pinvault

A personal, multi-media, distributed and social web archiving tool

Easily download, organize and share every video, image, article, audio file and website you care about. Think pinterest, mastodon, the internet archive and bittorrent mashed up in a single app.

Vision

• Content Extraction: Pinvault makes it as easy as possible to save only the stuff you care about. Want to archive a youtube video? Using youtube-dl, pinvault saves a simple video file. When archiving a page pinvault doesn't know how to process, you can choose the things it should extract with a few clicks.
• Distribution: Everything pinvault downloads is saved in IPFS. If you choose to publish a download's IPFS address, others can access the content even if the original source website is offline.
• Follow anything, anywhere: Using a few clicks, you can show pinvault how to monitor a webpage for new items and automatically download them, creating your own permanent, universal newsfeed.
• Discover: You can (optionally) set up pinvault on a server to follow other pinvault users and share your own activity!

Try it out

If you're interested, send me an email and I will reply with instructions on how to get pinvault running on your machine. If you're tech-savvy, check the section on setting up a development version.

Roadmap

The vision outlined above is, at the moment, just a vision. Listed below are the features already implemented, as well as the things that are to come next.

0.1

• simple webextension / bookmarklet
• youtube-dl integration
• IPFS integration
• simple web UI for browsing downloads
• handle downloads in the background

0.2

• Content tagging
• use a headless browser to connect to pages
• simple image extraction heuristic
• element Picker for downloads

future

• "Readability"-like article normalization
• Discover and monitor RSS feeds
• Element Picker for monitoring changes
• Automatic content backup on other devices
• Multi-user installations
• ActivityPub integration
• reddit integration

Similar Projects

• ArchiveBox
• InterPlanetary Wayback

Development Setup

Install dependencies:

• ipfs
• rust
• diesel cli: cargo install diesel_cli
• youtube-dl

cp .env.example .env and edit it to your liking. Create the database using diesel migration run. Start the ipfs daemon. Pinvault assumes the default IPFS ports for communicating with IPFS.

Try running the pinvault CLI: cargo run. You should see a summary of pinvault's available commands. To access the web UI, use cargo run server.

License

AGPL3+. See LICENSE file for details.

Copyright 2020 Rafael Epplée

This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.

This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details.

You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with this program. If not, see https://www.gnu.org/licenses/.