ArchiveBox v0.9 released with new native apps and 50 new plugins

ArchiveBox v0.9 released with new native apps and 50 new plugins docs.sweeting.me

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It’s been a long time since our last major release back in 2024!

Thanks for hanging in there, but I promise this release was worth the wait!

In our last big announcement in 2024 we promised a plugin marketplace, P2P archiving by connecting servers together, and better UI / peformance. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41860909

I'm pleased to share that all those promises have now been delivered! Please let me know your feedback and open issues, I'm excited to hear how the community uses this release (especially because we have 0 analytics, comments are the only feedback we get).

stuxnet797 days ago

I just upgraded from a relatively old version of archivebox (v0.7) and I am not a fan of the new UI. Is there a way I can switch back to the old layout. I found it a lot more intuitive and information dense.

EDIT: To be more specific with my feedback, in the new UI the 'FILES SAVED' column is not showing anything for all of the previous entries I'd made in v0.7. Can this be fixed? It's a huge setback and makes the v0.9 layout unusable.

nikisweeting7 days ago

Absolutely can definitely fix this relatively quickly, a few questions:

- did you do the full filesystem migration yet with `archivebox update --migrate-only`?

- what OS and screen size are you viewing on? and are you looking at the admin snapshot list or the public snapshot list?

- is it just the compactness of the old emoji icons on one line you preferred? or something more than that? the reason we changed it is because we have 20+ more icons now, so it no longer fits on one line easily and we cant easily represent every plugin with only common emoji

If you're able to share one of your old snapshot folders in a new Github issue that would be super helpful as then I can reproduce what you're seeing quickly.

cdev_gl8 days ago

Thanks for the release! I'm a big fan of archivebox to combat link rot for documents I frequently reference, and this update looks HUGE! Very excited to try out the new features :)

MattJ1008 days ago

Congrats on the release! I enjoyed ArchiveBox while I used it, but had to stop using it because the bundled Chromium would get stuck almost daily, bringing my laptop to a crawl. It was a known bug, but it looks like it has been fixed! ( https://github.com/ArchiveBox/ArchiveBox/issues/1714 )

I'm looking forward to updating and trying out the new features as well :)

nikisweeting7 days ago

Yes, it was (still is) an annoying Chromium bug that affects tons of browser automation projects, not just ArchiveBox.

But v0.9.x now has built-in chrome zombie killing at the start of every crawl, so it shouldnt happen anymore even if Chromium misbehaves! Definitely open a github issue if you see any performance issues at all!

Read the full thread on Hacker News →

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