From 932772f22426cf03fa67d425f217ac6ff0bdf00c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Nick Sweeting Date: Tue, 19 Mar 2019 04:49:33 -0400 Subject: [PATCH] Update README.md --- README.md | 5 ++--- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) diff --git a/README.md b/README.md index 360b806d..e9a90411 100644 --- a/README.md +++ b/README.md @@ -35,10 +35,9 @@ You can use it to preserve access to websites you care about by storing them loc ```bash echo 'http://example.com' | ./archive ``` +Just download the repo and pipe some links into the `./archive` command to start archiving. -Simply download the repo and run the `./archive` command each time you want to add new links. ArchiveBox is written in Python 3 and uses wget, Chrome headless, youtube-dl, pywb, and other common unix tools to save each page you add in multiple redundant formats. - -It doesn't require a constantly running server or backend, just open the generated `output/index.html` in a browser to view the archive. It can import and export links as JSON (among other formats), so it's easy to script or hook up to other APIs. If you run it on a schedule and import from browser history or bookmarks regularly, you can sleep soundly knowing that the slice of the internet you care about will be automatically preserved in multiple, durable long-term formats that will be accessible for decades (or longer). +ArchiveBox is written in Python 3.5 and uses wget, Chrome headless, youtube-dl, pywb, and other common unix tools to save each page you add in multiple redundant formats. It doesn't require a constantly running server or backend, just open the generated `output/index.html` in a browser to view the archive. It can import and export links as JSON (among other formats), so it's easy to script or hook up to other APIs. If you run it on a schedule and import from browser history or bookmarks regularly, you can sleep soundly knowing that the slice of the internet you care about will be automatically preserved in multiple, durable long-term formats that will be accessible for decades (or longer).