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Import of webarchives #44

Open rolandbley opened 5 years ago

rolandbley commented 5 years ago

Please explain your idea to make the app better:

I would really appreciate, if I could import .webarchive-Files in collect.

holtwick commented 5 years ago

I like this idea very much. The benefit would be to have searchable snapshots of web pages as they looked like at a certain time.

Possible alternatives:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_ARChive
PDF
PNG Screenshot

holtwick commented 5 years ago

Implementation Note

For efficient storage considering these ZIP helpers:

https://github.com/Stuk/jszip https://www.npmjs.com/package/extract-zip

holtwick commented 5 years ago

Webarchive is a Plist formatted file. It is also used if something is copied from Safari. External resources are also referenced.

In order to render previews if no other native way of doing it exists:

holtwick commented 5 years ago

kUTTypeWebArchive

holtwick commented 5 years ago

Important data to store:

URL!
Title!
Description || First 200 chars/ words
Flattened HTML (like for Evernotes) that can be converted to an editable note || Plain Text Content
Open Graph Image || Favicon
Thumbnail of rendered page
? Persisted look: Webarchive, PDF, Image, Embedded HTML

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