From e47a43f599b724b9950c4ad97e87dabdcc40f486 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Nick Sweeting Date: Fri, 30 Jun 2017 01:34:23 -0500 Subject: [PATCH] change default from Google-Chrome to chromium --- README.md | 61 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-------------- 1 file changed, 46 insertions(+), 15 deletions(-) diff --git a/README.md b/README.md index 8a0bad09..cf3bcd5f 100644 --- a/README.md +++ b/README.md @@ -7,10 +7,6 @@ Save an archived copy of all websites you star. Outputs browsable html archives of each site, a PDF, a screenshot, and a link to a copy on archive.org, all indexed in a nice html file. - -(Powered by the [headless](https://developers.google.com/web/updates/2017/04/headless-chrome) Chromium and good 'ol `wget`.) -NEW: Also submits each link to save on archive.org! - ![](screenshot.png) ## Quickstart @@ -37,7 +33,7 @@ Follow the links here to find instructions for each exporting bookmarks from eac ```bash git clone https://github.com/pirate/bookmark-archiver cd bookmark-archiver/ -sudo setup.sh +./setup.sh ./archive.py ~/Downloads/bookmark_export.html # replace this path with the path to your bookmarks export file ``` @@ -49,18 +45,22 @@ If you don't like `sudo` running random setup scripts off the internet (which yo **1. Install dependencies:** `chromium >= 59`,` wget >= 1.16`, `python3 >= 3.5` (google-chrome >= v59 also works well, no need to install chromium if you already have Google Chrome installed) +On Mac: ```bash -# On Mac: -brew install Caskroom/versions/google-chrome-canary wget python3 # or chromium, up to you -echo -e '#!/bin/bash\n/Applications/Google\ Chrome\ Canary.app/Contents/MacOS/Google\ Chrome\ Canary "$@"' > /usr/local/bin/google-chrome -chmod +x /usr/local/bin/google-chrome +brew cask install chromium # If you already have Google Chrome/Chromium in /Applications/, skip this command +brew install wget python3 -# On Linux: -wget -q -O - https://dl-ssl.google.com/linux/linux_signing_key.pub | sudo apt-key add - -sudo sh -c 'echo "deb [arch=amd64] http://dl.google.com/linux/chrome/deb/ stable main" >> /etc/apt/sources.list.d/google-chrome.list' -apt update; apt install google-chrome-beta python3 wget +echo -e '#!/bin/bash\n/Applications/Chromium.app/Contents/MacOS/Chromium "$@"' > /usr/local/bin/chromium # see instructions for google-chrome below +chmod +x /usr/local/bin/chromium +``` -# Check: +On Ubuntu/Debian: +```bash +apt install chromium-browser python3 wget +``` + +Check that everything worked: +```bash google-chrome --version && which wget && which python3 && echo "[√] All dependencies installed." ``` @@ -78,10 +78,41 @@ Follow the instruction links above in the "Quickstart" section to download your You may optionally specify a third argument to `archive.py export.html [pocket|pinboard|bookmarks]` to enforce the use of a specific link parser. +**Google Chrome Instrutions:** + +I recommend Chromium instead of Google Chrome, since it's open source and doesn't send your data to Google. +Chromium may have some issues rendering some sites though, so you're welcome to try Google-chrome instead. +It's also easier to use Google Chrome if you already have it installed, rather than downloading Chromium all over. + +On Mac: +```bash +# If you already have Google Chrome in /Applications/, skip this brew command +brew cask install google-chrome +brew install wget python3 + +echo -e '#!/bin/bash\n/Applications/Google\ Chrome.app/Contents/MacOS/Google\ Chrome "$@"' > /usr/local/bin/google-chrome +chmod +x /usr/local/bin/google-chrome +``` + +On Linux: +```bash +wget -q -O - https://dl-ssl.google.com/linux/linux_signing_key.pub | sudo apt-key add - +sudo sh -c 'echo "deb [arch=amd64] http://dl.google.com/linux/chrome/deb/ stable main" >> /etc/apt/sources.list.d/google-chrome.list' +apt update; apt install google-chrome-beta python3 wget +``` + +2. Set the environment variable `CHROME_BINARY` to `google-chrome` before running: + +```bash +env CHROME_BINARY=google-chrome ./archive.py ~/Downloads/bookmarks_export.html +``` + ## Details The archiver produces a folder like `pocket/` containing an `index.html`, and archived copies of all the sites, -organized by starred timestamp. For each sites it saves: +organized by starred timestamp. It's Powered by the [headless](https://developers.google.com/web/updates/2017/04/headless-chrome) Chromium and good 'ol `wget`. +NEW: Also submits each link to save on archive.org! +For each sites it saves: - wget of site, e.g. `en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Example.html` with .html appended if not present - `sreenshot.png` 1440x900 screenshot of site using headless chrome