About this extension

Hoardy-Web passively captures and collects dumps of HTTP requests and responses as you browse the web, and then archives them using one or more of the following methods:

by saving them into your browser’s local storage, which is the default;
by submitting them to your own private archiving server via HTTP, like
- the advanced archival+replay server hoardy-web serve (also on GitHub) or
- the simple archiving-only server hoardy-web-sas (also on GitHub);
by generating fake-Downloads containing bundles of those dumps, making your browser simply save them to your Downloads directory.

Hoardy-Web produces dumps in a very simple, yet efficient, WRR file format (also on GitHub).

Moreover, Hoardy-Web implements:

UI indicators that help in ensuring good and complete website captures,
optional post-capture machinery that helps in archiving only select subsets of captured data;
archival+replay integration when used in combination with an advanced archiving+replay server like hoardy-web serve (also on GitHub);
capture of DOM snapshots;
inspection of captured HTTP traffic, similar to browser’s own Network Monitor (except browser-wise, i.e., it can capture HTTP requests even when a page generates them when its tab/window closes; which a surprising number of websites does to prevent their web traffic from being inspected with Network Monitor);
some generally useful web browsing features (like per-tab Work offline mode).

In other words, this extension implements an in-browser half of your own personal private passive Wayback Machine that archives everything you see, including HTTP POST requests and responses (e.g. answer pages of web search engines), as well as most other HTTP-level data (AJAX, JSON RPC, etc).

For more information see project’s documentation (also on GitHub) and extension’s Help page (also on GitHub) (also distributed with the extension itself, available via the “Help” button from its popup UI), especially the “Frequently Asked Questions” section there (also on GitHub).

Also, note that:

Hoardy-Web DOES NOT send any of your captured web browsing data anywhere, unless you explicitly configure it to do so.
Hoardy-Web DOES NOT send any telemetry anywhere.
Both of the above statements will apply to all future versions of Hoardy-Web.

Hoardy-Web was previously known as “Personal Private Passive Web Archive” aka pWebArc.

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Release notes for 1.20.0

[extension-v1.20.0] - 2024-12-24: Annoyance and bug fixes

Added

- Core + Popup UI:

- Implemented config.limboNotifyInterval option and its popup UI.

It prevents “Too much stuff in limbo” notifications from being generated more frequently than given number of seconds, which makes them much less annoying.

Changed

- Core:

- From now on, retryUnarchived scheduled action can be canceled (until a new reqres gets captured) with the cancelActions (red square) button.

- Unavailable and non-archiving servers produce different notification error messages and are handled differently now.

- Archivals to broken servers and localStorage produce nicer notification errors now.

- Unrecoverable archival failures now get a hint about using the retryFailed popup UI button in their notification messages.

- From now on, pressing keyboard shortcuts and popup UI buttons will force immediate updates to displayed notifications.

I.e. no longer relevant notifications will disappear immediately.

(Thanks to @douglasg14b on GitHub for pointing out three out of five of the above.)

- The Help page:

- Added “Table of Contents” section.

- Moved and adapted a bunch move stuff from top-level README.md.

- Improved some pieces of it.

- Other documentation pages:

- Improved rendering of various references, added more of them.

- Improved in many random places.

Fixed

- All documentation pages:

- Clicking on internal links will now replace history states that point to other links.

This makes the use of “Back” browser button more intuitive.

- Core:

- On Firefox, fixed an issue when, with a popup UI open, opening “Internal State” page would make the popup show the wrong tab stats until a tab switch.

- On Firefox, fixed popup UI’s tab stats flickering between inconsistent states when, with a popup UI open, a new tab gets opened, starts loading, and then gets redirected, with all of it happening really fast.

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