Google Summer of Code 2017 — Report

Rakesh Naga Chinta
Aug 26, 2017 · 4 min read

Project: Internet Archive Basic Features on Chrome, Safari Extensions

Organisation: Internet Archive

Program: Google Summer Of Code 2017

Mentor: Mark Graham, Director of the Wayback Machine, Internet Archive

Before diving in I would like thanks my mentor Mark Graham in supporting me and guiding me to the right direction.

And for the upcoming students applying for GSoC — Internet Archive. Don’t wait just start contributing. Working with Internet Archive is highly collaborative!


Purpose and Project Description:

GSOC-Project-Internet-Archive

I worked on several basic features for the base of the various browser extensions, they include :

The project goals :

  • Support for social sharing, including Twitter and Facebook, LinkedIn, Google plus.
  • Integration with the Wayback Machine’s Site Search.
  • Provide user with visual feedback based on if we have archived a URL or not.
  • Provide user with a one-click Summary view of a given site (Alexa statistics, Whois statistics)
  • Automatically archive URLs that are not in the Wayback Machine
  • Quick access to an overview of all the Archives for a specific URL

1.Tweets feature:

2.Social sharing buttons:

3.Integration with Wayback Machine’s Site search:

4.Alexa Statistics and Whois Statistics:

5.Automatic Archiving of URL’s:

Modes:

Mode1: Displays “CHECKING”, which indicates that the current URL is being checked whether if it was already archived in the wayback-machine, it then proceeds to the next steps

Mode2: shows a green signal stating “YES” if the webpage is already archived in the wayback machine.

Mode3: shows “NO”, meaning the current webpage is not archived in the wayback machine.

Mode4: If “NO”, then “SAVING” is shown indicating that the webpage is currently being archived and we get a final message of “YES”

Learning and Challenges

Other Feature which were not merged due to being not required/unnecessary.

  1. Related Website Feature
  2. Quick Overview of current URL’s statistics
  3. Support Button
  4. Internet Archive Integrated SearchBar.
  5. Quick Calender View

License

Credits

  • Mark Graham, @markjohngraham
  • Benjamin Mandel
  • Kumar Yoges
  • Anton, @
  • Abhidhas, @abhidas17695
  • Rakesh N Chinta, @rakesh-chinta

Other resources:

Github Repo: https://github.com/rakesh-chinta/GSOC-Project-Internet-Archive

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Rakesh Naga Chinta

Written by

UMICH 2020, Strategic MGMT Harvard, CEO Nag Group, Google Summer 17, Stanford SVIA

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