This gem automatically extracts and archives URLs from a text file on Archive.org and replaces the original URL with the archived URL
URL Eternalizer can work on any ASCII text
The idea is to:
apply it manually on README.md and see how that works
create a minimal docker container that can be run though CLI on .md file in filesystem and has all the dependencies installed
add a pre-commit hook that runs this CLI command using that image and updates plain URLs from the README with archive.org mirror
add CI check that would make sure there are no un-archived URLs that were created e.g manually though GH web UI and do not follow this convention
update CONTRIBUTING documentation to include this convention
This would allow awesome list to include always available URLs to all scientific papers.
Despite cool uris do not change we already have issues with some paper links having HTTP 500 and not being available from time to time.
The idea is to use a mirror on archive.org instead of exact url instead and that way make urls eternal.
There is a ruby gem that should work Inventitech/url-eternalizer created with similar motivation:
The idea is to:
This would allow awesome list to include always available URLs to all scientific papers.