Bug#924040: #924040 ITP: archivebox -- open source self-hosted web archive

[Martin <debacle@debian.org>]

On 2020-03-11 14:24, Dmitry Smirnov wrote:
> I mourn loss of Scrapbook and ArchiveBox appears to be a viable alternative.

So do I.

> I've noticed this ITP but since there are no signs of initial packaging I 
> took the liberty of making a first draft:
>
>   https://salsa.debian.org/debian/archivebox

Thanks for that!

As anarcat, I'm too busy with other things now, but I'm starting
to test your draft package right now. Observations so far:

 - the link "https://nicksweeting.com/images/archive.png"; in
   archivebox/templates/link_index.html should be replaced with
   a local copy

 - when starting archivebox, I'm getting a strange message:
   "fatal: not a git repository (or any of the parent directories): .git"

 - archivebox likes to write to /usr/share/output/, which
   probably should be ~/.cache/archivebox/

 - I'm trying to archive www.debian.org using the command
   echo https://www.debian.org/ | archivbox
   but get the error:
   "! Failed to archive link: KeyError: 'domain'"
   and the resulting subdirectory
   /usr/share/output/archive/1583964646 remains empty

I'm desperately in need of something replacing scrapbook. If you
are working on archivebox, I'ld in turn test the package and
send bug reports, maybe even with patches.