From 71b4097f3fd8a22686c982c1df2792f5520ce1eb Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Nick Sweeting Date: Tue, 26 Feb 2019 22:00:11 -0500 Subject: [PATCH] Updated Usage (markdown) --- Usage.md | 4 +++- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/Usage.md b/Usage.md index dd08764..f28bdfa 100644 --- a/Usage.md +++ b/Usage.md @@ -23,7 +23,7 @@ cat urls_to_archive.txt | ./archive ``` You can also pipe in RSS, XML, Netscape, or any of the other supported import formats via stdin. -## Import a list of links exported from browser or another service +## Import list of links exported from browser or another service ```bash ./archive ~/Downloads/browser_bookmarks_export.html @@ -33,6 +33,8 @@ You can also pipe in RSS, XML, Netscape, or any of the other supported import fo ./archive ~/Downloads/other_links.txt ``` +Passing a file as an argument here does not archive the file, it parses it as a list of URLs and archives the links *inside of it*, so only use it for *lists of links* to archive, not HTML files or other content you want added directy to the archive. + ## Import list of URLs from a remote RSS feed or file ArchiveBox will download the URL to a local file in `output/sources/` and attempt to autodetect the format and import any URLs found. Currently, Netscape HTML, JSON, RSS, and plain text links lists are supported.