docker-archivebox

The official Docker image for ArchiveBox, the self-hosted internet archiving solution.

https://hub.docker.com/r/archivebox/archivebox

# using Docker:
docker pull archivebox/archivebox
docker run -v $PWD:/data -it archivebox/archivebox init --setup

# using Docker Compose
curl -fsSL 'https://github.com/ArchiveBox/ArchiveBox/raw/dev/docker-compose.yml' > docker-compose.yml
docker compose up

✅ Operating Systems Supported

Linux, macOS, Windows

Any OS where Docker or Docker Desktop is supported.

✅ CPU Architectures Supported

• amd64 all x86 64-bit Intel/AMD processors
• arm64 Raspberry Pi v4+, M1/M2/M3 or newer Macs, and other newer ARM-based systems (>= ARM v8)
• arm/v7 Raspberry Pi v1 - v3 and other 32-bit ARM-based systems (as of v0.7, but support will be phased out in the future)

❌ CPU Architectures NOT Supported

• i386 all x86 32-bit Intel/AMD processors
• arm/v6/arm/v5 or earlier pre-2006 32-bit ARM-based systems
• riscv64/riscv32 or other RISC-V-based systems
• ppc64le/ppc32 or other PowerPC-based systems
• s390x or other IBM zSystem-based systems

Tags available

It's recommended to use either :main (stable, all architectures) or :dev (beta/unstable).

• :latest (the default stable tag, 1:1 with :master, only built for amd64)
• :dev/:main/:<branchname> (tags for each git branch, built for amd64, arm64, arm/v7)
• sha-2c7be14/:sha-<commitid> (tags for each git commit, built for amd64, arm64, arm/v7)

For a full list of the published images: https://hub.docker.com/r/archivebox/archivebox/tags

Docker

mkdir ~/archivebox && cd ~/archivebox  # data folder can be anywhere
docker pull archivebox/archivebox
docker run -v $PWD:/data -it archivebox/archivebox init --setup

Usage

# docker run -v $PWD:/data -it archivebox/archivebox [subcommand] [...args]

docker run -v $PWD:/data -it archivebox/archivebox version
docker run -v $PWD:/data -it archivebox/archivebox init --setup
docker run -v $PWD:/data -it archivebox/archivebox add 'https://example.com'
docker run -v $PWD:/data -it -p 8000:8000 archivebox/archivebox server 0.0.0.0:8000

open http://127.0.0.1:8000

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Docker Compose

docker-compose.yml:

version: '3.9'

services:
    archivebox:
        image: 'archivebox/archivebox:dev'
        command: server --quick-init 0.0.0.0:8000
        ports:
            - 8000:8000
        environment:
            # add any ArchiveBox config options you want here
            - ALLOWED_HOSTS=*
            - MEDIA_MAX_SIZE=750m
        volumes:
            - ./data:/data

See a full setup here: https://github.com/ArchiveBox/ArchiveBox/blob/dev/docker-compose.yml

Usage

mkdir ~/archivebox && cd ~/archivebox
# create docker-compose.yml file in ~/archivebox
docker-compose pull
docker-compose up

# docker-compose run archivebox [subcommand] [...args]

docker-compose run archivebox version
docker-compose run archivebox setup --init
docker-compose run archivebox add --depth=1 'https://example.com'
...

To enable Sonic full-text search backend and other optional extras, see: https://github.com/ArchiveBox/ArchiveBox/blob/dev/docker-compose.yml#:~:text=sonic

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Kubernetes

(BETA: Advanced users only, ArchiveBox does not provide support for Kubernetes users)

./archivebox.yml contains an example Kubernetes manifest (with rook-ceph-rbd and metallb).

Use as-is, or edit to your needs, objects will be created in namespace: archivebox.

apiVersion: apps/v1
kind: Deployment
metadata:
  name: archivebox-deployment
spec:
  selector:
    matchLabels:
      app: archivebox
  replicas: 1
  template:
    metadata:
      labels:
        app: archivebox
    spec:
      containers:
        - name: archivebox
          args: ["server", "--quick-init", "0.0.0.0:8000"]
          image: archivebox/archivebox
          ports:
            - containerPort: 8000
              protocol: TCP
              name: http
          volumeMounts:
            - mountPath: /data
              name: archivebox
      restartPolicy: Always
      volumes:
        - name: archivebox
          persistentVolumeClaim:
            claimName: archivebox

# run this to apply the configuration
kubectl apply -f archivebox.yml

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Development

The image is built using docker: https://docs.docker.com/get-docker/ and hosted on Docker Hub & Github Packages: https://hub.docker.com/r/archivebox.

https://hub.docker.com/r/archivebox/archivebox

The config file / package definition is here: ArchiveBox/Dockerfile.

To build this package, make sure you are in the ArchiveBox main repo first.

cd ArchiveBox/
git pull --recurse-submodules

# Build the docker image
./bin/build_docker.sh

# Push the image to Docker Hub & Github Packages
docker login
./bin/release_docker.sh 0.7.1 arm7 

Inspecting the image layers

docker image ls archivebox/archivebox

docker image inspect <image id>  # view image details
docker image history <image id>  # view image layer sizes

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Please note: The old image at nikisweeting/archivebox is deprecated, use archivebox/archivebox instead.