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full-text search and archiving for your Chromium-based browser

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#full-text search#web archiving#chromium#browser history#offline archive

33points
10comments
#1,541of 3,515 in 2024
Top 44%of 2024 by points

How HN took it

CuriousMostly questions and neutral comments

1 positive, 4 neutral or asking, 0 mixed, 0 critical, out of 5 comments about the project. Thread score +0.07.

Docs: 1 for, 0 against

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What HN said

What people liked

  • Interest in a p2p internet mirror or shared archives

    From 2 comments
    • I imagine a p2p internet mirror.
      nsonha on HN
    • Yes, I want to expand it to that. I imagine with a helper server (or p2p service) that can serve your archive out to people you share it with. You could even have the index…
      keepamovin on HN

Requests

  • Firefox support

    From 1 comment
    • Great idea, please consider adding Firefox compatibility. I'd love to use this but I don't use Chrome or its reskins.
      Zetaphor on HN

Questions

  • How does it intercept traffic compared to a proxy

    From 3 comments
    • It looks like this works by making the browser use dn as a local proxy. That should also work with non-chromium based browser right ? I guess it will then be necessary to…
      loulouxiv on HN
    • Conceptually yes, but specifically it's implemented by intercepting the browser's internal fetch process. So it's like a "browser-internal" proxy -- or not a proxy at all. You…
      keepamovin on HN
    • What sort of API can be used for this? Is it a special proxy setting, extension or WebDriver client?
      TheMatten on HN

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