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by hedora 41 days ago
As someone that uses AI agents, this makes me want to install a browser plugin for "public windows" that just archives everything I see, and then farms out clicks of content that are missing from those sites.

The result of this would be to upload it all to a bot-friendly alternative to archive.org.
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CaptainFever 41 days ago
That exists! Check out Hoardy Web. https://oxij.org/software/hoardy-web/

Its whole point is undetectable archiving because it just saves what your browser already sees.

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sunshine-o 41 days ago
Nice, I understand it is similar to ArchiveBox + its web extension.

Now to be honest, while it's optimal to archive pages from you browser view I am not sure I want a random web extension to be in everything I see from a security point of view.

I would rather have a local proxy doing it. Maybe something like the InternetArchive warcproc [0]. Haven't tried yet.

- [0] https://github.com/internetarchive/warcprox

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hexagonwin 41 days ago
for a short time i had warcprox sitting behind my firefox and auto feeding its output to pywb, it seemed to work but i had connections failing randomly after having warcprox running for more than a few hours~days. not sure if it's an issue with pywb or warcprox but there were some urls missing that i did browse on firefox, and many dynamic pages couldn't be replayed at all.
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sunshine-o 41 days ago
I am not surprised...

I am unfamiliar with web caching proxies like squid [0] but I am wondering if that might be the most straightforward way to do this.

So use squid and then have a batch job that go through /var/spool/squid every day and update your web archive according to some defined filters.

- [0] https://www.squid-cache.org/

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