Once the archiving completes, you can open the generated output/index.html in your browser to view the archive. Just run it each time you want to import new links and update the static output. You don't need a constantly running backend server. It also uses dependencies like Wget, Headless Chrome, Youtube-dl, and other Unix tools to save the webpage. These copies stay with you even if the original webpage disappears in the future.ĪrchiveBox is written in Python 3. It includes local copies in HTML, a screenshot of the page, a PDF file, and WARC (Web ARChive). It takes the list of URLs you want to archive and creates a local, browsable HTML clone of the content in multiple formats. You don't give up your privacy or stay locked in a service you cannot control. Introducing ArchiveBoxĪrchiveBox is an Open Source solution that can help you host your own alternative to an archiving service like the Wayback Machine. This is a very big and increasingly crowded market, and there’s no reason why we can’t respectfully share it.Let's see how you can create a clone of Instapaper or Pocket in your computer without losing any web page asset. So, while they are certainly a competitor to Instapaper now, it didn’t catch me by surprise. Over the next few months, they continued adding mostly Instapaper-like features to their service. They pivoted their business away from the publisher-payment focus and into a direct Instapaper competitor. In June, Readability hired another developer to make an app that didn’t involve Instapaper at all. ![]() Our business relationship ended and we remained acquaintances, but they stopped inviting me to advisory meetings. It was similar to competitors Instapaper and Pocket in that it allows a user to save an article from the web and read it later without the clutter of the. We decided to end our development contract, since there was no reason for me to invest any more work into an app that wasn’t going to ship. Readability decided that they didn’t want to give Apple the 30%, so the app was put on hold.īy May, Readability told me that they were not going to ship an iOS app for the foreseeable future, and were deciding how to pivot their business into other areas instead. In February of this year, the app was finished and ready to launch, but it was rejected by Apple for the in-app-purchase subscription-matching rule, which had just gone into effect. ![]() I would also advise the company, promote the service on my blog and on Instapaper, and allow people to link Readability to their Instapaper accounts. That way, I could keep my efforts focused on what I care most about, the iOS app, and they could have a full-featured iOS reading app from day one without having to build it themselves. We figured out a way to work together: I’d build a white-label version of the Instapaper app that worked with the Readability service instead of mine, with no source-code sharing, and I’d get a royalty for each copy sold. We had very different priorities at the time: they wanted their service to focus on the publisher-payment system, and I wanted to focus on my iPhone and iPad apps. The Readability founders came to me in 2010, shared their idea of paying publishers for what people read with their text-view bookmarklet, and wanted to explore whether we could work together. ![]() I know it’s bad form to mention your competitors, but I’ve been asked about Readability’s announcement enough today that it’s more of a charade not to talk about it, especially since a lot of people are under the wrong impression. A programmer, writer, podcaster, geek, and coffee enthusiast.Ībout The relationship between Readability and Instapaper
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