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Chapter 3: How it works

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You feed it pages three ways: paste URLs, import a browser bookmarks export, or use discover, which takes a subject ("Chiikawa") and finds its official site, Wikipedia article, and real external links with zero API keys. The demo recording in the README is a real run: discover found and queued 63 genuine Chiikawa pages.

Everything lands in a local SQLite queue that a background job drains every ten minutes. Pages move from queued to submitted to archived, and a page is only marked dead after three failed confirmations spaced a day apart, because a throttled Archive is not a dead URL. If the Archive is busy, the queue waits and tries again until the capture is confirmed.

Terminal demo: internet-historian discover Chiikawa finds and queues 63 real pages