Is there an open source package that the Internet Archive runs? What is it? I assume sites like archive.is run the same. I’d like to know if I can also run it for self-hosted archiving.
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afaik, archive.org isnt open source. id recommend something like archivebox.io
Archive box is a piece of software and the Internet archive is a organization that is focused on predicting the content on the internet.
The Internet Archive has PBs worth of data. I doubt any home user could manage that.
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They’re beating the algorithm
i dont think op is looking to mirror archive.org, my take was that they wanted someyhing like archive.org but selfhosted and for personal / small-scale use
Exactly. I’m already running a local wiki, but I don’t want stuff I link to in my wiki to result in 404 in a few years. Or worse, to some AI-ridden ad-infested dumpster fire.
You can use something as simple as a browser extension like SingleFile that can automatically download complete, contained copies of anything bookmarked or only certain URLs.
Oh yes, this looks like a winner. Thanks!
It seems like it’s written in Python too, which means I can maintain it if need be.
Oh boy I wish I had set this up many years ago. I wouldn’t have to resort to scouring [email protected] for the top quality memes of the past when I need them…
On a far side of the moon note, I wonder if ActivityPub could be used to federate multiple archiveboxes to create a more resilient Internet Archive alternative. 🤔 Then integrate that with Lemmy to autoarchive links from posts. Aaand lemmy.world ran out of disk space. 🤣
a network between networks to make them more resilient i think you’ve just invented the arpanet?.
+1 for ArchiveBox
I believe they used heritrix at one point. The important bit is that there is a special archive format that they use which is a standard. There are several tools that support it (both capturing to it and viewing it) - it allows for capturing a website in a ‘working’ condition with history or something. I’m a bit fuzzy on it since it’s been some time since I looked into it.
It seems like all of their software is in the parent account of heritrix - https://github.com/orgs/internetarchive/repositories?type=all.
https://github.com/ArchiveBox/ArchiveBox/wiki/Web-Archiving-Community has a wide range of options
I don’t know for certain but I’m sure they run lots of different software. They have PBs of data.
Does Linkwarden fit your intended use?
Kind of. Linkwarden seems to save as PDF. That’s better than nothing, however preserving a functional copy of the pages would be better. Archivebox seems to do this.
