from Hacker News

Building a Personal Archive with Hoarder

by edward on 3/16/25, 3:46 PM with 21 comments

  • by bdeshi on 3/17/25, 12:03 AM

    btw the hoarder project is an active victim of a patent troll[0][1]; the official Firefox extension is currently blocked by dmca[2]. any donations might be helpful.

    [0]: https://github.com/hoarder-app/hoarder/commit/b2c795ccb562c0...

    [1]: https://www.reddit.com/r/selfhosted/s/CMCPP7cc8i

    [2]: https://github.com/hoarder-app/hoarder/issues/899

  • by nickthegreek on 3/16/25, 8:22 PM

    Set this up a couple weeks using an proxmox lxc script and have it using ollama to create tags. I hadn’t heard of singlefile before. That seems like an excellent pairing.
  • by 3eb7988a1663 on 3/16/25, 11:22 PM

    Thoughts on this vs something like ArchiveBox?
  • by Tepix on 3/17/25, 8:50 AM

    Talking about hoarding, LTO tapes are the king of cheap storage, but if you want to archive significant amounts (hundreds of TB or more), it takes a significant investment to buy a tape library with somewhat recent drive. Too bad there aren't any alternatives - or are there?
  • by nirav72 on 3/18/25, 11:30 AM

    Didn't realize Hoarder now supports SingleFile extension. amazing.

    Regarding Hoarder - by selfhosting Hoarder , I was able to cancel my $40/year subscription to Pocket. With the money saved - I added $10 of OpenAI's API credits and use gpt-4o-mini for tagging. I don't have a powerful enough GPU to selfhost Ollama on my NAS where I'm hosting Hoarder. But gpt-4o-mini is dirt cheap for these type of use cases.

  • by seltzered_ on 3/17/25, 12:28 AM

    Worth noting that Linkding (what the author migrated from to Hoarder) also now supports page archiving via headless Chrome + SingleFile and also via manual upload: https://linkding.link/archiving/
  • by lurking_swe on 3/17/25, 3:04 AM

    Can Hoarder archive a webpage protected by some kind of auth / login?