Updating webarchives

[mksBelper]

@pete31,

Some of this may turn out to be superseded by the fresh input from yourself and @chrillek on whether webarchives are - after all - the best solution for what I’m trying to do.

When I stayed with webarchives from EagleFiler, they seemed to be the best compromise.

I need to think about that and post here again as soon as I have decided whether webarchives have any advantages over bookmarks after all.

Abbreviated workflow from your post - and many thanks for your persistence!

@pete31

@mksBelper

So my workflow ought to be:…

1. run the DT ‘Check Links’ external script as I have been doing

No. Let’s do it step by step.

Somewhere in this thread you wrote that you want to update the webarchive’s content anyway because it might be out-of-date. So why do you need the “Check links” script? It only checks the URL, not the content of a webarchive.

Because:

1. I wasn’t fully aware of the relationship between ‘live’ URLs and what exactly webarchives contain
2. I (mis?) understood - from a couple of threads here - that there is now only one way to confirm (or otherwise) the accuracy of any web pages stored in any form(at) in DT - and that is the Check links script
3. this script appears to be deprecated, or superseded.

@mksBelper

@pete31

3. …your script [is] …the only way to create a new webarchive for the URL in question

No. As I wrote, I guess that DEVONthink will follow redirected URLs if you use Reload. You don’t have to do anything with any URL (anymore). Just use Reload. If what you see afterwards is fine then use Update Captured Archive.

So, instead, I’d simply see the ‘Invalid URL’ in the ‘Invalid URLs’ Group (of replicants) which the Check Links script creates - and reload it? (And then Update Captured Archive if it’s OK?)

@pete31

No. My script takes the URL that’s visible in the inspector and updates the webarchive’s internal URL (WebResourceURL). Probably best to completely forget the script. It’s (probably) not needed anymore.

It’s looking that way, isn’t it.

@pete31

PS Updating 10.000 webarchive manually is a lot of work.

It is. That’s what I’m aiming for as much automation as possible .

@pete31

Would you use a script that simply creates new webarchive?

Yes. But because it now appears necessary for me to rethink the question of webarchive vs Bookmark, I might find a script that converts webarchives to Bookmarks more useful - because it looks as though this doesn’t do what I thought it would.