Hi,
I recently built a small prototype called Wayback Change Explorer while exploring ways to compare archived webpages beyond traditional text-level diffs.
The prototype focuses on structural comparison by extracting page headings and hierarchy to identify added or removed sections between snapshots.
At the moment, the project is scoped specifically to Wikipedia pages, since their relatively consistent structure allows reliable section extraction. I see this as an initial experiment, with broader webpage support potentially requiring more flexible parsing approaches.
After reading through wayback-diff, I noticed some conceptual overlap around capture comparison and visualization, although this prototype approaches the problem from a structure-focused perspective rather than content diff rendering.
I was curious whether this aligns with any ongoing work around Wayback comparison tooling, or whether there is an appropriate place within the ecosystem to discuss or explore this type of contribution.
Prototype: https://wayback-change-explorer.vercel.app/
Repository: https://github.com/NishilHoogar/wayback-change-explorer
Appreciate any thoughts or guidance.
Hi,
I recently built a small prototype called Wayback Change Explorer while exploring ways to compare archived webpages beyond traditional text-level diffs.
The prototype focuses on structural comparison by extracting page headings and hierarchy to identify added or removed sections between snapshots.
At the moment, the project is scoped specifically to Wikipedia pages, since their relatively consistent structure allows reliable section extraction. I see this as an initial experiment, with broader webpage support potentially requiring more flexible parsing approaches.
After reading through wayback-diff, I noticed some conceptual overlap around capture comparison and visualization, although this prototype approaches the problem from a structure-focused perspective rather than content diff rendering.
I was curious whether this aligns with any ongoing work around Wayback comparison tooling, or whether there is an appropriate place within the ecosystem to discuss or explore this type of contribution.
Prototype: https://wayback-change-explorer.vercel.app/
Repository: https://github.com/NishilHoogar/wayback-change-explorer
Appreciate any thoughts or guidance.