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Building a Personal Archive with Hoarder

Published on: 2025-06-14 20:46:28

Building a Personal Archive With Hoarder In this day and age, what with gestures at everything it’s important to preserve and record information that may be removed from the internet, lost or forgotten. I’ve recently been using Hoarder to create a self-hosted personal archive of web content that I’ve found interesting or useful. Hoarder is an open source project that runs on your own server and allows you to search, filter and tag web content. Crucially, it also takes a full copy of web content and stores it locally so that you can access it even if the original site goes down. A Brief Review of Hoarder Hoarder runs a headless version of Chrome (i.e. it doesn’t actually open windows up on your server, it just simulates them) and uses this to download content from sites. In the case of paywalled content (maybe you want to save down a copy of a newspaper article for later reference), it can work with SingleFile which is a browser plugin for Chrome and Firefox (including mobile) that s ... Read full article.