Show HN: Irchiver, your full-resolution personal web archive

The irchiver software is available for free, and it currently runs only on Windows 8.1 or higher with five popular web browsers: Chrome, Firefox, Edge, Brave, and Opera. MacOS is not supported, but may be possible with a browser extension that mirrors to a Windows computer; no development is planned for MacOS due to limited developer time and expertise, and the inherent challenges of finding techniques for cross-process window access that continue working long-term. Why would you want your browsing data stored on the cloud? irchiver saves your screenshots as webp files, and the text content in a plain text file, in a folder on your hard drive. Download. product when captured stored format reproduction platform irchiver continuous, automatic local image, text what you saw Windows, any browser archive.org occasional, automatic cloud webpage only public view web archive. Ph manually initiated cloud webpage only public view web ArchiveBox manually initiated local webpage only public view any desktop WebRecorder manually initiated local webpage what you scroll Chrome taking a screenshot manually initiated local image what you saw any desktop browser extensions manually initiated local varies varies varies browser "Save as PDF" manually initiated local pdf close to what you saw most browsers. Other products either require manually initiating a capture each time, or can only capture stateless publicly-accessible pages. Irchiver saves captures as images and plain text, as historically those formats have outlasted software code and cloud services.