diff --git a/README.md b/README.md index c5230039..e8492472 100644 --- a/README.md +++ b/README.md @@ -25,7 +25,6 @@ curl -sSL 'https://get.archivebox.io' | sh # (or see pip/brew/Docker instruct Without active preservation effort, everything on the internet eventually dissapears or degrades. Archive.org does a great job as a centralized service, but saved URLs have to be public, and they can't save every type of content. *ArchiveBox is an open source tool that lets organizations & individuals archive both public & private web content while retaining control over their data. It can be used to save copies of bookmarks, preserve evidence for legal cases, backup photos from FB/Insta/Flickr or media from YT/Soundcloud/etc., save research papers, and more...* -
> ➡️ Get ArchiveBox with `pip install archivebox` on [Linux](#quickstart), [macOS](#quickstart), and [Windows](#quickstart) (WSL2), or via **[Docker](#quickstart)** ⭐️. @@ -51,10 +50,13 @@ It also detects any content featured *inside* pages & extracts it out into a fol - 💾 **Github**/**Gitlab**/etc. links ➡️ `clone of GIT source code`, `README`, `images`, ... - ✨ *and more, see [Output Formats](#output-formats) below...* +You can run ArchiveBox as a Docker web app to manage these snapshots, or continue accessing the same collection using the `pip`-installed CLI, Python API, and SQLite3 APIs. +All the ways of using it are equivalent, and provide matching features like adding tags, scheduling regular crawls, viewing logs, and more... +

-🛠️ ArchiveBox uses [standard tools](#dependencies) like Chrome, `wget`, & `yt-dlp`, and stores data in [ordinary files & folders](#archive-layout). +🛠️ ArchiveBox uses [standard tools](#dependencies) like Chrome, [`wget`](https://www.gnu.org/software/wget/), & [`yt-dlp`](https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp), and stores data in [ordinary files & folders](#archive-layout). *(no complex proprietary formats, all data is readable without needing to run ArchiveBox)* The goal is to sleep soundly knowing the part of the internet you care about will be automatically preserved in durable, easily accessible formats [for decades](#background--motivation) after it goes down.