ArchiveBox

🗃 Open source self-hosted web archiving. Takes URLs/browser history/bookmarks/Pocket/Pinboard/etc., saves HTML, JS, PDFs, media, and more...

⭐ 28,878 stars on GitHub · 🍴 1,622 forks · 📜 License: mit · 💻 Language: Python

What is ArchiveBox?

A self-hosted media server — turn your NAS/VPS into a personal cinema. Stream movies & music to your household without subscription dependency.

Main components

• Free & open source, own your own data & maintain your privacy by self-hosting
• Powerful CLI with modular dependencies and support for Google Drive/NFS/SMB/S3/B2/etc.
• Comprehensive documentation, active development, and rich community
• Extracts a wide variety of content out-of-the-box: media (yt-dlp), articles (readability), code (git), etc.
• Supports scheduled/realtime importing from many types of sources
• Uses standard, durable, long-term formats like HTML, JSON, PDF, PNG, MP4, TXT, and WARC
• Powerful CLI, self-hosted web UI, Python API (BETA), REST API (ALPHA), or desktop app
• Saves all pages to archive.org as well by default for redundancy (can be disabled for local-only mode)

Clear use cases

• archivebox help/version to see the list of available subcommands / currently installed version info
• archivebox setup/init/config/status/shell/manage to administer your collection
• archivebox add/schedule to pull in fresh URLs from bookmarks/history/RSS/etc.
• archivebox list/update/remove to manage existing Snapshots in your collection
• 📱 ArchiveBox iOS Mobile App
• 🖥️ ArchiveBox.app macOS Desktop App

The biggest strength is offline-first streaming + ad-free + unlimited library scaled by your disk size.

Best for families building home theaters, small hotels streaming internal media, creators archiving work.

Topics: the project is tagged with popular topics:

• 🏷️ archivebox
• 🏷️ backups
• 🏷️ bookmark-archiver
• 🏷️ browser-bookmarks
• 🏷️ chromium
• 🏷️ digipres
• 🏷️ firefox
• 🏷️ headless-browser
• 🏷️ internet-archiving
• 🏷️ pinboard

📸 Screenshots

Quick install

The project supports Docker Compose:

git clone https://github.com/ArchiveBox/ArchiveBox.git
cd ArchiveBox
docker compose up -d

Check the README in the repo for required env variables.

Minimum system requirements

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🎯 Benefits:

• One-command docker compose up -d deploy in 2 minutes
• Dedicated IPv4, root access, unmetered domestic bandwidth
• Daily snapshot backup
• Free install assistance from the VSIS team

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Resources

• 🔗 GitHub: ArchiveBox/ArchiveBox
• 🌐 Homepage: https://archivebox.io
• 📚 Official docs: see README in the repo
• 💬 Community: GitHub Issues + Discussions

Article compiled from GitHub data on 24/10/2026. Star/fork counts may have changed — see live numbers via the GitHub link.