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If you're interested in this sort of thing, you might also be interested in Archivy [1], which is somewhat similar but it (thankfully) doesn't upload your stuff to archive.org

[1] https://archivy.github.io/

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> doesn't upload your stuff to archive.org

FIY You just have to set the environment variable SUBMIT_ARCHIVE_DOT_ORG=False

It's an accident waiting to happen.

See my answer here for why it's the default: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26866689

Archivy is great too, in fact ArchiveBox sponsors Archivy development ;)

What’s the danger in uploading to archive.org?

Aside from the can of worms that is copyright infringement? There was a recent HN discussion about how much of a pain it is to get something removed from archive.org.

Not uploading people's stuff to permanent, public archives seems like a good rule of thumb.

Isn't this just passing the URL to archive.org which then does the actual archiving?

If it isn't already public (i.e., reachable by archive.org), it won't be afterwards?

Something can be public today and not tomorrow. Something can be made public by accident. Something can be publically reachable (i.e. a private URL but one without a login) without the intention of being searchable.

> There was a recent HN discussion about how much of a pain it is to get something removed from archive.org.

I really wanna read this but can't find the thread, do you happen to have a link?

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