have a caching proxy server that would basically MITM
| my browsing and be more vigilant than even the cache and it
| really worked quite well. This was back in the 90s when every
| bit of your max 54kbs counted, or when you wanted to read
| something while your Dad or sister wanted to also use the
| phone.
|
| Anyway, you can no longer take this approach because bad people
| broke the Internet and now you have to have a great honking
| opaque TLS layer between you and the caching servers so there's
| no way for this optimisation to work any more.
|
| Of course it isn't really as important these days because we've
| got faster connections and interactions with the server are far
| less transactional and richer. But I still would like to have a
| way of tracking my own webusage and being able to go back in
| time without having to actually revisit each and every site.
|
| These days you have to hack the browser because that's where
| your TLS endpoint emerges. Kaspersky tried this for their HTTP
| firewall application and there was ructions over that.
|
| I'll defo take a look at this. Sounds just like what I've been
| looking for.
|
| > Isn't this how the internet was supposed to work in the first
| place? I remember Netscape navigator having a 'go offline' icon
| in the corner.
|
| Thinking back actually, if you forget about "the web"/HTTP -
| then yes actually - this is exactly how usenet worked and now
| I'm remembering that the "go offline" button used to download
| all your newsgroups along with your email and stuff so you
| could look at it all offline :-)
|
| If you want something that's like Usenet these days check out
| Scuttlebut.
| romanoderoma wrote:
| Don't know if recently it changed, but that's how internet in
| Cuba works (at least until 2014)
|
| https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.theguardian.com/world/2014/...
| lights0123 wrote:
| Firefox still has it under File.
| runxel wrote:
| Sure, but does it do anything?
| teddyh wrote:
| In the modern hamburger menu, it's under "More".
| anonymfus wrote:
| Ever if you have menu disabled, you can still open it by
| pressing Alt, no need to suffer using hamburger.
| reaperducer wrote:
| I remember that button, too, but I think it had more to do with
| connection charges than caching.
|
| In Netscape days, many people would have to pay by the minute
| to be connected to the internet. In those days, web pages
| generally contained far more information than they do now, and
| were less interactive. So you'd connect, load the content you
| wanted to see, disconnect, and then just sit there and read it
| for free, instead of bleeding cash.
| asdff wrote:
| Or even dialup. Expecting a phone call? Go offline.
| rusk wrote:
| Back in the nineties the web was fairly new and people still
| used a thing called usenet quite a bit. You interacted with
| it kind of like email (Google groups is actually the final
| vestiges of it) - and the go offline button would just
| download all your emails and newsgroups and you got peruse
| them offline at your pleasure. It might seem strange also
| that back in those days you downloaded your emails from a
| server using POP3 rather than looking at them remotely (e.g.
| Web or IMAP), and you viewed them offline.
| derefr wrote:
| I'm not sure that was the use-case. With pre-DHTML HTML4,
| there really just wasn't anything on a page that could
| continue to interact with the server after the page finished
| loading. So, presuming the button was for your described use-
| case, what would the difference be between "going offline"
| and just... not clicking any more links? (It's not like
| Netscape could or _should_ signal your modem to hang up --
| Netscape doesn 't know what else in your OS might also be
| using the modem.)
| Donald wrote:
| You must be young :)
|
| These browsers were born in the era of dialup Internet that
| had per minute charges and/or long distance charges. At the
| very least you were tying up your family's phone line.
|
| Basically it's like paying for every minute your cable
| modem is plugged in.
|
| For the feature itself: Netscape had integration with the
| modem connectivity for the OS and would initiate a
| connection when you tried to visit a remote page. Offline
| mode let you disable automatic dialing of the modem.
| derefr wrote:
| I ran a BBS, my friend :) I'm quite familiar with modems.
| I just never used Windows (or the web!) until well past
| the Netscape era, so I'm not too familiar with the
| intersection of modems and early web browsers.
|
| > Netscape had integration with the modem connectivity
| for the OS and would initiate a connection when you tried
| to visit a remote page.
|
| That's not "integration with modem connectivity", that's
| just going through the OS's socket API (or userland
| socket stack, e.g. Trumpet Winsock); where the socket
| library dials the modem to serve the first bind(2). Sort
| of like auto-mounting a network share to serve a VFS
| open(2).
|
| Try it yourself: boot up a Windows 95 OSR2 machine with a
| (configured) modem, and try e.g. loading your Outlook
| Express email. The modem will dial. It's a feature of the
| socket stack.
|
| These socket stacks would also automatically hang up the
| modem if the stack was idle (= no open sockets) for long
| enough.
