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isoos on Dec 10, 2015 | parent | context | favorite | on: Link rot and redirect madness

I've recently started to consider tools like wkhtmltopdf [1] to easily dump a website I'd like to link to. Then I'd include both the original link and the pdf version on the blog page, in order to keep the linked structure and the archived version at the same spot.

I haven't done it yet, but would be interested in other's experiences. It would be interesting to have a crawler that does it automatically for each new post.

[1] http://wkhtmltopdf.org/

dangrossman on Dec 10, 2015 | [–]

This would be problematic legally, even when what you're linking to offers a permissive license of some sort.

mirimir on Dec 10, 2015 | [–]

I tend to keep local PDFs of everything that seems crucial. But linking to them seems ethically questionable. But maybe as a last resort, with an explanatory comment.

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