Cursed API for ArchiveBox

ArchiveBox doesn't have a web API yet. This is shitty single-endpoint API to automate page archiving. It uses subprocess to run archivebox CLI. archivebox CLI runs in new thread to avoid blocking main thread.

Deployment

You must deploy API to server which ArchieveBox runs.

Make working directory, create virtualenv and install dependencies:

apt install -y git python3-venv
mkdir -p /opt/cursed_archievebox_api && cd /opt/cursed_archievebox_api
python -m venv env
source env/bin/activate
pip install bottle gunicorn
git clone https://git.nxhs.cloud/ge/cursed-archivebox-api.git .

Start API. Set actual path to docker-compose.yml:

ARCHIVEBOX_BIN="docker compose -f /opt/archievebox/docker-compose.yml run archivebox" python cursed_archivebox_api.py

See also cursed-archivebox-api.service.

Install service:

cp cursed-archivebox-api.service /etc/systemd/system
systemctl enable --now cursed-archivebox-api.service

See logs:

journalctl -u cursed-archivebox-api.service -f

Environment

Variable	Default
ARCHIVEBOX_BIN	/usr/bin/archivebox (default for non-Docker installations)
CURSED_PORT	9998
CURSED_HOST	0.0.0.0
CURSED_SERVER	gunicorn See server backends

GET /add

Query parameters:

• url. Resource URL
• depth. Archive depth. Default: 0 (current page)
• tag. List of comma separated tags e.g. my_tag, my_tag,another_one.

Example request:

curl -i 'http://localhost:9998/add?url=https://example.com&depth=0&tag=api,example'