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I remember something I saw but can't find it. I want to search
in
the texts referred to by the website list in my browsing history.
(Or in any list of websites for that...)
grep
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grep
"a command-line utility for searching plain-text data sets" [8th of 7, Dec 08 2020]
[link]
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I think you can run a search against your google account
search history - but for that, you need to have fairly reliably
run all your searches under your google username - which
might put off some. It seems to be an option here in
Chrome, might not extend to other browsers, I'm not sure. |
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How do I do that? I don't mean searching for a phrase in the
history list, I mean to search for the phrase in the websites
themselves, those that my history list refers to. |
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My bad - just tried it and the secondary search only works
on webpage _titles_ that appear in your history, not the
original full-text. Sorry, as you were. |
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If your device doesn't support grep, then you need to get one with a proper operating system. |
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I'm in the habit of saving any interesting pages I visit; it conserves bandwidth, defends against bitrot, and incidentally solves [Pashute]'s problem. |
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As Socrates said, Ya cain't grep what ya hain't kep' |
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I too am a webpage hoarder. Do you think we should form a
support group? |
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I've been archiving news on a daily basis for the
last 3 years - being able to enter a search term,
and
see how it appears over time can sometimes be
illuminating - but the process is through heavy
reliance on an ever diminishing set of free-to-
access rss feeds. Interestingly, the idea of data
as an asset has caused a number of information
sources to charge for access to their data. Reuters
turned off their free-to-access news feed, probably
to encourage interested parties to pay for access
to their curated repository as a commercial asset.
A
"seen-it-stored-it" facility would save a lot of
fiddling about. |
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I was about to point you to the Colindale newspaper archive,
which I have used happily in the past, [zen_tom], but it seems the
news from there is not good. |
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// I too am a webpage hoarder. // |
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More deserving of pity than condemnation ... |
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// Do you think we should form a support group? // |
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What, like trestles, or a brick plinth or something ? |
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There's a TV program about going round to people's houses and "de-cluttering" them, with the aid of a skip. |
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Fortunately, a relatively short burst of 7.62mm automatic fire (1 round in 5 tracer) aimed just above head height is enough to send them scurrying away. |
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Maybe you need someone like them, but for your offline archive ? The trick with the automatic fire will probably work just as well if you don't... |
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I can see it coming: The next YouTube advertisements trend
with Declutter the Computer experts. |
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[pertinax] it's a pain, the only way to (non-commercially)
get good content seems to be to manually scrape it from
ever changing websites - the hard part is automatically
monitoring for when the format of those sites change, so
you can recode the scrapers. It's disheartening to clean up
a dataset and find gaps in the middle when something
stopped working due to a redesign. |
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[pashute] have you come across `youtube-dl`? It's a unix
utility for downloading content from youtube - I'm yet to
find a tangible use for it, but it is handy, and does mean
you can pull content down and watch offline, at leisure
without the imposition of advertising - It can only be a
matter of time before it gets disabled/blocked. |
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