|
| My point was that a quiescent HTML4 browser _has_ no open
| sockets, whether or not it 's intentionally "offline." If
| you do as you say -- load up a bunch of pages, and then
| sit there reading them -- your modem _will_ hang up,
| whether or not you play with Netscape 's toggles.
|
| (On single-tasking OSes like DOS -- where a TCP/IP socket
| stack would be a part of a program, rather than a part of
| the OS -- there was software that would eagerly hang up
| the modem whenever its internal socket refcount dropped
| to zero. But this isn't really a useful strategy for a
| multitasking OS, since a lot of things -- e.g. AOL's
| chatroom software presaging AIM -- would love to poll
| _just_ often enough to cause the line that had just
| disconnected to reconnect. Since calls were charged per-
| minute rather than per-second, these reconnects had
| overhead costs!)
|
| > [Netscape's] offline mode let you disable automatic
| dialing of the modem.
|
| When you do... what?
|
| When you first open the browser, to avoid loading your
| home page? (I guess that's sensible, especially if you're
| using Netscape in its capacity as an email client to read
| your already-synced email; or using it to author and test
| HTML; or using it to read local HTML documentation. And
| yet, not _too_ sensible, since you need to _open_ the
| browser to _get_ to that toggle... is this a thing you
| had to think about in advance, like turning off your AC
| before shutting off your car?)
|
| But I think you're implying that it's for when you try to
| navigate to a URL in the address bar, or click a link.
|
| In which case, would the page, in fact, be served from
| the client-side cache, or would you just get nothing?
| (Was HTTP client-side caching even a _thing_ in the early
| 90s? Did disks have the room to _hold_ client-side
| caches? Did web servers by-and-large _bother_ to send
| HTTP /1.0 Expires and Last-Modified headers? Etc.)
| fiddlerwoaroof wrote:
| I used to go into offline-mode so the browser would
| access pages from the cache when I went to their URLs. It
| wasn't a ton, but it was enough that you could queue up a
| handful of sites, go offline and then, if you
| accidentally closed the tab, re-open it and see the
| caches version.
| rzzzt wrote:
| Server-Sent Events? How old is that mechanism?
| [deleted]
| yamrzou wrote:
| This uses Chrome DevTools Protocol in a pretty clever way. I used
| it to archive a highly interactive website and it worked like a
| charm.
|
| The README states: "It runs connected to a browser, and so is
| able to access the full-scope of resources (with, currently, the
| exception of video, audio and websockets, for now)"
|
| I wonder what kind of limitations makes it hard to intercept
| those resources like the rest of the content.
| jmaygarden wrote:
| Video and audio is probably just a matter of not having gotten
| around to it yet. WebSockets are another matter. I'm not sure
| what one would do with a two-way channel in a general sense.
| It's often not an idempotent operation.
| nexuist wrote:
| Video files are massive, so it may just be the case that
| archiving videos takes so long they didn't want to support it.
| harlanji wrote:
| I could smash in the audio visual, as my platform is all about
| archiving and being the origin for a CDN-fronted open offline-
| first platform with minimal resources that can go into a boat
| etc. tinydatacenter.com, Github / harlanji /
| ispooge,tinydatacenter, biz@harlanji.com - need $375/wk.
| a254613e wrote:
| I remember seeing this on reddit, the license changed quite a lot
| over the past month, with some very weird custom licenses asking
| you not to be a fake victim, lie, etc in the process -
| https://github.com/c9fe/22120/commits/master/LICENSE - how safe
| is it to assume that the current license will stay?
| ciarannolan wrote:
| Assuming good faith in the creator of this, it looks like they
| tried to type up something that they thought would cover their
| bases, then realized that wasn't right and copy/pasted in a
| real license.
| yuskii wrote:
| This post has made me angor;
| caymanjim wrote:
| This is a neat idea, but I wish it would respect some basic Unix
| standards by default. Two big annoyances jump out at first
| glance: it assumes you want to use port 22120, and it puts its
| config in ~/22120-arc. Maybe both of these are configurable, but
| the directory is a terrible default. Use XDG (~/.config/22120) or
| _at least_ use a hidden directory in the home dir. And the port
| it operates on should be completely configurable. Naming the
| project 22120 is a terrible idea, and assuming that port won 't
| need to change is bad practice.
|
| I'm not making any value judgment about the actual tool. It
| sounds interesting enough. But it should behave better.
| fizixer wrote:
| I agree what you say while also pointing out that unix home
| directory has become a complete mess. Anyone (any installed
| software) can do whatever they like, there is no mechanism of
| enforcement, and advice in the form of constructive critque or
| comment is not even a drop in the bucket towards fixing the
| problem.
| lxgr wrote:
| Very interesting project.
