Discussion: new name!

Hey everyone! I have a big refactor in the works with some breaking changes, and I thought I’d take this opportunity to re-release BA with a better name and a 1.0 version. The new release modularizes BA into a python package, which lets people import individual parts for their own uses (e.g. parsers, link archiving, screenshotting, indexing). It fixes a lot of the bad decisions I made early on (e.g. using timestamps as unique keys instead of sha256 hashes of the URLs). It also adds a backend with a web GUI for searching and adding imports.

The new name should be easy to find and type in a python packaging context and should be related to web archiving somehow.

Requirements for a new name:

• one word
• no symbols or spaces (since it’s going to be imported as a python package like from webfreeze.pocket import parse_links
• should be 1st in google results when released with a new name (i.e. no competing projects/keywords)
• should be intuitively related to web archiving

Potential ideas:

• WebFreeze
• Freezekit
• ArchiveKit
• WebCooler

Comment with your name suggestions/ideas!

[pirate]

How about ArchiveBox as suggested by @FiloSottile? I like it because “box” implies it lives locally on your computer, and it’s an intuitive CLI and package name too. Also the only competition on google is from physical cardboard boxes on Amazon used for archiving documents.

cd ~/pirates-archive
pip install archivebox
archivebox init
archivebox add https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beans
archivebox crawl --depth=2 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_lists_of_lists
archivebox publish --html /var/www
archivebox server --bind 127.0.0.1:8083

from archivebox.crawl import rss
from archivebox.extract import media

links = crawl_rss(open('feed.rss', 'r').read())
assets = media.extract('https://youtube.com/watch?v=example')

Desktop/mobile/browser extension app name: ArchiveBox.app / ArchiveBox.exe

As much as I love aaarchive, I don’t think it’s a practical choice given an aaarchive group already exists on github and it’s a bit hard to say in a way that’s easy for people to google later.

[f0086]

I like WebFreeze the most from your list. Some random ideas (did not checked on google):

• HTTPFridge (Can be a cool (phun intended) logo with a refridgerator)
• WebFridge