Vandal is a browser extension that allows you to quickly navigate the web archive and go back in time without leaving your current tab. It provides a built-in browser with access to your navigation history, timestamp differences of page resources, etc.
That's really amazing. Sometimes I spend a few extra minutes going to the Wayback Machine and searching. Now I could use those minutes for something more useful!
Any plans for a Firefox plugin?
Hello everyone!
I am really excited to introduce you to Vandal!
I built Vandal over a period of more than 2 years in my spare time. It's a browser extension that allows you to instantly navigate the web archive and go back in time without switching or leaving your current tab.
🌟 The extension could be downloaded from the chrome web store and AMO
And it's open source: https://github.com/vegetableman/vandal
🌟 More details here: https://vegetableman.github.io/vandal
Some of the best features include:
Calendar | Graph Mode - Switch between two modes to access snapshots for a URL.
Navigator: Built-in browser with ◀️ ▶️ 🔄 actions.
Navigation Panel: Navigation buttons to zip through archived snapshots for a date or across the month.
History Panel: Access your navigation history for a website.
Resource Drawer: A drawer that you can toggle to view timestamp differences of resources such as images, scripts, etc. relative to the page.
It's been a while, so I don't recall as to why I built it 😅. But I distinctly remember benefiting from the Wayback Machine when it helped me find a missing speech from the Parliament of India's website. I was really impressed. One thing led to another and here we are. It's been a strange journey as I did succumb to over-engineering and the tool went through a couple of iterations. The current release is the final cut ✁ 🎉.
The process of building this tool brought me immense joy along with an exploration of my own capabilities. Even if Vandal doesn’t last in the chrome store/amo, I am hoping this tool serves its purpose in some form to the wonderful @internetarchive.
To support their incredible work, please go here.
I would greatly appreciate any feedback.
Thank you!
Threat Modeling e-book
Vandal
GitNoter
Vandal
Vandal