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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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[ 6.0 ms ] story [ 60.7 ms ] threadI 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.
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.
What's the catch?
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.
It is basically a site which downloads YouTube movies.
For Youtube I can recommend keepvid.com
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.
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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.
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.
And I'm a web developer.
And I'm a web developer.
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.