This is a browser extension that lets you send individual browser tabs or all URLs matching certain patterns to your ArchiveBox instance for offline preservation. This has a couple of benefits:
- Own your data: save the web content that matters to you most, protect against link rot
- Protect your data: save offline copies of pages in common, durable formats that will last for generations
- Use your data: collect and tag important bookmarks, full-text search through your browsing history, automatically push captured data into other systems using ArchiveBox's APIs
✨ Originally contributed by TJ Horner (@tjhorner), now maintained by the ArchiveBox team.
Chrome / Brave / Edge / Other Chromium-based browsers
Firefox / Waterfox / Tor Browser / Other Firefox-based browsers
Safari (not yet supported, use Save-to-ArchiveBox Shortcut instead)
- Set up an ArchiveBox server and make sure it's accessible to the machine you're browsing on
- Configure your ArchiveBox server to allow URL submissions without requiring login (more info here...)
Alternatively: if you stay signed in to your ArchiveBox instance in the same browser, it will share your login credentials.archivebox config --set PUBLIC_ADD_VIEW=True # (make sure to restart the server after if you apply this change)
- Configure the extension to point to your ArchiveBox server's base URL (e.g.
http://localhost:8000,https://archivebox.example.com, etc.)
- ✅ Test it out by right-clicking on any page and selecting
ArchiveBox Exporter > Archive Current Page
- Different archive modes
- Allowlist mode doesn't archive pages by default, and lets you specify domains or regexes to archive
- Blocklist mode archives all visited pages by default, but lets you specify domains or regexes to not archive
- Archive any arbitrary page with the "Archive Current Page" context menu item
- Archive any link with the "Archive Link" context menu item
If you wish to contribute to (or just build for yourself) this extension, you will need to download and install Node.js.
git clone https://github.com/ArchiveBox/archivebox-browser-extension
cd archivebox-browser-extension/
npm install
npm run build
# or for hot-reloading during development:
npm run devBoth commands will produce an output in the dist/ directory, load that folder into Chrome or Firefox using their Load Unpacked Extension UI.
Please open an issue to discuss any proposed changes before starting work on any PRs.
- 2024-11 Development started on v2 extension with more advanced UI and tagging options
- 2024-01 Extension repo moved from
tjhorner/archivebox-exportertoArchivebox/archivebox-browser-extension - 2021-09 Extension offically supported by ArchiveBox v0.6.2, no longer needed to run
:devbranch - 2021-07 Initial extension published on Chrome and Mozilla web stores
- 2021-06 @tjhorner Created the initial
archivebox-exporterextension
Other browser extensions that also do web archiving, may be a better fit if ArchiveBox doesn't suit your needs.
- https://archiveweb.page/ + https://replayweb.page (super high fidelity archiving extension by the Webrecorder team)
- https://github.com/gildas-lormeau/SingleFile (a great extension for saving pages into a single
.htmlfile, built-in to ArchiveBox already) - https://web.hypothes.is/start/ (extension focused on annotating, but also supports archiving)
- https://memex.garden/ (another project focused on annotating that supports archiving)
- https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/save-page-we/ (a Firefox extension that also saves webpages as a single HTML file)
Other projects that help with ingest URLs into ArchiveBox from various sources.
- https://github.com/layderv/archivefox (user-contributed extension for Firefox)
- https://github.com/Gertje823/ArchiveboxTelegramBot (Telegram Bot to send URLs to ArchiveBox)
- https://github.com/TheCakeIsNaOH/xbs-to-archivebox (Download your bookmarks from xBrowserSync, filter them, and save them into ArchiveBox)
- https://github.com/emschu/archivebox-quick-add (golang utility to add links to ArchiveBox)
- https://github.com/FracturedCode/archivebox-reddit (automatically back up saved Reddit comments, posts, etc. to ArchiveBox)
- https://github.com/dbeley/reddit_export_userdata (older Python utility to archive reddit content to ArchiveBox)
- https://github.com/jess-sol/reddit-exporter (export reddit data to ArchiveBox)
- https://github.com/jonesd/archivebox-pinboard-tranformer (export links from pinboard to ArchiveBox)
- https://github.com/agg23/archivebox-url-forwarder (older WebExtension to forward URLs to archivebox)
MIT License
