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Can you configure this tool to login to websites (for paid news subscriptions) and get past those paywalls?

Yeah, it supports it but there are security considerations if you're doing it for anything more serious than news content. See here: https://github.com/ArchiveBox/ArchiveBox/wiki/Security-Overv...

Thanks, much appreciated. This is a very informative set of things to watch out for that I wouldn't have thought of otherwise.

Make sure you read through this section as well to fully understand the security concerns:

https://github.com/ArchiveBox/ArchiveBox#caveats

That is the default for the screenshot, pdf and one of the html archives: they use your chrome cookies.

Likely not without some modification, but you could try this:

https://www.jacoduplessis.co.za/bypass-paywall/

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