[GH-ISSUE #1111] Feature Request: Add support for sending custom request headers across all archiving methods #2209

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opened 2026-03-01 17:57:17 +03:00 by kerem · 1 comment

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Originally created by @hykilpikonna on GitHub (Mar 1, 2023).
Original GitHub issue: https://github.com/ArchiveBox/ArchiveBox/issues/1111

The page I want to archive uses automatic language detection / i18n, and I want to archive in a language other than English. One way to achieve this is to add a custom accept-language request header. Is there an option to easily configure request headers for each archive?

Originally created by @hykilpikonna on GitHub (Mar 1, 2023). Original GitHub issue: https://github.com/ArchiveBox/ArchiveBox/issues/1111 The page I want to archive uses automatic language detection / i18n, and I want to archive in a language other than English. One way to achieve this is to add a custom `accept-language` request header. Is there an option to easily configure request headers for each archive?

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@pirate commented on GitHub (Mar 2, 2023):

There is not a universal setting to add headers for all methods, but you can add them individually using each extractor's <extractorname>_ARGS='["--some-headers-here...", "--some-other-args=..."]' config settings.

For example to set the header for curl you'd use CURL_ARGS https://github.com/ArchiveBox/ArchiveBox/wiki/Configuration#curl_args:

archivebox config --set CURL_ARGS='["--tlsv1.3","--http2", "--header", "accept-language: en-us en"]'

Adding support for custom headers for every extractor at once would be cool, but I'm not sure if we'll get around to adding that anytime soon.

@pirate commented on GitHub (Mar 2, 2023): There is not a universal setting to add headers for all methods, but you can add them individually using each extractor's `<extractorname>_ARGS='["--some-headers-here...", "--some-other-args=..."]'` config settings. For example to set the header for curl you'd use `CURL_ARGS` https://github.com/ArchiveBox/ArchiveBox/wiki/Configuration#curl_args: ```bash archivebox config --set CURL_ARGS='["--tlsv1.3","--http2", "--header", "accept-language: en-us en"]' ``` Adding support for custom headers for every extractor at once would be cool, but I'm not sure if we'll get around to adding that anytime soon.

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