|
| I wish this was actually (optional) built-in behavior for
| browsers when bookmarking pages, or at least when adding to a
| "read later" list like Pocket/Instapaper etc.
|
| Pocket seems to offer something like this, but only in the
| premium version, so the "permanent archive" ironically seems to
| go away when unsubscribing.
|
| As a workaround, what if bookmarking a (public) page could
| actually ping it to archive.org for archival?
| sbeckeriv wrote:
| selfplug: https://sbeckeriv.github.io/personal_search/
|
| I am working on a personal project that like this. It is in
| early stages. I am creating a local search based on my browser
| history. So it doesnt crawl pages. Also the fetch is out of
| bounds of the browser so Authed urls are not supported out of
| the box.
|
| I have a bookmarklet currently that lets met "pin" my page. my
| pinned pages are my new home page. Its how I keep my tabs
| closed.
|
| I do not do a full archive level (but i could). Instead you get
| an offline view that is stripped of most things. example
| https://raw.githubusercontent.com/sbeckeriv/personal_search/...
|
| Demo of the pin:
|
| https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5g_mXXFwQlg
|
| a self hosted version is on the roadmap.
| asaddhamani wrote:
| I have a project https://www.github.com/dhamaniasad/crestify
| that does the archival to archive.org and archive.today, you
| might find it useful
| shrike wrote:
| Pinboard.in (not affiliated, just a happy customer) offers an
| archiving service for saved bookmarks.
| tokamak-teapot wrote:
| What it doesn't offer is an integration with the browser to
| make it seamless to work with those bookmarks. There are
| various extensions for Firefox which will save to Pinboard
| (one of them is mine!) but to work with them - you have the
| option of going to the website or using the mobile site in a
| sidebar (I do this, with some custom css to make it more
| readable for me).
|
| There's a nice MacOS application (sorry can't remember the
| name right now) which gives you a better interface, but...
| they're bookmarks. I would like them to be integrated with
| rather browser bookmarks. And to be usable when the site is
| down or I'm offline. And to appear when I search... lots of
| possibilities there.
| severine wrote:
| _I wish this was actually (optional) built-in behavior for
| browsers when bookmarking pages, or at least when adding to a
| "read later" list like Pocket/Instapaper etc._
|
| Sideshow Ask HN: Didn't Firefox mobile work like this? I could
| read the reader view items offline...
|
| Anyone knows what's happening with the whole
| bookmarks/collections situation?
| gildas wrote:
| I implemented some options for that purpose in SingleFile [1].
| They allow you to save the page when you bookmark it and
| eventually replace the URL of the page with the file URI on
| your disk.
|
| [1] https://github.com/gildas-lormeau/SingleFile
| johnchristopher wrote:
| Cool, I was so into maff back in the days. I'll give it a
| try.
|
| (I even wrote this before checking out your link: Have you
| heard of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mozilla_Archive_Format
| from two or three Internets ago ? If so what's your thoughts
| on it ?)
| gildas wrote:
| I would recommend you to take a look at SingleFileZ [1], it
| should remind you of something ;)
|
| [1] https://github.com/gildas-lormeau/SingleFileZ
| toomuchtodo wrote:
| Why a zip file instead of a WARC file?
|
| https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_ARChive
| walski wrote:
| see: https://github.com/c9fe/22120#why-not-warc-or-another-
| format...
|
| > Both WARC and MHTML require mutilatious modifications of
| the resources so that the resources can be "forced to fit"
| the format. At 22120, we believe this is not required
| gildas wrote:
| Because it's easier to produce and extract. The zip format
| also allows creating self-extracting files (I'm referring
| to SingleFileZ). I'm not sure this is possible with the
| WARC format.
| toomuchtodo wrote:
| I see you answered this in a thread a year ago [1] (came
| up in a Google search), my apologies.
|
| [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21426056
| kall wrote:
| This is a feature of iOS safari with the read later list. It's
| not been particularly reliable for me though.
| lxgr wrote:
| iOS's implementation is definitely useful, but I was thinking
| more along the lines of a permanent archive persistently
| stored.
|
| iOS seems to optimize for temporary offline scenarios; saved
| pages do not seem to be backed up or synced to iCloud.
| kall wrote:
| Yeah. I also assume it deletes the pages after they are
| "read" but who knows, there's no insight into the feature.
|
| The best bookmarking option for archival seems to be the
| pinboard.in archive plan.
| xtiansimon wrote:
| I've been storing my research as text files (manual copy and
| paste of web page content) for years.
|
| And, I've wanted a _search history first_ plugin for web search
| to find pages I missed saving, but recall reading.
|
| Since the former takes time and the latter doesn't exist, I
| gather I could buy storage and save browsing using this tool.
