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dweb-universal - Universal Access to All Knowledge - extending the Internet Archive

The Dweb Universal project's goal is to bring the Internet Archive's resources, to places where the Internet is poor - either slow, expensive or censored.

  • One core output is a set of tools called dweb-mirror (see below).
  • Another will be increased integration of the Decentralized Web tools (IPFS, GUN, WebTorrent, etc) into the Archive.
  • And the third is the integration of Internet Archive directly or via dweb-mirror into other people's platforms.

Its a public project, discussion, disagreement, suggestions and help are all welcome.

Overview

At this point we've built an offline server for Internet Archive content. dweb-mirror. It works, but has plenty of rough edges.

TODO THIS DIAGRAM IS SERIOUSLY OUT OF DATE An diagram with an overview of the architecture

Sub Projects

dweb-mirror - cloning and serving portions of the Internet Archive.

This is the first code "output" of the project, currently (Aug2018) an incomplete work in progress. It is intended to clone some subset of the Archive, and will then serve them in at least IPFS, WebTorrent and hopefully GUN and DAT.

Status

The current version can:

  • serve Archive content (collections, images, video, audio) stored locally
  • crawl a configurable set of Archive items to local storage
  • proxy, storing as it serves.

It currently (August 2019) runs on the:

  • Internet In A Box - running on a Raspberry Pi.
  • Rachel 3+ from WorldPossible
  • Raspberry Pi - starting from NOOBS.
  • MacOSX and Linux laptops

On IIAB it is part of the standard v7-big install, on the other platforms its installed by following relatively simple instructions.

Each has the full set of functionality - i.e. crawl/serve/proxy.

We are part way through porting to really tiny boxes like OrangePi running Armbian.

Coming soon:

  • Automated installation on each of these platforms (its a a simple, but not fully automated install currently)
  • Better support for videos/audio (cache while streaming) and adding text, and web types
  • More platforms

We are looking for test sites who want to use it.

See Also

The "Awesome List" of organizations and projects in the space.

Please see the following repos which together make up the Internet Archive's decentralized web project

  • dweb-transports: Provides a common API & resiliency to decentralized tools - IPFS, WEBTORRENT, GUN, YJS, and a fallback to HTTP.
  • dweb-objects: Class interface to support Lists, Key Value Tables, Authentication, Naming etc across tools
  • dweb-archive: The UI to dweb.archive.org, help make it more decentralized and more functional
  • dweb-serviceworker: Experimental (not really working well) addition of Service Workers
  • [dweb-transport](https://github.com/internetarchive/dweb-transport]: Catch all for other projects, especially (currently) has the WebTor]rent superseeder/tracker
  • dweb-mirror: Experimental tool for mirroring parts of the Archive
  • dweb-gateway: Python gateway, runs at the Archive, runs the super-peers, and modifies metadata
  • dweb-universal: Meta-project for "Universal" access. YOU ARE HERE