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sissbruecker / linkding

Self-hosted bookmark manager that is designed be to be minimal, fast, and easy to set up using Docker.
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Speficy a date for the Internet Archive link #637

Closed fcastilloec closed 4 months ago

fcastilloec commented 4 months ago

I recently decided to use Linkding, mainly because of the Internet Archive functionality. Because I'm coming from a different service, I imported all my bookmarks and now they all have a link in the WaybackMachine.

My problem is that some of my old bookmarks have broken sites. The link to the Internet Archive is pointing to the newest, broken site. I haven't seen a way to edit this link to point it to an earlier version.

For example: Drunken Irish Stew returns a page with the body "HTTP Status: 404 (not found)", this is not an error message from the browser but an actual page. The Internet Archive link points to this broken site, but I want to set the URL to March 23, 2016.

Maybe this functionality is already there but I don't know how to do it

fcastilloec commented 4 months ago

Actually, I'm going to answer my own question. I just discovered the Admin page, where I can edit every single detail of any bookmark. I was able to change the Internet Archive URL, and even the date displayed for the link.

Given that the functionality is there, I don't think there's a need for a field under the "Edit" menu, especially since not everybody uses the Internet Archive. Maybe a quick note in your README might help other people find this workaround.

sissbruecker commented 4 months ago

Thanks, sounds like the admin view is a reasonable solution for this case. Feel free to contribute to the docs, there is a (somewhat outdated) admin documentation that might be appropriate.