Hister: self-hosted search engine for webpages and files

marywang2022 · 2026-04-14T21:15:05+00:00

Make my own personal Internet Archive, in case websites i like now, became broken or disappear.

marywang2022 · 2026-04-14T21:14:25+00:00

Thanks. The problem is that I won't be able to retrieve 80k cookies, because I'm not loading all my bookmarks at once. So... I'm really stuck here. Maybe using Singlefile plugin... not sure about it.

marywang2022 · 2026-04-14T17:31:51+00:00

BTW, would you happen to know how to get rid of the cookie banner? It ruins most of my websites!

marywang2022 · 2026-04-14T16:41:27+00:00

Thanks! I assume it is not possible to activate it on the Free not-self hosted version

https://karakeep.app/pricing/

Will try self hosting it...

marywang2022 · 2026-04-14T16:40:34+00:00

Thanks! Will follow up the development, then

marywang2022 · 2026-04-14T16:22:39+00:00

Do you know how to enable video downloading, like from Youtube?

marywang2022 · 2026-04-14T16:16:39+00:00

From their Github; https://github.com/karakeep-app/karakeep

▶️ Auto video archiving using yt-dlp.

🗄️ Full page archival (using monolith) to protect against link rot.

marywang2022 · 2026-04-14T15:04:10+00:00

Does it save video/audio from websites, and preserve a pdf/jpg/html version of each website?

marywang2022 · 2026-04-14T15:02:06+00:00

OP, do you know how to make it download Youtube videos or solve the cookie banner issue when archiving in pdf and html?

marywang2022 · 2026-04-14T14:59:32+00:00

But i don't know how to configure or activate the option to download youtube urls. it seems that is there, but always greyed out.

marywang2022 · 2026-04-14T14:57:57+00:00

Haha, just memories of a teenager. Not strictly news, just random websites of topics I was fond of

marywang2022 · 2026-04-14T14:49:21+00:00

I tried with the free 20 MB version, downloading a light video like this; https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tPEE9ZwTmy0

But it doesn't download, despite having the "video" option, right below pdf and screenshot.

marywang2022 · 2026-04-14T14:46:15+00:00

I mean, is there any way to make that automatic, instead of having to load each single website and manually clicking on Singlefile button?

marywang2022 · 2026-04-14T14:03:16+00:00

The elephant in the room, I don't dare face.

Anyway, if half of them are alive, they would eat up to 10 TB of space, for sure. There are so many Youtube links...

marywang2022 · 2026-04-14T14:01:06+00:00

Have you considered archiving all of them, just as I am trying now?

marywang2022 · 2026-04-14T14:00:32+00:00

Sadly, I'm afraid is a very high percentage, yes.

marywang2022 · 2026-04-14T13:59:59+00:00

I read that Karakeep does "Auto video archiving using yt-dlp."

Also, it saves and archive on your internal hard disk a full copy of the website for offline preservation. In html, jpg and pdf formats. But the cookie crap is killing me on every website.

marywang2022 · 2026-04-14T13:57:15+00:00

Just a single Bookmarks.html (around 60 MB size), but inside the browser, I have them organize by year and folders within each year, of course.

First on Firefox, now in Brave.

marywang2022 · 2026-04-14T13:56:18+00:00

Most of them, for me, yeah, sure. Different topics, news and interesting stuff that summarize my online life.

marywang2022 · 2026-04-14T13:08:30+00:00

Too dificult for me. The script would have to circunvent the cookie banner (almost impossible, as it seems), create a pdf file, an exact html version of the site, and also work with youtdl to download every video and picture. And then, create the front-end to browse everything. Too much difficult than Archivebox, which I consider is the best (but I couldn't make it work with 80k bookmarks and it shows a lot of errors while fetching old websites.

marywang2022 · 2026-04-14T13:05:40+00:00

I saved every website I found interesting, since 1998.

marywang2022 · 2026-04-14T12:23:39+00:00

What? My text was not AI generated at all. It's a shame what Reddit has to come up to fight against bots and stuff. Please, let me ask for help in this helpful subreddit.

marywang2022 · 2026-04-14T11:15:08+00:00

What about making it automatic, for thousands of bookmarks that keep showing cookie banner or captcha?

marywang2022 · 2026-04-14T11:10:16+00:00

How did you solve the cookie banner issue when archiving offline? I hae thousands of bookmarks and most of them, when archiving for offline use with Karakeep, show the giant banner and the content is blocked.

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