ArchiveBox VS SheetsInterview

ArchiveBox's answer

• Django
• SQLite
• Wget
• Chromium
• Youtube-dl / yt-dlp
• singlefile
• readability
• mercury
• git
• ripgrep
• sonic

SheetsInterview's answer:

Using Next.js, Prisma, Render.com, PostgreSQL.

ArchiveBox's answer

• Monadical.com
• United Nations
• many more... https://github.com/ArchiveBox/ArchiveBox/wiki/Web-Archiving-Community

ArchiveBox's answer

ArchiveBox aims to enable more of the internet to be saved from deterioration by empowering people to self-host their own archives. The intent is for all the web content you care about to be viewable with common software in 50 - 100 years without needing to run ArchiveBox or other specialized software to replay it.

Vast treasure troves of knowledge are lost every day on the internet to link rot. As a society, we have an imperative to preserve some important parts of that treasure, just like we preserve our books, paintings, and music in physical libraries long after the originals go out of print or fade into obscurity.

Whether it's to resist censorship by saving articles before they get taken down or edited, or just to save a collection of early 2010's flash games you love to play, having the tools to archive internet content enables to you save the stuff you care most about before it disappears.

Image from WTF is Link Rot?... The balance between the permanence and ephemeral nature of content on the internet is part of what makes it beautiful. I don't think everything should be preserved in an automated fashion--making all content permanent and never removable, but I do think people should be able to decide for themselves and effectively archive specific content that they care about.

Because modern websites are complicated and often rely on dynamic content, ArchiveBox archives the sites in several different formats beyond what public archiving services like Archive.org/Archive.is save. Using multiple methods and the market-dominant browser to execute JS ensures we can save even the most complex, finicky websites in at least a few high-quality, long-term data formats.

SheetsInterview's answer:

I am a software engineer at heart and was always wondering why the interview process in other industries was not testing hard skills like we do in software engineering. Google Sheets and Excel are used in almost any business, but skills are never properly accessed.

ArchiveBox's answer

ArchiveBox differentiates itself from similar self-hosted projects by providing both a comprehensive CLI interface for managing your archive, a Web UI that can be used either independently or together with the CLI, and a simple on-disk data format that can be used without either.

ArchiveBox is neither the highest fidelity nor the simplest tool available for self-hosted archiving, rather it's a jack-of-all-trades that tries to do most things well by default. It can be as simple or advanced as you want, and is designed to do everything out-of-the-box but be tuned to suit your needs.

If you want better fidelity for very complex interactive pages with heavy JS/streams/API requests, check out ArchiveWeb.page and ReplayWeb.page.

If you want more bookmark categorization and note-taking features, check out Archivy, Memex, Polar, or LinkAce.

If you need more advanced recursive spider/crawling ability beyond --depth=1, check out Browsertrix, Photon, or Scrapy and pipe the outputted URLs into ArchiveBox.

SheetsInterview's answer:

It is a cheap and great alternative if you look for high-quality spread sheet interview tasks.

ArchiveBox's answer

• journalists
• lawyers
• librarians
• digital preservation specialists
• researchers
• students
• homelab / self-hosting community

SheetsInterview's answer:

Our primary audience is HR and recruitment professionals that want to speed up their process of evaluating Excel/Google Sheet skills. Currently, the process is mostly sending out an Excel sheet to the candidate, receiving it back (hopefully), evaluating it, and communicating with the candidate. SheetsInterview automates a lot of this process.

SheetsInterview's answer:

It's the first interviewing platform that solely focuses on interviewing hard spreadsheet skills, either Excel or Google Sheets. With the web-based spread sheet playground candidates can solve tasks directly in their browser.