Is "web archiving while browsing" a thing? (lemmy.blahaj.zone)

submitted 1 day ago by kayzeekayzee@lemmy.blahaj.zone to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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I've found that all the web archiving software I've encountered are either manual (you have to archive everything individually in a separate application) or crawler-based (which can end up putting a lot of extra load on smaller web server, and could even get your ip blocked).

Are there any solutions that simply automatically archive web pages as you load them in your browser? If not, why aren't there?

I could also see something like that being useful as a self-hosted web indexer, where if you ever go "I think I've seen this name before", you can click on it, and your computer will say something like "this name appeared in a news headline you scrolled past two weeks ago"

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[-] triplenadir@lemmygrad.ml 2 points 18 hours ago

There's a Firefox extension which makes a full-text index of every page you visit - it seems to work, but I found the search a bit unreliable so I stopped using it: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/full-text-tabs-forever/

this post was submitted on 17 Feb 2026

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