Pocket Stream Archive

Productivity

web archiving

SHOW HN2017

217points
68comments
#140of 2,242 in 2017
Top 7%of 2017 by points

How HN took it

CuriousMostly questions and neutral comments

10 positive, 26 neutral or asking, 1 mixed, 6 critical, out of 43 comments about the project. Thread score +0.05.

Idea: 8 for, 2 againstExecution: 1 for, 4 against

The thread, comment by comment

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What HN said

What people liked

  • Useful personal archiving tool that fills a real need

    From 3 comments
    • yes! thank you so much. Needed this badly.
      anotheryou on HN
    • Now if only Chromium could learn to write WARC archives, then it would be on par! :) Great project!
      anc84 on HN
    • This is great. All it needs is a Docker container and I'd be running it now (need to take some time aside this weekend to do that).
      rcarmo on HN
  • Suggestions to support Pinboard and Instapaper input

    From 2 comments
    • Would be cool to see this for Instapaper or Pinboard
      ents on HN
    • If it would be connected to Pinboard.in as an alternative to Pocket I would be screaming with joy. :-)
      unicornporn on HN

Objections

  • PDF output breaks on sites with broken print layouts or fixed-page assumptions

    From 2 comments
    • PDFs are really not suitable for archiving websites since they're designed around pages and the web does not have pages. A better option is to render a page with JS turned on and…
      driverdan on HN
    • But what do you do when a website has a broken media query, essentially destroying the print layout? Then a PDF is useless. Well, I took a screenshot, better than nothing.
      frik on HN
  • Images are not downloaded

    From 1 comment
    • The demo does not have images. Maybe try wget -nc -np -E -H -k -K -p -U 'Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8.1.6) Gecko/20070802 SeaMonkey/1.1.4' -e robots=off
      antman on HN

Requests

  • Pinboard support

    From 2 comments
    • If it would be connected to Pinboard.in as an alternative to Pocket I would be screaming with joy. :-)
      unicornporn on HN
    • If you can get me a sample pinboard export to look at, I'll whip up a regex that makes it work.
      nikisweeting on HN
  • WARC output option

    From 2 comments
    • Now if only Chromium could learn to write WARC archives, then it would be on par! :) Great project!
      anc84 on HN
    • I would be very on-board with adding a warc exporting option. I also hate how Chrome tosses all history older than 3 months. Running an archiving proxy hooked up to archive.py…
      nikisweeting on HN
  • Tag column or folders for finding articles

    From 2 comments
    • This is cool. Could you add an option to either add tagging, or separate the tagged items into folders? e.g. "programming/", "docker/" etc, I often find myself digging through my…
      djhworld on HN
    • I like having the sites by timestamp because they're guaranteed to be unique, and it makes traversing them easy. I'd be happy to add a tag column to the index though, which you…
      nikisweeting on HN

Questions

  • Which Chrome version is needed for headless PDF export

    From 2 comments
    • What version of Google Chrome do you need for the PDF export to work? I tried it on 58.0.3029.96 (Linux) and this does nothing (no error messages, it just quits without writing…
      avian on HN
    • 59 or later, --headless is a brand new feature. apt-get install google-chrome-canary. https://developers.google.com/web/updates/2017/04/headless-chrome
      nikisweeting on HN

Alternatives named

  • Firefox ScrapBook

    From 1 comment
    • I still use Firefox ScrapBook for this: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/scrapbook/ Just for articles, mind you, not entire websites.
      vijucat on HN
  • Zotero

    From 1 comment
    • Use zotero and you have your own personal Pocket with snapshots. In addition, you can add tags, organize stuff into folders, etc. https://www.zotero.org/
      throw98987 on HN
  • wallabag

    From 1 comment
    • I've been running wallabag[1] for my own pocket instance. It's been running perfectly for a couple years. Also has a pocket import feature. [1] https://wallabag.org/en
      ticoombs on HN
  • wpull and grab-site

    From 1 comment
    • Highly recommend switching to wpull (https://github.com/chfoo/wpull), which was built as a wget replacement. It's what grab-site uses, which is a successor to ArchiveTeam's…
      toomuchtodo on HN
  • Archive.org

    From 1 comment
    • Why is archive.org or one of the other centralized web archives not suitable for that? They don't index the content you want to retain?
      bicubic on HN

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