I have written a webapp to archive linked materials from posts to this forum. It’s really annoying reading a discussion and finding that the reddit post or tiktok video that was linked has since been deleted. This should solve both those problems. It also archives YT videos and some other things. Feature requests are welcome.
The site also allows users to submit URLs for archival. To do so, you need to register an account and become an ‘approved’ user. The easiest way to do become one is to copy the string from your profile page (after logging in) and paste that as the first thing in a public message on the forum. See the post after this for an example where I do that. If automatic way doesn’t work, then you can DM me and I can manually do it. A forum account can only be linked once, so make sure you save the generated username and pw in your password manager.
If you find that you can do anything that seems like it should be admin only, please report it as a bug (eg deleting an archived item, forcing a re-archive, you can access https://cf-archiver.xk.io/admin/user/1, etc).
Please note: this has not been tested very much. I have made sure that reddit and YT work, but it might not work for other sites. Some sites are skipped like wayback machine or archive.today and aliases. You are welcome to submit archival links to test and report bugs here (and/or make feature requests). YT videos over 1hr won’t be archived but it’s possible to add if we want it.
Currently, all approved users can toggle the NSFW status of a post. Please don’t abuse this. I figure this is okay for now since only people who post here (or long time community members who unlurk to DM me) will be approved. The NSFW feature is mostly there as a safeguard. Visibility of NSFW posts can be toggle via the button in the top right. The only reliable NSFW detection is for reddit posts (poorly tested; bugs aside, it should be easy to do reliably).
The site was 99% vibe coded via various claude models. I do the deployment stuff manually, but I wonder whether claude could do all that if I ran claude code on a fresh ubuntu server.
Links to content will usually 307 redirect to the bucket via public URL.
Note: the Archived Page Preview is open on page load by default. I collapsed it in the above image so you could see more of the page.
Videos are saved for YT, tiktok, twitter*, and some other providers (search for streamable on the github repo to find a list)
Comments are saved for YT, tiktok, and twitter*.
* Most of the twitter stuff is untested; I need to set up an account and log in on the server, and probably debug a bit after that.
Also, a comments section on /archive/X pages might appear at some point. I instructed claude to code it, but it doesn’t show up. I am not sure if a comments section is actually useful enough to bother fixing.