GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 585925
Bookmark webpage as web archive
Last modified: 2013-12-15 16:26:00 UTC
aka Save bookmark permanently. This is a feature request to make it possible, to save bookmarks not only as an URL, but at the same time save a "snapshot" or "web archive" of the bookmark. Oftentimes a bookmark is saved to store information or an important article. The nature of the web however, allows that even if you save it, the page might not be there when you try to retrieve it. This is a feature that I would like to have, and it fits directly in the web browser; after all, the web archive is only a fallback when the site does not respond any more, has removed the information, or you are offline. It turns out the same bug has been filed before, and the rationale there is very well expressed. Read more about this feature suggestion for Konqueror: http://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=87215
I like the idea, but my gut feeling says this should be done in combination with Tracker, Beagle or similar indexing services.
Do you mean a desktop-wide web archiving service? Suppose we could implement this feature as an Extension to epiphany, then we should 1. Find a suitable and standard web format so that the user can control its data and indexers like Tracker/Beagle can index it. 2. Store it to agreed location. If the file format is right, this doesn't matter I imagine archivers to be picky people, and we might need some settings: In epiphany, choose which tags to archive or just archive all with tag "archive" (and have setting to archive all). Always archive only the first level, the exact page bookmarked. Have a setting whether to include images (and very optional, embeds). Allow the image/embed setting to be overridden when saving a specific bookmark.
Thanks for the bug report. This particular bug has already been reported into our bug tracking system, but please feel free to report any further bugs you find. *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 685685 ***