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# Pocket Stream Archive <img src="https://getpocket.com/favicon.ico" height="22px"/> [](https://twitter.com/thesquashSH)
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(Your own personal Way-Back Machine)
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Save an archived copy of all websites you star using Pocket, indexed in an html file. Powered by the new [headless](https://developers.google.com/web/updates/2017/04/headless-chrome) Google Chrome and good 'ol `wget`.
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## Quickstart
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`archive.py` is a script that takes a [Pocket](https://getpocket.com/export) export, and turns it into a browsable html archive that you can store locally or host online.
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**Runtime:** I've found it takes about an hour to download 1000 articles, and they'll take up roughly 1GB.
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Those numbers are from running it single-threaded on my i5 machine with 50mbps down. YMMV.
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**Dependencies:** `google-chrome --headless (59)`,` wget`, `python3`
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```bash
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# On Mac:
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brew install Caskroom/versions/google-chrome-canary wget python3
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ln -s "/Applications/Google Chrome Canary.app/Contents/MacOS/Google Chrome Canary" /usr/local/bin/google-chrome
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# On Linux:
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wget -q -O - https://dl-ssl.google.com/linux/linux_signing_key.pub | sudo apt-key add -
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sudo sh -c 'echo "deb [arch=amd64] http://dl.google.com/linux/chrome/deb/ stable main" >> /etc/apt/sources.list.d/google-chrome.list'
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apt update; apt install google-chrome-beta python3 wget
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```
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**Archiving:**
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1. Download your pocket export file `ril_export.html` from https://getpocket.com/export
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2. Download this repo `git clone https://github.com/pirate/pocket-archive-stream`
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3. `cd pocket-archive-stream/`
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4. `./archive.py ~/Downloads/ril_export.html [pinboard|pocket]`
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It produces a folder `pocket/` containing an `index.html`, and archived copies of all the sites,
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organized by timestamp. For each sites it saves:
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- wget of site, e.g. `en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Example.html` with .html appended if not present
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- `sreenshot.png` 1440x900 screenshot of site using headless chrome
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- `output.pdf` Printed PDF of site using headless chrome
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You can tweak parameters like screenshot size, file paths, timeouts, etc. in `archive.py`.
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You can also tweak the outputted html index in `index_template.html`. It just uses python
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format strings (not a proper templating engine like jinja2), which is why the CSS is double-bracketed `{{...}}`.
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**Live Updating:** (coming soon)
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It's possible to pull links via the pocket API instead of downloading an html export.
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Once I write a script to do that, we can stick this in `cron` and have it auto-update on it's own.
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For now you just have to download `ril_export.html` and run `archive.py` each time it updates. The script
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will run fast subsequent times because it only downloads new links that haven't been archived already.
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## Publishing Your Archive
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The pocket archive is suitable for serving on your personal server, you can upload the pocket
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archive to `/var/www/pocket` and allow people to access your saved copies of sites.
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Just stick this in your nginx config to properly serve the wget-archived sites:
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```nginx
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location /pocket/ {
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alias /var/www/pocket/;
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index index.html;
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autoindex on;
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try_files $uri $uri/ $uri.html =404;
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}
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```
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Make sure you're not running any content as CGI or PHP, you only want to serve static files!
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Urls look like: `https://sweeting.me/pocket/archive/1493350273/en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dining_philosophers_problem`
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## Info
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This is basically an open-source version of [Pocket Premium](https://getpocket.com/premium) (which you should consider paying for!).
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I got tired of sites I saved going offline or changing their URLS, so I started
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archiving a copy of them locally now, similar to The Way-Back Machine provided
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by [archive.org](https://archive.org). Self hosting your own archive allows you to save
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PDFs & Screenshots of dynamic sites in addition to static html, something archive.org doesn't do.
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Now I can rest soundly knowing important articles and resources I like wont dissapear off the internet.
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My published archive as an example: [sweeting.me/pocket](https://home.sweeting.me/pocket).
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## Security WARNING
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Hosting other people's site content has security implications for your domain, make sure you understand
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the dangers of hosting other people's CSS & JS files [on your domain](https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/Security/Same-origin_policy). It's best to put this on a domain
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of its own to slightly mitigate [CSRF attacks](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cross-site_request_forgery).
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It might also be prudent to blacklist your archive in your `robots.txt` so that search engines dont index
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the content on your domain.
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## TODO
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- body text extraction using [fathom](https://hacks.mozilla.org/2017/04/fathom-a-framework-for-understanding-web-pages/)
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- auto-tagging based on important extracted words
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- audio & video archiving with `youtube-dl`
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- full-text indexing with elasticsearch
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- video closed-caption downloading for full-text indexing video content
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- automatic text summaries of article with summarization library
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- feature image extraction
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- http support (from my https-only domain)
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- try getting dead links from archive.org (https://github.com/hartator/wayback-machine-downloader)
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