Hoardy-Web by Jan Malakhovski
Passively capture, archive, and hoard your web browsing history, including the contents of the pages you visit, for later offline viewing, mirroring, and/or indexing. Low memory footprint, lots of configuration options. Previously known as pWebArc.
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Hoardy-Web (also there) helps you to passively capture, archive, and hoard your web browsing history.
Not just the URLs, but also the contents and the requisite resources (images, media, CSS, fonts, etc) of the pages you visit.
Not just the last 3 months, but from the beginning of time you start using it.
Practically speaking, you install this and just browse the web normally while Hoardy-Web passively, in background, captures and archives web pages you visit for later offline viewing, mirroring, and/or indexing.
Hoardy-Web has a lot of configuration options to help you tweak what should or should not be archived and a very low memory footprint, keeping you browsing experience snappy even on ancient hardware (unless explicitly configured otherwise to, e.g., minimize writes to disk instead).
In other words, this extension implements an in-browser half of your own personal private passive Wayback Machine that archives everything you see, including HTTP POST requests and responses (e.g. answer pages of web search engines), as well as most other HTTP-level data (AJAX/JSON RPC/etc).
By default, this extension will save all captured data into browser's local storage, so it can be used standalone, but it implements other archiving methods if you want them.
To view/replay your archived data, however, you will need to install at the very least the accompanying hoardy-web tool (also there).
If you do not care about archival, you can also use this extension to log and later inspect HTTP traffic generated by various sleazy websites, even when they generate said web traffic on events that can not normally be inspected with browser's own Network Monitor (e.g. when a page generates HTTP requests when its window closes).
For more information see the built-in Help page (available via the "Help" button from extension's popup) and project's documentation (also there).
The latter page also contains in-depth comparisons to DownloadNet, mitmproxy, archiveweb.page, and other similar and related software.
- Hoardy-Web DOES NOT send any of your captured web browsing data anywhere, unless you explicitly configure it to do so.
- Hoardy-Web DOES NOT send any telemetry anywhere.
- Both of the above statements will apply to all future versions of Hoardy-Web.
Hoardy-Web was previously known as "Personal Private Passive Web Archive" aka pWebArc.
Not just the URLs, but also the contents and the requisite resources (images, media, CSS, fonts, etc) of the pages you visit.
Not just the last 3 months, but from the beginning of time you start using it.
Practically speaking, you install this and just browse the web normally while Hoardy-Web passively, in background, captures and archives web pages you visit for later offline viewing, mirroring, and/or indexing.
Hoardy-Web has a lot of configuration options to help you tweak what should or should not be archived and a very low memory footprint, keeping you browsing experience snappy even on ancient hardware (unless explicitly configured otherwise to, e.g., minimize writes to disk instead).
In other words, this extension implements an in-browser half of your own personal private passive Wayback Machine that archives everything you see, including HTTP POST requests and responses (e.g. answer pages of web search engines), as well as most other HTTP-level data (AJAX/JSON RPC/etc).
By default, this extension will save all captured data into browser's local storage, so it can be used standalone, but it implements other archiving methods if you want them.
To view/replay your archived data, however, you will need to install at the very least the accompanying hoardy-web tool (also there).
If you do not care about archival, you can also use this extension to log and later inspect HTTP traffic generated by various sleazy websites, even when they generate said web traffic on events that can not normally be inspected with browser's own Network Monitor (e.g. when a page generates HTTP requests when its window closes).
For more information see the built-in Help page (available via the "Help" button from extension's popup) and project's documentation (also there).
The latter page also contains in-depth comparisons to DownloadNet, mitmproxy, archiveweb.page, and other similar and related software.
- Hoardy-Web DOES NOT send any of your captured web browsing data anywhere, unless you explicitly configure it to do so.
- Hoardy-Web DOES NOT send any telemetry anywhere.
- Both of the above statements will apply to all future versions of Hoardy-Web.
Hoardy-Web was previously known as "Personal Private Passive Web Archive" aka pWebArc.
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This add-on needs to:
- Display notifications to you
- Access browser tabs
- Store unlimited amount of client-side data
- Access browser activity during navigation
- Access your data for all websites
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- Version
- 1.19.0
- Size
- 257.12 KB
- Last updated
- 5 days ago (Dec 21, 2024)
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- License
- GNU Lesser General Public License v3.0 only
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Release notes for 1.19.0
[extension-v1.19.0] - 2024-12-21: Reworked popup UI, better replay integration
Changed (1)
- Popup UI:
- Reorganized the whole layout by assigning tags to all elements and allowing switching between those tags as if they were tabs.
The original idea was to unroll in steps a-la uBlock Origin, but this is superior.
- Improved some help strings.
Added
- Core + Popup UI + Shortcuts:
- Added Replay from the archiving server configuration option.
It’s a tristate of: disallow, enable if Submit dumps via 'HTTP' option is enabled and the server supports it, enable even if Submit dumps via 'HTTP' option is disabled.
- Added Include in global replays per-tab options.
- Added popup UI button and keyboard shortcut both of which re-navigate all tabs for which Include in global replays is set to their replays.
- Added popup UI button, keyboard shortcut, and context menu item all of which re-navigate a currently active tab to its replay.
- Added Force 'Work offline' in replayed tabs configuration option which does the same thing the similar options for file: and data: URL does, but for tabs that point to replay URLs. Enabled by default.
- Added 🎄 Winter Days mode seasonal theme.
- Added Escape notification messages configuration option to help support more notification daemons. Disabled by default.
Changed (2)
- The Help page:
- Merged “Handling of failures” section into “Archival”.
- Reworded some awkward places.
- Core + manifest.json:
- Improved server checking logic and error messages.
- Improved keyboard shortcut descriptions.
- Improved documentation.
Fixed
- Core:
- Snapshot buttons and keyboard shortcuts will no longer take DOM snapshots of replay pages, unless Capture snapshots of all URLs option is set.
- On Chromium, fixed Hoardy-Web trying to collect and archive replay pages.
Changed (1)
- Popup UI:
- Reorganized the whole layout by assigning tags to all elements and allowing switching between those tags as if they were tabs.
The original idea was to unroll in steps a-la uBlock Origin, but this is superior.
- Improved some help strings.
Added
- Core + Popup UI + Shortcuts:
- Added Replay from the archiving server configuration option.
It’s a tristate of: disallow, enable if Submit dumps via 'HTTP' option is enabled and the server supports it, enable even if Submit dumps via 'HTTP' option is disabled.
- Added Include in global replays per-tab options.
- Added popup UI button and keyboard shortcut both of which re-navigate all tabs for which Include in global replays is set to their replays.
- Added popup UI button, keyboard shortcut, and context menu item all of which re-navigate a currently active tab to its replay.
- Added Force 'Work offline' in replayed tabs configuration option which does the same thing the similar options for file: and data: URL does, but for tabs that point to replay URLs. Enabled by default.
- Added 🎄 Winter Days mode seasonal theme.
- Added Escape notification messages configuration option to help support more notification daemons. Disabled by default.
Changed (2)
- The Help page:
- Merged “Handling of failures” section into “Archival”.
- Reworded some awkward places.
- Core + manifest.json:
- Improved server checking logic and error messages.
- Improved keyboard shortcut descriptions.
- Improved documentation.
Fixed
- Core:
- Snapshot buttons and keyboard shortcuts will no longer take DOM snapshots of replay pages, unless Capture snapshots of all URLs option is set.
- On Chromium, fixed Hoardy-Web trying to collect and archive replay pages.
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