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Archivebox annoys me because (as far as I remember) it doesn't have any options for capturing a webpage on your end and uploading it to your self-hosted Archivebox instance. With numerous sites moving to Cloudflare to mitigate AI agent crawling, it makes it really hard (or outright impossible) to capture a page because it wants to do it server side.

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The ArchiveBox Browser Extension https://extension.archivebox.io/ has this built in. It captures both full MHTML and screenshots and uploads it to your server automatically, it was added a few months ago.

Also works from iOS and Android so you can save logged-in content directly without having to set up cookie sync (which it also supports now too directly from the extension).

This is basically the main reason that I started building https://github.com/mfinelli/recueil. It _only_ works in your browser so you can bypass captchas or paywalls or whatever and then it uses singlefile (https://www.getsinglefile.com) to upload the result to your self-hosted archive.

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