ArchiveBox is an open-source self-hosted web archive tool that lets you save and browse web pages locally. This tutorial will guide you to install ArchiveBox on Debian Latest.
To install ArchiveBox, you need:
To get started, clone the ArchiveBox repository to your machine with the following command:
$ git clone https://github.com/pirate/ArchiveBox.git
This will create a new directory called "ArchiveBox" in your current working directory.
Before you can install ArchiveBox, you need to install its dependencies. Run the following command in your terminal:
$ sudo apt-get install libssl-dev libffi-dev libxml2-dev libxslt1-dev libjpeg-dev zlib1g-dev
These packages are required to build some of the dependencies that ArchiveBox installs.
To install ArchiveBox, run the following command inside the cloned ArchiveBox directory:
$ cd ArchiveBox
$ sudo pip3 install .
This will install all the dependencies and packages required by ArchiveBox.
Now that you have ArchiveBox installed, you need to configure it to archive the URLs you want. ArchiveBox reads a list of URLs from a text file.
Create a file called "urls.txt" in the ArchiveBox directory and add the URLs you want to archive, each on a separate line.
$ vim urls.txt
https://google.com
https://github.com
https://facebook.com
Save and close the file.
To run ArchiveBox, use the following command:
$ archivebox init
This will initialize ArchiveBox and archive all the URLs in urls.txt.
You can also run ArchiveBox in server mode, which lets you browse the archives through a web interface. Use the following command to start the server:
$ archivebox server
You can now access the ArchiveBox web interface by visiting http://localhost:8000 in your web browser.
In this tutorial, you learned how to install ArchiveBox on Debian Latest. You can now use ArchiveBox to archive web pages locally and browse them through a web interface.
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