Pocket Stream Archive

(Your own personal Way-Back Machine)

Save an archived copy of all websites you star using Pocket, indexed in an html file.

Quickstart

Dependencies: Google Chrome headless, wget

brew install Caskroom/versions/google-chrome-canary
brew install wget

# OR on linux

wget -q -O - https://dl-ssl.google.com/linux/linux_signing_key.pub | sudo apt-key add -
sudo sh -c 'echo "deb [arch=amd64] http://dl.google.com/linux/chrome/deb/ stable main" >> /etc/apt/sources.list.d/google-chrome.list'
apt update; apt install google-chrome-beta

Usage:

1. Download your pocket export file ril_export.html from https://getpocket.com/export
2. Download this repo git clone https://github.com/pirate/pocket-archive-stream
3. cd pocket-archive-stream/
4. ./archive.py ~/Downloads/ril_export.html

It produces a folder pocket/ containing an index.html, and archived copies of all the sites, organized by timestamp. For each sites it saves:

• wget of site, e.g. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Example.html with .html appended if not present
• sreenshot.png 1440x900 screenshot of site using headless chrome
• output.pdf Printed PDF of site using headless chrome

Publishing Your Archive

The pocket archive is suitable for serving on your personal server, you can upload the pocket archive to /var/www/pocket and allow people to access your saved copies of sites.

Just stick this in your nginx config to properly serve the wget-archived sites:

location /pocket/ {
    alias     /var/www/pocket/;
    try_files $uri $uri/ $uri.html =404;
}

Make sure you're not running any content as CGI or PHP, you only want to serve static files!

Urls look like: https://sweeting.me/pocket/archive/1493350273/en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dining_philosophers_problem

Info

This is basically an open-source version of Pocket Premium. I got tired of sites I saved going offline or changing their URLS, so I started archiving a copy of them locally now, similar to The Way-Back Machine provided by archive.org.

Now I can rest soundly knowing important articles and resources I like wont dissapear off the internet.

sweeting.me/pocket

Security WARNING

Hosting other people's site content has security implications for your domain, make sure you understand the dangers of hosting other people's CSS & JS files on your domain. It's best to put this on a domain of its own to slightly mitigate CSRF attacks.

It might also be prudent to blacklist your archive in your robots.txt so that search engines dont index the content on your domain.