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Question: what do title, pull, re-snapshot do exactly?

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Hi there! Just had a few questions.

What does “title” do in the web UI? It appears to re-try fetching headers, favicon, and HTML title for content at a URL – is that correct?
What does “pull” do in the web UI?
How about if we added tooltips (HTML title attributes) to the “title”, “pull”, “re-snapshot”, “reset”, and “delete” buttons to /admin/core/snapshot/ in the web UI? I couldn’t find an existing issue for this. I’m happy to file one and help out.
Say I used re-snapshot a bunch of days in a row. Is there some easy way to see/list all the versions I’ve snapshotted for a particular URL? When I click “History” on the admin page for a snapshot, it says “This object doesn’t have a change history. It probably wasn’t added via this admin site.”. I saw #179 so I’m guessing this isn’t implemented yet.
Sometimes when I visit the index page for a snapshot, my browser (Firefox) starts automatically downloading an output.pdf file. Why? example archivebox snapshot index page showing this behavior
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Thank you, -Adam

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akhilleusuggocommented, Feb 17, 2022

How about if we added tooltips (HTML title attributes) to the “title”, “pull”, “re-snapshot”, “reset”, and “delete” buttons to /admin/core/snapshot/ in the web UI? I couldn’t find an existing issue for this. I’m happy to file one and help out.

-Title : Pull the title ( redownload if it was missing, or the title has changed )

-Pull: Download missing/failed outputs/extractors methods ( pdf, wget… etc). Maybe because download failed or interrupted by a reboot or something. This is the default behavior when you add new URL, they will get pulled automatically. https://github.com/ArchiveBox/ArchiveBox#output-formats

-Re-snapshot: As the name suggests, re-download the page as a separated unique page. Not the same as pull, this one will create a separate entry, and the page is treated as a new URL ending with the date and time #2020-10-24-08:00 https://github.com/ArchiveBox/ArchiveBox#saving-multiple-snapshots-of-a-single-url

-Reset: Delete all type of output and redownload them. In the contrary of snapshot, this will overwrite the files.

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meonkeyscommented, Feb 25, 2022

Oh dangit, you’re right!

For posterity: it looks like Firefox must indeed be configured to open PDFs in Firefox (as opposed to the other options: Always ask, Save File, etc) for this to work properly. On a snapshot index page, the PDF viewer tries to open the PDF in an iframe. If Firefox is set to Save File, the iframe instead ends up triggering a file download of output.pdf.