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ReadableWebProxy
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fake-name / ReadableWebProxy

ReadableWebProxy

Rewriting web proxy and archival tool. At this point, it just tries to download all the things.

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11Mentions
0Explicit recommenders
204GitHub stars
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What it is

Rewriting web proxy and archival tool. At this point, it just tries to download all the things.

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Nov 8–Nov 15 UTC · Direct repository links and separately labeled related project stories. Indexed through 11/15/2026, 4:01:40 AM UTC.

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HN mentions by year11 dated mentions

Observed mentions: 2016-08-23 18:55:52 UTC to 2019-12-22 10:40:52 UTC.

0123452016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments20162017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments20172018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 5 mentions; 0 submissions, 5 comments2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 4 mentions; 0 submissions, 4 comments2019

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20162016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC101
20172017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC101
20182018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC505
20192019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC404

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Whee, a topic close to my heart! https://github.com/fake-name/ReadableWebProxy is a project of mine that started out as a simple rewriting proxy, but at this point is basically a self-contained archival system for entire websites, complete with preserved historical versions of scraped content. It has a distributed fetching frontend[1], uses chromium[2] to optionally deal with internet breaking bullshit (Helloooo cloudflare! Fuuuuucccckkkkk yyyyooouuuuuuu), supports multiple archival modes (raw, e.g. not rewritten and destyled, and a rewritten format which makes reading internet text content actually nice), and a bunch of other stuff. The links in fetched content are rewritten to point within the archiver, and if content is not already retreived, it's fetched on-the-fly as you browse. It also has plugin-based content rewriting features, al
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lowing the complete reformatting of content on-the-fly, and functions as a backend to a bunch of other projects (I run a translated light-novel/web-novel tracker site, and it also does the RSS parsing for that). I've been occatonally meaning to add WARC forwarding to the frontend, and feed that into the internet archive, but the fetching frontend is old, creaky and brittle (it's some old code), and does a lot of esoteric stuff that would be hard to replicate. [1]: https://github.com/fake-name/AutoTriever [2]: https://github.com/fake-name/ChromeController
In Archiving web sites
https://github.com/fake-name/ReadableWebProxy Disclaimer - It's a project of mine, specifically written for my interests, and is very much not production ready. It does have a full blown spider in it, which supports distributed fetching and stuff via another project [1]. It does both rewritten archiving (basically overwriting the page style) and raw archiving. I also have a bunch of miscellaneous stuff like a custom python interface for chromium so I can handle jerberscript shitshows (cloudflare "protection" [2], reCaptcha [3], etc...). People seem really dead-set on ruining the internet. I keep meaning to implement WARC proxying to feed into the IA as a parallel output stream for the spider, but it's a lot of work and I have too many projects already. 1: https://github.com/fake-name/AutoTriever 2: https://github.com/fake-name/ChromeContr
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In Inside Wayback Machine, the internet’s time capsule
Uh, what part is hard? It's literally 3 lines of work, if you use a tool that does most of the work for you. [Here](https://github.com/fake-name/ReadableWebProxy/blob/510cc41ae...) is a migration I have for one of my hobby projects. Tthe process is `alembic revision --autogenerate` Add two lines to the migration skeleton (4 if you care about downgrades). `alembic migrate +1`. I may have the alembic migration commands slightly wrong. It's been a while since I've done them without having bash scrollback handy.
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