Pocket Stream Archive
Productivity
web archiving
SHOW HN2017
How HN took it
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
Each row is a top-level comment and its replies, in HN's order. Select a cell to open that comment on HN.
positive neutral or mixed critical about another commenter or something else the maker
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 HNNow if only Chromium could learn to write WARC archives, then it would be on par! :) Great project!
anc84 on HNThis 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 HNIf 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 HNBut 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 HNIf 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 HNI 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 HNI 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 HN59 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