|
| It would be interesting to see how it works in practice--saving
| so much data.
|
| Also, For work I'd be interested to know how it works for
| password protected sites like banking, social media, etc.
| ryanfox wrote:
| I've been working on an app that's pretty much exactly "the
| latter"! [0]
|
| The amount of disk space it takes up isn't crazy. It has been
| _very_ useful for me.
|
| [0] https://apse.io
| hiisukun wrote:
| Just chiming in to say that Firefox location bar has some great
| filters [1] that might help you search history first (and other
| things). It doesn't do a full text search, but often helps me
| in a way I think you're after.
|
| If you type: "^ worms" in the searchbar it will search your
| history for 'worms' and show the results in the dropdown.
| Typing "* worms" will search your bookmarks instead. The rest
| of the shortcut symbols are listed on the linked page. Hope
| that helps!
|
| [1] http://kb.mozillazine.org/Location_Bar_search
| dksidana wrote:
| Reminds me days of Webaroo[1] and Google grears[2]
|
| [1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Webaroo [2]
| https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gears_(software)
| lxgr wrote:
| Ah, that brings back memories. Didn't Palm OS have something
| similar? I think it was Plucker [1], but I'm not too sure.
|
| [1]
| reaperducer wrote:
| Yep. With Plucker, I could download the New York Times web
| site (I think via RSS) before I went to work, sync it to my
| Palm Pilot, and then read it on my lunch.
| ghostbrainalpha wrote:
| Very cool idea. I always bring my laptop with me camping in case
| I get the urge to write something.
|
| Having the ability to see the last week or so of my browsing
| history would have come in handy on more than one occasion.
| jsilence wrote:
| Awesome! I always wanted this and at one point tried to achieve
| it with WWWOFFLE, but the welcome proliferation of https thwarted
| that attempt.
|
| Gonna check it.
|
| Unfortunately only for chrome. I am very much used to having my
| favourite set of Firefox plugins. Will have to check whether I
| can replicate that with Chrome.
| wolco2 wrote:
| Unfortunate state of affairs with firefox extentions. Niche
| extentions do not exist anymore.
|
| I had to switch to chrome for extensions. Finding a chrome
| extension that provides similiar functionality to your firefox
| ones should be easy.
| phkahler wrote:
| >> Unfortunate state of affairs with firefox extentions.
| Niche extentions do not exist anymore.
|
| This seems like something that could be done in a proxy and
| be browser independent.
| codetrotter wrote:
| But then your proxy would need to do the TLS termination.
| Which is both kinda cumbersome to set up probably, and also
| it means you can no longer look at the certificates for
| your connections.
| silon42 wrote:
| I've used http://www.gedanken.org.uk/software/wwwoffle/ a long
| time ago (when on modem).
|
| What I'd like is to cache the history for each page too
| (important for news pages).
| ppezaris wrote:
| Cool concept. In a world that's getting increasingly connected
| what are the main use-cases?
|
| I ask because the dev tool that our company creates occasionally
| (okay, very rarely) gets a question about offline mode, and when
| I prod, it's usually just out of curiosity, not because they
| actually need it in real life.
| lxgr wrote:
| This seems to geared towars "content goes down" scenarios,
| rather than "reader is temporarily offline".
|
| It's a concern I have every time I find a particularly
| interesting independently hosted blog post or article.
|
| The Internet Archive goes a long way towards making me worry
| about this less, though. (Let's just hope they don't go away!)
| reaperducer wrote:
| _In a world that 's getting increasingly connected what are the
| main use-cases?_
|
| Increasingly [?] totally.
|
| Even though I'm a developer, pre-pandemic I would have to spend
| a day or three offline several times a year while working. This
| would be useful for that.
|
| I know an IT guy who works in mines. He loves anything that
| works offline.
| jaggirs wrote:
| The coolest part I think is that you have a copy of all these
| websites on disk, which means you can run a full text search on
| all the websites you visited (or on their html, technically).
|
| Browsers'history sucks. I don't know if this project does this,
| but I would absolutely love to be able to do SQL queries on my
| browsing history.
|
| I have 'lost' many websites I remember visiting, but for which
| I didn't remember anything in the title.
|
| Also, obviously, websites change sometimes, and the web archive
| might not have cached the website you visited. Although from
| what I can tell, this project doesn't version websites, it just
| caches the latest, so you would probably just overwrite the
| previous version accidentally.
| hnguy321 wrote:
| Anyone know of something like this that can sit on a network,
| possibly as a web proxy?
| erulabs wrote:
| Squid (http://www.squid-cache.org/) is fairly close to what
| you're looking for.
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