very basic README

[matkoniecz]

based on https://www.gwern.net/Archiving-URLs

If that is intended as source-available or as backup then please ignore this PR.

But I am right now looking for such tool and while https://www.gwern.net/Archiving-URLs is magnificent: this repository seems to not have info how this can be used.

Also, sorry if I misinterpreted

the Python package archivenow does something similar & as of January 2021 is probably better.

[matkoniecz]

BTW, this article mentions

It was to fix these problems that I began working on archiver—which would run constantly archiving URLs in the background, archive them into the IA as well, and be smarter about media file downloads. It has been much more satisfactory.

is it published in this repo and

Background daemon which archives a list of URLs to the Internet Archive, archive.is, and other services

description is simply outdated? Or is local backup part of "other services"?

[gwern]

Hm, I'm not sure about that. archivenow no longer seems well maintained despite a promising beginning; it hasn't had any patches in 2 years despite a lot of open issues, so recommending it is a bit of a pan/fire situation.

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'local backup' is other services - whatever you specify the shell command.