ArchiveBox
Hacker ApprovedWeb archiver in Productivity & writing
Free self-hosted tool that saves copies of web pages to fight link rot. Critics say its bundled headless Chromium can get stuck or use lots of RAM.
Free self-hosted tool that saves copies of web pages to fight link rot. Critics say its bundled headless Chromium can get stuck or use lots of RAM.
15 people gave an opinion
- recommend it
- 13
- criticize it
- 2
- approval share
- 87%
Recommended in 7 of 13 months
- November 2025: recommended
- December 2025: not recommended
- January 2026: not recommended
- February 2026: recommended
- March 2026: recommended
- April 2026: not recommended
- May 2026: recommended
- June 2026: recommended
- July 2026: not recommended
- August 2026: recommended
- September 2026: recommended
- October 2026: not recommended
- November 2026: not recommended (month in progress)
Why it carries the badge
- 13 people recommend itNeeds 10 or more, met.
- 6.5 recommenders for every criticNeeds 2 to 1 or better, met.
- Recommended in 7 of 13 monthsNeeds 4 or more, met.
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What people say about it
The reasons people give, with the number of comments that give each one. Open a reason to read what they said.
Why people recommend it
Each mark is one comment
Self-hosted archive of web pages
“archive box exists to let you self host your own archive service”
Comment from 15 Nov 2025 in “Our investigation into the suspicious pressure on Archive.today” “I run an ArchiveBox instance locally.”
Comment from 14 Feb 2026 in “Internet Increasingly Becoming Unarchivable” “run Archivebox somewhere and pass the URLs into that”
Comment from 14 Mar 2026 in “Hammerspoon” Recent release fixes Chrome crashes
“built-in chrome zombie killing at the start of every crawl, so it shouldnt happen anymore”
Comment from 23 Sep 2026 in “ArchiveBox v0.9 released with new native apps and 50 new plugins” “I promise this release was worth the wait!”
Comment from 22 Sep 2026 in “ArchiveBox v0.9 released with new native apps and 50 new plugins” “I appreciate the quick fix on this!”
Comment from 25 Sep 2026 in “ArchiveBox v0.9 released with new native apps and 50 new plugins” Fights link rot for references
“I'm a big fan of archivebox to combat link rot for documents I frequently reference”
Comment from 23 Sep 2026 in “ArchiveBox v0.9 released with new native apps and 50 new plugins” “For anything I really care about, there's always ArchiveBox.”
Comment from 26 Aug 2026 in “Disruption with Some GitHub Services – Resolved”
What people warn about
Each mark is one comment
Headless Chromium gets stuck or uses RAM
“I love ArchiveBox but the headless Chromium they use has some annoying”
Comment from 12 Nov 2025 in “Perkeep – Personal storage system for life” “the bundled Chromium would get stuck almost daily”
Comment from 23 Sep 2026 in “ArchiveBox v0.9 released with new native apps and 50 new plugins” “archivebox eventually had the Chrome instances (as the meme goes) basically consume all available RAM”
Comment from 11 Mar 2026 in “Show HN: Open-source browser for AI agents (~90% on Mind2Web)”
What people said
17 of the 21 comments that mention it, newest first. Each links to the original comment.
“All the links work perfectly and the more compact UI is awesome.”
“I appreciate the quick fix on this!”
“But while I can see the icons, I can't access the relevant files, the links are broken.”
“built-in chrome zombie killing at the start of every crawl, so it shouldnt happen anymore”
“I am not a fan of the new UI. Is there a way I can switch back to the old layout.”
“the bundled Chromium would get stuck almost daily”
“I'm a big fan of archivebox to combat link rot for documents I frequently reference”
“I promise this release was worth the wait!”
“For anything I really care about, there's always ArchiveBox.”
“and archivebox, which SingleFile being my go to for specific pages”
“run Archivebox somewhere and pass the URLs into that”
“archivebox eventually had the Chrome instances (as the meme goes) basically consume all available RAM”
“it's a shame they don't support URL rewriting”
“I run an ArchiveBox instance locally.”
“archive box exists to let you self host your own archive service”
“I love ArchiveBox but the headless Chromium they use has some annoying”
“It's a pretty solid implementation of that pattern.”
Counts come from 1,795,640 Hacker News comments, November 2025 to November 2026. How we count. Report a mistake.