ArchiveBox

[!WARNING] This is an ALPHA pre-release that improves upon the previous v0.8.2-rc ALPHA pre-release. The next stable release will be v0.9.0. The v0.8.x-rc series of releases are for collecting feedback while we make big architectural improvements to support a new public plugin marketplace + ecosystem. We want brave early adopters to help us test it! (if that’s not you, wait for v0.9!)

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Highlights

• New Admin action buttons text should make it clearer what the butons do
• Adding new URLs / clicking action buttons now runs task in a BG thread instead of running syncronously (and often timing out)
• Added ability to click “View on site” from any object in admin to go directly to viewing the content
• Switched archivebox server from using runserver to a proper daphne ASGI server
• Added HTTP byte range request support (allows you to seek to the middle of a big .mp4 without downloading the whole thing)
• Added ability to regenerate ABIDs on objects that have gone out of sync
• New plugin system architecture is coming along, standard API for hooks now available in plugantic/base_hook.py
• improved CLI logging output using rich for pretty colors and nicer tracebacks
• improved HTTP request logging to filter out noisy 404/304/200 lines
• renamed .created -> .created_at, .modified -> .modified_at, .added -> .bookmarked_at, .updated -> .downloaded_at
• allow accessing admin change pages, API records, and archive contents by both ABID and ID (UUID)
• add ruff linting and lots of type hint improvements with pydantic
• improve auth and CSRF security for the new REST API (cookies no longer work for API auth, a token is appended to URLs instead)
• bump default USER_AGENT settings to chrome v128, bump yt-dlp, singlefile, etc. versions
• lots of other small fixes, speedups, and improvements!

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Full Changelog: https://github.com/ArchiveBox/ArchiveBox/compare/v0.8.2-rc…v0.8.3-rc