ArchiveBox is a free and open-source tool that helps you create a local archive of webpages. In this tutorial, we will show you how to install ArchiveBox on Manjaro.
Before you start, make sure you have the following prerequisites:
Before we can install ArchiveBox on Manjaro, we need to install some dependencies. Open a terminal window and run the following command:
sudo pacman -S libffi openssl postgresql python-pillow python-pip python-psycopg2 python-xhtml2pdf
This command will install the necessary packages required by ArchiveBox.
Next, we need to clone the ArchiveBox repository to our local system. Run the following command:
git clone https://github.com/pirate/ArchiveBox.git
This command will clone the repository to a directory named ArchiveBox.
Now, let's install ArchiveBox. Navigate to the ArchiveBox directory and run the following command:
sudo pip install -r requirements.txt
This command will install all the required Python packages.
Once the installation is complete, we need to configure ArchiveBox. Copy the example.config.yml file to a new config.yml file:
cp example.config.yml config.yml
Edit the config.yml file and update the following settings:
OUTPUT_DIR: Set the directory where the archived webpages will be stored.OUTPUT_DIR: /path/to/your/output_directory
ARCHIVE_DIR: Set the directory where your archives will be stored.ARCHIVE_DIR: /path/to/your/archive_directory
DATABASE_URL: This setting is optional. You can set the PostgreSQL database URL here.DATABASE_URL: postgresql://user:password@host:port/database
CRAWL_OPTIONS: You can set various options related to crawling here. For example, you can set the maximum number of pages to crawl.CRAWL_OPTIONS:
max_depth: 5
max_pages: 100
Once you have configured ArchiveBox, you can run it using the following command:
./archivebox.sh
This command will start the ArchiveBox server. You can access the ArchiveBox web interface by opening your web browser and navigating to http://localhost:8000.
In this tutorial, we showed you how to install ArchiveBox on Manjaro Linux. With ArchiveBox, you can easily create a local archive of webpages.
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