abx-dl

name	abx-dl
description	Use this when working on the standalone ArchiveBox downloader CLI, extractor orchestration, plugin execution, config, and output verification.

abx-dl

Purpose

abx-dl runs ArchiveBox plugin hooks against URLs without a full ArchiveBox collection.

Shared Rules

• Keep this repo on branch main.
• Use uv and uv run for Python commands.
• Do not use system python, direct .venv/bin/python, or pip commands.
• Use real CLI commands, real hooks, real installs, real subprocesses, real files, and real URLs or pytest-httpserver.
• Do not mock, monkeypatch, fake, simulate, skip, xfail, or weaken tests.
• Verify index.jsonl, hook statuses, output files, config, and filesystem side effects.
• Read README.md for the full CLI, config, plugin, and release surface.

Development Setup

uv sync
uv run abx-dl --help
uv run abx-dl plugins wget

User-Facing Setup

uvx abx-dl dl --plugins=title,wget 'https://example.com'

Basic Usage

uv run abx-dl dl --plugins=title,wget --dir ./downloads 'https://example.com'

uv run abx-dl dl --plugins=title,wget,screenshot,pdf 'https://example.com'
uv run abx-dl dl --output=html,json,txt,pdf,image 'https://example.com'
uv run abx-dl install wget ytdlp chrome
uv run abx-dl config --get TIMEOUT

Verification

uv run pytest tests/test_cli.py -q
uv run prek run --all-files

For live extractor checks:

repo="$(pwd)"
cd "$(mktemp -d)"
exec >stdout.log
uv run --project "$repo" abx-dl dl --plugins=title,wget 'https://example.com'
find . -maxdepth 3 -type f | sort