[HN Gopher] Show HN: Vandal - an alternate navigator to Wayback ...
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Show HN: Vandal - an alternate navigator to Wayback Machine
Author : vigneshanand
Score : 82 points
Date : 2021-05-16 12:22 UTC (10 hours ago)
(HTM) web link (vegetableman.github.io)
(TXT) w3m dump (vegetableman.github.io)
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| sanqui wrote:
| This looks great! Would be nice to have a way to see the source
| collection (e.g. "Save Page Now" or ArchiveBot) for a given
| capture.
| vigneshanand wrote:
| Thanks for checking out, sanqui! That's an interesting use
| case, am curious as to why is that information useful for you?
| toomuchtodo wrote:
| Data provenance. If it came from Save Page Now, the Internet
| Archive archived it. If it came from ArchiveBot, ArchiveTeam
| archived it.
| vigneshanand wrote:
| Makes sense . I will dig in to this further. Am sure
| wayback provides this detail somewhere in it's api.
| toomuchtodo wrote:
| Some api docs here that aren't easy to find: https://docs
| .google.com/document/d/1Nsv52MvSjbLb2PCpHlat0gkz...
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| (yes, this is official documentation)
| baal80spam wrote:
| This looks cool but I'm always reluctant to install ANY browser
| addons that "can read and change all your data on the websites
| you visit".
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| I'll keep in mind this addon exists, though.
| unicornporn wrote:
| I'm mostly fine with those permissions as long as it's a
| recommended extension[1]. Otherwise: no, never. Bait and switch
| is _real_.
|
| [1] https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/recommended-
| extensions-...
| wintermutestwin wrote:
| It's ironic that all the addons that I use to increase my
| privacy require full access to read my web browsing data: HTTPS
| Everywhere, uBlock Origin, Firefox Multi-Account Containers,
| etc.
| vigneshanand wrote:
| I understand. It sounds awful. The use-case here being the
| built-in browser requires host permissions to all url's for
| navigation purposes. Removing it causing access issues when
| navigating to a another page through a link within the webpage.
| pvg wrote:
| Wouldn't it be easier (if a little less slick-looking) to
| hang the date selection UI off an extension bar button rather
| than putting it into the actual web page? Then that
| permission could potentially be dropped.
| vigneshanand wrote:
| That would indeed work. But the utility of Vandal is to not
| just support navigation but also to present an alterative
| vision for time-travel :D.
| myself248 wrote:
| I would love a way to skip the selection of a hyper-specific date
| and time. Most of the time I really do not care whether I'm
| looking at the page as it existed on March 18th 2006 at 9:13am,
| or April 21st 2006 at 7:44pm.
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| I just want "take me to 2006". One click. Where in 2006 doesn't
| matter, just do something for me, it's probably the right thing.
|
| If I need to get into more detail, okay, THEN let me pull open a
| more specific capture picker.
| vigneshanand wrote:
| Most of the controls in Vandal are designed to allow quick
| navigation to specific snapshots. But I do see a use case for a
| feature like "jump to year" .
| unicornporn wrote:
| You will like this:
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| https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/view-page-arc...
| solarkraft wrote:
| Very much so. Usability is not great across archive.org (it has
| tons of gems, but they're hard to find organically). My small
| recurring donation has the explicit goal of improving it, but
| it looks like that hasn't happened yet.
|
| The greatest Archive of the Internet (and perhaps humanity)
| deserves a better UI.
| beefman wrote:
| Named after Vandal Savage - cool!
| vigneshanand wrote:
| yes. haha!
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