An Alfred Workflow for archiving a webpage with the Wayback Machine.
You can download the latest release (the .alfredworkflow) file, and add it to your list of workflows in Alfred (see Alfred documentation on Workflows).
Archives the frontmost browser tab using Internet Archive's Wayback Machine. Alternatively, you can pass in a URL as an argument, or perform the action from Alfred clipboard history with the Universal Action.
- ↩︎ Archive and copy the archive URL to clipboard.
- ⌘↩︎ Skip the check for existing snapshots. Directly request to create a new one.
- ⌥↩︎ Copy the resulting URL in markdown format:
[archive](<URL>) - ⌃↩︎ Open the Wayback Machine website for archiving. No automatic copy to clipboard.
- Keyword
- Set this to whatever is most convenient for you
- Snapshot Tolerance
- This determines how old an existing snapshot has to be for the workflow to create a new snaptshot
- Maximum Wait for Requests
- Stops the workflow from getting stuck while waiting for a response
- Always On Logging?
- Turn on logs in the workflow data folder
Please provide feedback in the dedicated topic on the Alfred "Share Your Workflows" forum.
✅ Done 🚧 Work in Progress
- ✅ Notifications for when the content is copied to the clipboard
- ✅ Error code detection with appropriate notifications
- ✅ Passing is the URL is optional
- ✅ Configurable keyword
- ✅ "Always on" logging (configurable and off by default)
- ✅ Prompt to notify the developer when there is an unexpected error
- ✅ Skip creating a new archive if there is already a snapshot within the configured timeframe
- External triggers for key functionalities
- Failed snapshot requests are saved for retrying
- A "search" URL is returned instantly while the snapshot is completed in the background
- Helpful and configurable sounds
- I heavily referenced the Wayback When workflow. In fact, the first version of my workflow was built on a duplicate of the Wayback When workflow.
- I also referenced the README of Wayback When for styling this README.
- Thank you FireFingers21 for initial review of the workflow.
- The icon was downloaded from UXWing.