This is a browser extension that lets you send individual browser tabs or all URLs matching certain patterns to your ArchiveBox instance for offline preservation. This has a couple of benefits:
- Own your data: save the web content that matters to you most, protect against link rot
- Protect your data: save offline copies of pages in common, durable formats that will last for generations
- Use your data: collect and tag important bookmarks, full-text search through your browsing history, automatically push captured data into other systems using ArchiveBox's APIs
Chrome / Brave / Edge / Other Chromium-based browsers
Firefox / Waterfox / Tor Browser / Other Firefox-based browsers
Safari (not yet supported, use Save-to-ArchiveBox Shortcut instead)
- updated the extension to Manifest v3 using WXT, React, and TypeScript
- added a Saved URLs view where you can see, search, sort, tag, sync, delete, and export the URLs you've collected so far
- added the ability to import URLs from browser history / bookmarks by date range or filter query
- added the ability to export selected URLs as CSV/JSON, selected screenshots as PNG, selected MHTML snapshots as
.mhtml, or a ZIP bundle containing all selected snapshot data and local artifacts - added extension-local full-page screenshot capture for saved URLs
- added extension-local MHTML capture for saved URLs on Chrome / Chromium browsers
- added the ability to edit extension config options, allowlist/denylist, ArchiveBox server URL, API key, and authentication profiles from the options page
- added the ability to test the connection to your ArchiveBox server
When local capture saving is enabled in the options page, the extension stores capture artifacts in the browser's extension-local OPFS storage before the popup is shown:
- Full-page screenshot:
snapshots/YYYYMMDD/example.com/{uuid}/chrome_extension_screenshot/screenshot.png - MHTML snapshot:
snapshots/YYYYMMDD/example.com/{uuid}/chrome_extension_mhtml/snapshot.mhtml
Screenshots are shown as thumbnails in the Saved URLs table when at least one saved URL has a screenshot, and can be exported as PNG from the Export menu. MHTML snapshots can also be exported from the same menu. The ZIP export includes the selected CSV/JSON metadata plus local artifacts under the same snapshots/YYYYMMDD/example.com/{uuid}/... paths used in OPFS. When an MHTML snapshot is available, the Saved URLs table title opens an extension-local viewer for that snapshot.
MHTML capture uses Chrome's pageCapture.saveAsMHTML() extension API and is available in Chrome / Chromium builds. Firefox builds still save the URL and screenshot, but skip MHTML capture because the Chrome page capture API is not available there.
- Set up an ArchiveBox server and make sure it's accessible to the machine you're browsing on
- Configure your ArchiveBox server to allow URL submissions without requiring login (more info here...)
>= v0.8.5: users of the new BETA releases can use an API key generated at/admin/api/apitoken/instead.
Alternatively: if you stay signed in to your ArchiveBox instance in the same browser, it will share your login credentials.archivebox config --set PUBLIC_ADD_VIEW=True # (make sure to restart the server after if you apply this change)
- Configure the extension to point to your ArchiveBox server's base URL (e.g.
http://localhost:8000,https://archivebox.example.com, etc.)
- ✅ Test it out by right-clicking on any page and selecting
Save to ArchiveBox, or by clicking the extension icon in the menubar.
✨ Originally contributed by TJ Horner (@tjhorner), now maintained by @benmuth and the ArchiveBox team.
If you wish to contribute to (or just build for yourself) this extension, you will need to download and install Node.js and pnpm.
git clone https://github.com/ArchiveBox/archivebox-browser-extension
cd archivebox-browser-extension/
pnpm install
pnpm compile
pnpm build
pnpm build:firefoxFor local development:
pnpm dev # Chrome / Chromium
pnpm dev:firefox # FirefoxFor a production-style local build, load .output/chrome-mv3 into Chrome / Chromium using the Load Unpacked Extension UI, or load .output/firefox-mv3 into Firefox using about:debugging.
To create store upload bundles:
pnpm zip
pnpm zip:firefoxPlease open an issue to discuss any proposed changes before starting work on any PRs.
- 2026-05 Extension v3.0.1 migrated to WXT, React, TypeScript, Manifest v3, local screenshot capture, and Chrome MHTML capture
- 2025-03 New Manifest v3 Extension v2.1.3 Released
- 2024-11 Development started on v2 extension with more advanced UI and tagging options
- 2024-01 Extension repo moved from
tjhorner/archivebox-exportertoArchivebox/archivebox-browser-extension - 2021-09 Extension offically supported by ArchiveBox v0.6.2, no longer needed to run
:devbranch - 2021-07 Initial extension published on Chrome and Mozilla web stores
- 2021-06 @tjhorner Created the initial
archivebox-exporterextension
Other browser extensions that also do web archiving which may be a better fit if ArchiveBox doesn't suit your needs.
- ArchiveWeb.page (super high fidelity archiving extension by Webrecorder)
- SingleFile (a great extension for saving pages into a single
.htmlfile, built-in to ArchiveBox already) - Hypothesis (extension focused on annotating, but also supports archiving)
- Memex (another project focused on annotating that supports archiving)
- Save Page WE (a Firefox extension that also saves webpages as a single HTML file)
Other projects that help with ingest URLs into ArchiveBox from various sources.
- https://github.com/layderv/archivefox (user-contributed extension for Firefox)
- https://github.com/Gertje823/ArchiveboxTelegramBot (Telegram Bot to send URLs to ArchiveBox)
- https://github.com/TheCakeIsNaOH/xbs-to-archivebox (Download your bookmarks from xBrowserSync, filter them, and save them into ArchiveBox)
- https://github.com/emschu/archivebox-quick-add (golang utility to add links to ArchiveBox)
- https://github.com/FracturedCode/archivebox-reddit (automatically back up saved Reddit comments, posts, etc. to ArchiveBox)
- https://github.com/dbeley/reddit_export_userdata (older Python utility to archive reddit content to ArchiveBox)
- https://github.com/jess-sol/reddit-exporter (export reddit data to ArchiveBox)
- https://github.com/jonesd/archivebox-pinboard-tranformer (export links from pinboard to ArchiveBox)
- https://github.com/agg23/archivebox-url-forwarder (older WebExtension to forward URLs to archivebox)
MIT License