Ask HN: How do you archive/cache full-page back-ups of your bookmarks

Posted by hackaflocka on Saturday January 25, 2014 @05:42PM
from the ask-hn dept.

You've carefully curated bookmarks over the years.

This is a knowledge bank for you.

Then one day you click on one of the bookmarks, and you discover that the original page is gone, and instead, in its place, is an ad for GoDaddy.

Is there a way for me to archive/cache full-page backups of all my bookmarks? (In some smart way. I shouldn't have to go into each Bookmark and download each page individually.)

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Re:Ask HN: How do you archive/cache full-page back-ups of yo... by dangrossman on Saturday January 25, 2014 @06:02PM (#7122927)

http://pinboard.in/

For $25/year, it'll scrape and save everything you bookmark, and you can view that copy even if the original site disappears.

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Re:Ask HN: How do you archive/cache full-page back-ups of yo... by bitcuration on Sunday January 26, 2014 @02:49AM (#7124288)

I'm scrapping this page right now into pocket. If it's worth archiving, it goes to Evernote afterwords.

The more important question is how I can archive to my home USB drive, aka personal cloud, with some ready to use page scrapping tool like Evernote's. This is my own knowledge graph, and I don't feel like pay anyone or rely on anyone else to maintain for me. Evernote and it's toolkit is almost everything I need, except it doesn't allow me to keep a backup on my own drive. When cloud becomes a obligation, it lost its charm.

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Re:Ask HN: How do you archive/cache full-page back-ups of yo... by skram on Saturday January 25, 2014 @06:17PM (#7122976)

Instapaper (http://www.instapaper.com/u) does for the actual article/page content but not the full page

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Re:Ask HN: How do you archive/cache full-page back-ups of yo... by useyourloaf on Saturday January 25, 2014 @07:00PM (#7123103)

EverNote w/ Web Clipper

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Re:Ask HN: How do you archive/cache full-page back-ups of yo... by hackaflocka on Saturday January 25, 2014 @07:25PM (#7123185)

Will it do it all automatically or does one have to clip web pages one by one?

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Re:Ask HN: How do you archive/cache full-page back-ups of yo... by useyourloaf on Saturday January 25, 2014 @07:39PM (#7123232)

AFAIK, you'd have to do them one-by-one.

Automatically? As in periodically update your snapshots? Or scan through bookmarks.html and grab each page?

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Re:Ask HN: How do you archive/cache full-page back-ups of yo... by hackaflocka on Saturday January 25, 2014 @08:02PM (#7123309)

Either the latter, or the moment I save a bookmark it should archive a backup copy.

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