macho's sandbox: News archiver

The NewsArchiver module is for people who

• find that web news items they'd like to refer to have disappeared from the sites where they read them;
• are sometimes unable to find news items they once remember reading; or
• would like to be able to tag news items for future reference.

Features

• Downloads a copy of the content at the url, in case it disappears later.
• Allows tagging of archived items.
• Suggests tags from the content, based on the ones you've already entered.
• Reads data inside html, pdf, doc, jpg, and tiff files.
• Stores away the original document's url

Requirements

• date
• date_popup
• prepopulate
• taxonomy
• simplehtmldom

Known problems

• Alpha release.

Current maintainer

• Macho Philipovich

Recommended software

• pdftotext
• antiword
• pdftotext