Any social bookmark archive service that can bookmark, archive and export (in the future) a webpage that is likely to disappear?

February 3, 2006 11:26 AM

Any social bookmark archive service that can bookmark, archive and export (in the future) a webpage that is likely to disappear?

I have been checking out some social websites that allow one to bookmark as well as archive in as a cached webpage for future reading .

In other words, I am looking for a bookmark archive service that will allow me to read a webpage even if the webpage is no longer hosted anywhere else.

IN ADDITION , the service can easily allow me to export the saved webpage to my hard drive in the future.

So far, only http://www.furl.net/faq.jsp#byeFurl seems to be the only that can do all these with relative ease. But it has its limitations because it cannot save some webpages with frames well.

I have checked out the following services and none of them comes close to what I want.

http://www.spurl.net/help/faq.php#data_safety

http://myweb2.search.yahoo.com/ ----- no export feature .


http://www.esnips.com/ from netsnippets.com ---- only 1 Gig free space. Does not look like it has export features.

http://hanzoweb.com/


http://www.clipmarks.com/

http://www.simpy.com/ ---- Exporting definitiely not as user friendly as http://www.furl.net/.


Does anybody know any service/invention/software that can allow me to bookmark and archive and export a saved webpage (in its entirety) with ease ?

Thank you very very much.

posted by studentguru to computers & internet (8 comments total)

I don't know if it can export yet, but you might like to look at ma.gnolia - currently in beta.
posted by djgh at 11:30 AM on February 3, 2006

I wrote a delicious clone (here) that does that very thing. You'll have to run it on a server you have access to though.
posted by LukeyBoy at 11:40 AM on February 3, 2006

Furl saves copies of the pages you bookmark and also lets you export a zip archive of your Furled documents.
posted by MsMolly at 12:06 PM on February 3, 2006

Oops, which I would have seen that you knew about if I had read through your post a little more closely.
posted by MsMolly at 12:07 PM on February 3, 2006

Maybe the Wayback Machine.
posted by polyglot at 6:14 PM on February 3, 2006

The Wayback machine screws up a lot of times.

I just print pages that I want to save to PDF. It's a snap if you have Mac OS X.
posted by drstein at 8:10 PM on February 3, 2006

Isn't this the second time we've had the exact same question?
posted by AmbroseChapel at 5:00 PM on February 4, 2006

AmbroseChapel ,

I know you are talking about http://ask.metafilter.com/mefi/31586 where I asked a similar question.

After asking that question and doing more research , I had a better idea what I want .

This post here is different from the other post because here for the first time I emphasize the ability of a service to allow me to export all the cached copies to a hard drive sometime in the future.

And I am glad LukeyBoy and drstein and many others giving me more ideas how to deal with this problem.

Thank you everyone.
posted by studentguru at 10:05 PM on February 4, 2006