WebArchives
A web archives viewer Source
Description
A web archives viewer offering the ability to browse offline millions of articles from large community projects such as Wikipedia or Wikisource.
Features:
- List recently opened web archives
- List available local web archives
- List of web archives available to download
- Print a page
- Night mode (Darkreader)
- Zoom controls
- Search in page
- History
- Bookmarks
- Search a page
- Keyboard shortcuts
- Multi-windows
- Multi-tabs
- Random page
- Sandboxed pages (Pages are isolated from the web)
- Ask for confirmation when opening an external link
- Handle the opening of zim files from external applications (Nautilus...)
Notice
Only supports ZIM files, but works pretty great!
- https://raw.githubusercontent.com/birros/web-archives/master/data/appdata/screenshots/home.png
- https://raw.githubusercontent.com/birros/web-archives/master/data/appdata/screenshots/search.png
- https://raw.githubusercontent.com/birros/web-archives/master/data/appdata/screenshots/web-earth.png
- https://raw.githubusercontent.com/birros/web-archives/master/data/appdata/screenshots/web-wikipedia.png
Rating
Mobile Fit: 5Perfect - this app fits your phone screen just fine out of the box and works nicely with touch input!
Project status: early
This project has been in development for a short time only. It should work mostly fine, but expect bugs and an incomplete featureset.
Features
Packaging
Get it on Flathub!
Build and install your own flatpak: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/birros/web-archives/master/build-aux/flatpak/com.github.birros.WebArchives.yml
If you're lucky*, you can install this app by just hitting this button:
Install* You need to have an appstream://
handler, e.g., GNOME Software or KDE Discover, installed and the app needs to be available in a configured software repository, more details.
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Licensing and technical details
License: GPL-3.0-or-later Metadata: CC0-1.0
Programming languages: Vala
Build system: meson
AppStream Metadata URL: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/birros/web-archives/master/data/appdata/com.github.birros.WebArchives.appdata.xml.in