From 146bc1f403b1ee84d8b4988b92a4e35f5ce0c67a Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Nick Sweeting Date: Wed, 3 Apr 2019 11:54:48 -0400 Subject: [PATCH] Updated Configuration (markdown) --- Configuration.md | 2 ++ 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+) diff --git a/Configuration.md b/Configuration.md index 786e8bc..be00943 100644 --- a/Configuration.md +++ b/Configuration.md @@ -269,6 +269,8 @@ Cookies file to pass to wget. To capture sites that require a user to be logged **Possible Values:** [`~/.config/google-chrome`]/`/tmp/chrome-profile`/... Path to a Chrome user profile directory. To capture sites that require a user to be logged in, you can specify a path to a chrome user profile (which loads the cookies needed for the user to be logged in). If you don't have an existing Chrome profile, create one with `chromium-browser --user-data-dir=/tmp/chrome-profile`, and log into the sites you need. Then set `CHROME_USER_DATA_DIR=/tmp/chrome-profile` to make ArchiveBox use that profile. +*Note: Make sure the path does not have `Default` at the end (it should the the parent folder of `Default`), e.g. set it to `CHROME_USER_DATA_DIR=~/.config/chromium` and not `CHROME_USER_DATA_DIR=~/.config/chromium/Default`.* + By default when set to `None`, ArchiveBox tries all the following User Data Dir paths in order: https://chromium.googlesource.com/chromium/src/+/HEAD/docs/user_data_dir.md