ArchiveBox/archivebox-extension

Automatically or manually send pages from your browser to your ArchiveBox for archival.

🗃 ArchiveBox Browser Extension

This is a browser extension (works in Chrome, Firefox, and Chrome-like browsers) that lets you automatically send pages from domains you specify to your ArchiveBox instance. This has a couple of benefits:

• You have a fulltext search of your browsing history ready at your fingertips
• Prevent link rot for important information!
• Access important information even if you're offline

Download

• Chrome/Edge/Other Chromium
• Firefox

Setup

1. Set up an ArchiveBox server and make sure it's accessible to the machine you're browsing on
2. Configure your ArchiveBox server to allow URL submissions without requiring login (more info here...)

   archivebox config --set PUBLIC_ADD_VIEW=True
   # (make sure to restart the server after to apply this change)

   
3. Configure the extension to point to your ArchiveBox server's base URL (e.g. http://localhost:8000, https://archivebox.example.com, etc.)
   
4. ✅ Test it out by right-clicking on any page and selecting ArchiveBox Exporter > Archive Current Page
   

Features

• Different archive modes
  • Allowlist mode doesn't archive pages by default, and lets you specify domains or regexes to archive
  • Blocklist mode archives all visited pages by default, but lets you specify domains or regexes to not archive
• Archive any arbitrary page with the "Archive Current Page" context menu item
• Archive any link with the "Archive Link" context menu item

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Development

If you wish to contribute to (or just build for yourself) this extension, you will need to download and install Node.js.

Once that's installed, navigate to this project's root and run npm install to install dependencies.

To build a production version (minified, optimized, etc.), run npm run build.

If you plan on making changes often, you can use the command npm run dev to automatically rebuild the extension as you modify files.

Both commands will produce an output in the dist directory.

Changelog

2024-01 Extension repo moved from tjhorner/archivebox-exporter to Archivebox/archivebox-extension

https://github.com/ArchiveBox/archivebox-extension

2021-09 Extension offically supported by ArchiveBox v0.6.2, no longer needed to run :dev branch

https://github.com/tjhorner/ArchiveBox.git#temporary-add-api

2021-07 Initial extension published on Chrome and Mozilla web stores

ArchiveBox/ArchiveBox#577 (comment)

2021-06 @tjhorner Created the initial archivebox-exporter extension

ArchiveBox/ArchiveBox#577

Related Projects

• https://github.com/layderv/archivefox (user-contributed extension for Firefox)
• https://github.com/Gertje823/ArchiveboxTelegramBot (Telegram Bot to send URLs to ArchiveBox)
• https://github.com/TheCakeIsNaOH/xbs-to-archivebox (Download your bookmarks from xBrowserSync, filter them, and save them into ArchiveBox)
• https://github.com/emschu/archivebox-quick-add (golang utility to add links to ArchiveBox)
• https://github.com/FracturedCode/archivebox-reddit (automatically back up saved Reddit comments, posts, etc. to ArchiveBox)
• https://github.com/thomaspaulin/archive-box-bridge (simple Golang server that accepts URLs and passes them on to ArchiveBox)
• https://github.com/dbeley/reddit_export_userdata (older Python utility to archive reddit content to ArchiveBox)
• https://github.com/gildas-lormeau/SingleFile
• ArchiveBox/ArchiveBox#577

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License

MIT License