Offliberty – Evidence of offline life

http://offliberty.com/

by signaler • 12 years ago

22 27 12 years ago

offliberty.com

radubogdan• 12 years ago

And simple interface waiting for improvement [here](https://github.com/radubogdan/node-offliberty)

runn1ng3• 12 years ago

OK, I don't get it, at all.

I have tried to paste random URLs and they all return "Offliberating this URL is not possible yet."

What is this for? Am I missing something?

edit: Now I pasted this link

http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/even-as-marijuana-gai...

and it returned links to two random PDFs from the article.

I still have no idea what is this for. I guess it's not for me...?

edit2: Oh, now I got it. It's for ripping videos from youtube. I guess.

bshimmin• 12 years ago

It seems to let you download MP4s from YouTube moderately easily (I determined this from the node-offliberty package, in the comments below). Beyond that, I have no idea. I think this could be a candidate for the worst explained and executed web site to hit the frontpage of HN in a good while.

runn1ng3• 12 years ago

Yeah, I found that out too, by googling the name of the website.

It probably works for ripping videos from other websites, too.

I have no idea why is this at the frontpage.

edit: yep, it works for ripping the videos from wapost too.

pasting

http://www.washingtonpost.com/posttv/national/shiite-turkmen...

links to the URL of the mp4 file. Well, I guess it's kinda useful.

thegeomaster• 12 years ago

I've tried three different URLs and none of them seems to work.

What's the catch?

swatkat• 12 years ago

Well, strange website! It seems to work only with YouTube or Dailymotion (and similar media sites)?? It gave me links to mp3 and mp4 files.

wallzz2• 12 years ago

I tried it with facebook.com and it returned an MP3 file , that when I try to download it , it says file not found, the weirdest website ever .

wallzz2• 12 years ago

I found this on their website , but still don't know how it works : Offliberty lets you access any online content without a permanent Internet connection. Today many websites offer nice content but most are difficult to browse offline. If you have limited access to the Internet you can use Offliberty to browse any content later - being offline.

If the Internet bus visits your village only once a week or your grandma doesn't let you use Internet more than 1 hour a day - Offliberty is for you.

Offliberty DOES NOT host and has NO RIGHTS to any content. You must agree with our Terms of Service and other sites usage rules before you take them offline. Sometimes browsing offline content requires permission from its author or owner. Remember to be sure that you have it. We ARE NOT taking any responsibility for Offliberty users activity.

p4bl0• 12 years ago

The idea is to let you download content that is normally streamed. I've been using this service for quite some time now. It will work with many websites such as YouTube or Soundcloud.

runn1ng3• 12 years ago

....pornhub doesn't work though. (Yes, I had to try, for science.)

michaelmcmillan• 12 years ago

I think most people misunderstand what this site does, totally understandable given the extremely vague impression it gives off.

It is basically a site which downloads YouTube movies.

Synaesthesia2• 12 years ago

Downloading tracks from Soundcloud and Mixcloud is what I use it for. I think it can also rip PDF's from Scribd but I'm not sure.

For Youtube I can recommend keepvid.com

techaddict0092• 12 years ago

No action by Google yet? They are using Adsense and it probably violates Adsense TOC!

norswap• 12 years ago

Pointing it at HN offers to download the pdfs from the frontpage.

Htsthbjig• 12 years ago

The authors of this site have "technical people" bias. Because the spent an inordinate amount of time thinking about their idea, project, whatever... THEY BELIEVE EVERYBODY DOES!!

I have no idea what this thing is , what it does and way worse than that, there is no info in the site for those that want to use it.

sfrechtling• 12 years ago

I found there was a visible link on the page that said "FIRST TIME HERE?! Better late than never - Read THIS", which takes you to http://offliberty.com/#about. The below content is what appeared.

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Offliberty lets you access any online content without a permanent Internet connection. Today many websites offer nice content but most are difficult to browse offline. If you have limited access to the Internet you can use Offliberty to browse any content later - being offline.

If the Internet bus visits your village only once a week or your grandma doesn't let you use Internet more than 1 hour a day - Offliberty is for you.

eric_bullington• 12 years ago

I read that and still had no idea what it was really meant to do, until I came here and read the comments.

And I'm a web developer.

Synaesthesia2• 12 years ago

For those wondering what it does, you can use Offliberty to download mixes from Soundcloud or Mixcloud.

frozenport• 12 years ago

There appear to be more angry comments than points.

mxxx• 12 years ago

it stopped working with soundcloud urls recently, maybe a month or two ago. good for ripping youtubes though.

return0• 12 years ago

Can be handy to download youtube videos, but the idea that it has something to do with liberty is ludicrous.

anupshinde• 12 years ago

Why isn't there a downvote button here?

techaddict0092• 12 years ago

The website has ugliest TOS page : http://offliberty.com/tos/

peterkelly• 12 years ago

An explanation on the site of what it actually does would be helpful.

barbs• 12 years ago

There's a link at the bottom, which links to http://offliberty.com/#about.

If the Internet bus visits your village only once a week or your grandma doesn't let you use Internet more than 1 hour a day - Offliberty is for you.

ritonlajoie• 12 years ago

I'm sorry I typed 'google' in the input bar... it gave me an error saying I should put a blahblah url. I have no clue what this thing is :)

poolpool• 12 years ago

Or just use youtube-dl

Offliberty – Evidence of offline life

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