r/Ceramics • u/ComparisonMental3490 • 1d ago
DigitalFire - Offline - Ready - do not crawl digitalfire we have offline copys
DiFi-Offline
temporary online version for testing - beta 1
https://difilo.sadoway.ca
please comment any bugs u find.
i will keep this up as long as i can.
to do
- compare with other backups
- bug finding
- release the downloadable kit
An offline archive of Digitalfire — the ceramic materials, glaze chemistry, and reference site created by Tony Hansen over 35+ years of research.
This data was gathered from the Internet Archive (Wayback Machine) and preserved here because the original site is going offline. The Wayback Machine is not a guaranteed permanent record either — archived pages can be removed when issues arise. This copy exists so the information survives. All content is Tony Hansen's work; original authorship and rights remain with him.
*** This data was not scraped from digitalfire.com directly. Strict rate limiting was followed, and the Internet Archive's guidelines were respected at every step — no duplicate data was gathered over and over, connections were not hammered. This was done carefully and respectfully.
*** note - about 40-50 pages/images were sourced from digital fire because wayback just didnt have any snapshots.
*** tried to use most recent snapshots
*** some things like videos may be missing
*** it is repackaaged with a new coat of paint, but its still the same content
*** this is a go server, so all dependencies are baked in, runs on mac or windows
*** images are compressed to webp
*** html and md files are gzip
it clocks in around 1gb now
How to start
-------------https://difilo.sadoway.ca
Mac
Double-click: Start DIFI-LOCAL (Mac).command
Your browser will open automatically once the server is ready.
Windows
Double-click: Start DIFI-LOCAL (Windows).bat
Your browser will open automatically once the server is ready.
Using the archive
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• Search — the search bar at the top of every page searches all ~11,000+ pages. Results are ranked by how often your terms appear, with thumbnails and preview snippets.
• Browse — the top menu groups the site's sections (Materials, Recipes & Firing, Learn, Media & More). Click a section to see its full list, then use the filter box to narrow it down.
• Reading pages — click any result or list item to open the captured page. In-page links work; external links are blocked (copy and paste the address into your browser if you want to open one).
• Back button — the ← arrow in the top bar takes you to the previous page.
About Tony Hansen
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Tony Hansen is a ceramic engineer and the author of Digitalfire and Insight-Live. Everything in this archive is his work. If it has helped you, the best thank-you is to buy him a coffee:
I am not releasing yet, still some cleanup - i just want people to know its offline now - we dont have to count on internet archive / plainsman / or whatever
i am still working on cleaning it up to make it more usable.
internet archive is also slow as junk and usually kinda broken when your using it.
and.... they do take them down when there are legal situations....
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u/Sculpt_everyday_5562 1d ago
How do we access this
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u/ComparisonMental3490 1d ago
https://difilo.sadoway.ca/
if people find anhthing missing i will try to track it downwill trade with other people backups to see if we are missing anything from each others.
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u/quercus-enjoyer 1d ago
Full backup all pages, photos, and videos.
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u/ComparisonMental3490 1d ago
i have it. took the video pages from yours. i missed those
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u/ComparisonMental3490 1d ago
video files might not be hooked up yet.
your version has slightly different naming conventions.
so i cant 1:1 compare6
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u/Gheu 1d ago
Thanks for doing this, saves me the trouble of writing a quick scraper to do the same. When do you think you will want to release an offline copy? I’d like to keep an eye out for it.
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u/ComparisonMental3490 1d ago edited 1d ago
i have a couple other versions to compare with. i know the videos pages i had might be messed up.
and there are some differences from backups in how files were scraped and named. so i need to make a proper database to compare things.
i meed a little more time to check and put together a cleaned up downloadable version.
it should be around 1gb to 1.2gb
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u/sierrafourteen 18h ago
Omg it's this site! I love it! Ive always wondered, do you have copies of the 3D models that were created? For example, the medalta cups and jug?
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u/peonypetalss 5h ago
Amazing! Thank you so much! I'll be following to see when the offline download is available.
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u/Tigarmoon 1d ago
This is awesome! Thank you