ArchiveBox UI

Page: Getting Started

What do you want to capture?

Save some URLs now -> [Add page]
- Paste some URLs to archive now
- Upload a file containing URLs (bookmarks.html export, RSS.xml feed, markdown file, word doc, PDF, etc.)
- Pull in URLs to archive from a remote location (e.g. RSS feed URL, remote TXT file, JSON file, etc.)
Import URLs from a browser -> [Import page]
- Desktop: Get the ArchiveBox Chrome/Firefox extension
- Mobile: Get the ArchiveBox iOS App / Android App
- Upload a bookmarks.html export file
- Upload a browser_history.sqlite3 export file
Import URLs from a 3rd party bookmarking service -> [Sync page]
- Pocket
- Pinboard
- Instapaper
- Wallabag
- Zapier, N8N, IFTTT, etc.
- Upload a bookmarks.html export, bookmarks.json, RSS, etc. file
Archive URLs on a schedule -> [Schedule page]
Archive an entire website -> [Crawl page]
- What starting URL/domain?
- How deep?
- Follow links to external domains?
- Follow links to parent URLs?
- Maximum number of pages to save?
- Maximum number of requests/minute?
Crawl for URLs with a search engine and save automatically
Some URLs on a schedule
Save an entire website (e.g. https://example.com)
Save results matching a search query (e.g. "site:example.com")
Save a social media feed (e.g. https://x.com/user/1234567890)

Crawls App

Archive an entire website -> [Crawl page]
- What are the seed URLs?
- How many hops to follow?
- Follow links to external domains?
- Follow links to parent URLs?
- Maximum number of pages to save?
- Maximum number of requests/minute?

Scheduler App

Archive URLs on a schedule -> [Schedule page]
- What URL(s)?
- How often?
- Do you want to discard old snapshots after x amount of time?
- Any filter rules?
- Want to be notified when changes are detected -> redirect[Alerts app/create new alert(crawl=self)]

Choose Schedule check for new URLs: Schedule.objects.get(pk=xyz)
- 1 minute
- 5 minutes
- 1 hour
- 1 day
- Choose Destination Crawl to archive URLs using : Crawl.objects.get(pk=xyz)
  - Tags
  - Persona
  - Created By ID
  - Config
  - Filters
    - URL patterns to include
    - URL patterns to exclude
    - ONLY_NEW= Ignore URLs if already saved once / save URL each time it appears / only save is last save > x time ago

Sources App (For managing sources that ArchiveBox pulls URLs in from)

Add a new source to pull URLs in from (WIZARD)
- Choose URI:
  - Web UI
  - CLI
  - Local filesystem path (directory to monitor for new files containing URLs)
  - Remote URL (RSS/JSON/XML feed)
  - Chrome browser profile sync (login using gmail to pull bookmarks/history)
  - Pocket, Pinboard, Instapaper, Wallabag, etc.
  - Zapier, N8N, IFTTT, etc.
  - Local server filesystem path (directory to monitor for new files containing URLs)
  - Google drive (directory to monitor for new files containing URLs)
  - Remote server FTP/SFTP/SCP path (directory to monitor for new files containing URLs)
  - AWS/S3/B2/GCP bucket (directory to monitor for new files containing URLs)
  - XBrowserSync (login to pull bookmarks)
- Choose extractor
  - auto
  - RSS
  - Pocket
  - etc.
- Specify extra Config, e.g.
  - credentials
  - extractor tuning options (e.g. verify_ssl, cookies, etc.)
Provide credentials for the source
- API Key
- Username / Password
- OAuth

Alerts App

Create a new alert, choose condition
- Get notified when a site goes down (<x% success ratio for Snapshots)
- Get notified when a site changes visually more than x% (screenshot diff)
- Get notified when a site's text content changes more than x% (text diff)
- Get notified when a keyword appears
- Get notified when a keyword dissapears
- When an AI prompt returns some result
Choose alert threshold:
- any condition is met
- all conditions are met
- condition is met for x% of URLs
- condition is met for x% of time
Choose how to notify: (List[AlertDestination])
- maximum alert frequency
- destination type: email / Slack / Webhook / Google Sheet / logfile
- destination info:
  - email address(es)
  - Slack channel
  - Webhook URL
Choose scope:
- Choose ArchiveResult scope (extractors): (a query that returns ArchiveResult.objects QuerySet)
  - All extractors
  - Only screenshots
  - Only readability / mercury text
  - Only video
  - Only html
  - Only headers
- Choose Snapshot scope (URL): (a query that returns Snapshot.objects QuerySet)
  - All domains
  - Specific domain
  - All domains in a tag
  - All domains in a tag category
  - All URLs matching a certain regex pattern
- Choose crawl scope: (a query that returns Crawl.objects QuerySet)
  - All crawls
  - Specific crawls
  - crawls by a certain user
  - crawls using a certain persona

class AlertDestination(models.Model): destination_type: [email, slack, webhook, google_sheet, local logfile, b2/s3/gcp bucket, etc.] maximum_frequency filter_rules credentials alert_template: JINJA2 json/text template that gets populated with alert contents

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