HyperWalker

Hypertext grabber...

Snapshot and sanitize webpages just-as-they-are in a headless Firefox.

Using the Freeze-dry javascript library for self-contained HTML file snapshots.

Roadmap

• Debug mode
• HTTP API
• Make use of freeze-dry's customisation abilities

Requirements

Runtime

• Firefox (in your path)

Compile

• Go (to compile)
• Earthly or Nix (for building)

Build & Run

Build & Run Manually

$ mkdir -p js/dist
$ wget -O js/dist/freeze-dry.umd.js https://git.callpipe.com/dvn/hyperwalker/-/jobs/16551/artifacts/raw/build/freeze-dry/freeze-dry.umd.js
$ go build
$ ./HyperWalker -url https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Random

Using Earthly

$ earthly config global.disable_analytics true
$ earthly config global.disable_log_sharing true
$ earthly +build
$ ./build/hyperwalker -url https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Random

Using Nix Flake

Nix super-quickstart:

$ nix run sourcehut:~dvn/HyperWalker -- -url https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Random

More involved:

$ nix build
$ mkdir -p $HOME/.hyperwalker/logs
$ ./result/HyperWalker -url https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Random

$ # or to build and run directly:
$ mkdir -p $HOME/.hyperwalker/logs
$ nix run . -- -url https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Random

Run Using Docker

$ docker run --rm registry.git.callpipe.com/dvn/hyperwalker:latest /hyperwalker/hyperwalker -url https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Random

Test

Warning: This runs Firefox in a docker container and takes several minutes the first time around.

$ earthly +firefox-image
$ earthly +application-test