# DO-SAY-GO/tdf

🌱 TDF - Tree Document Format - a universal file format for web collections

Repository: https://github.com/DO-SAY-GO/tdf
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/tdf
Homepage: https://trees.dosaygo.com
Language: JavaScript
License: NOASSERTION
License Family: other
Topics: archive, web-archive, archiver, internet, web-browsing, disk, dn, memex, search-engine, diskernet, download-net, tdf
Last push: 2026-08-09T11:12:16+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 66/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-02T17:46:02.011165+00:00)
- activity 96, release rhythm 8, longevity 100
- inputs: {"age_days": 2448, "days_push": 24, "days_rel": 480, "gap_med": null, "n_releases_24m": 1}
- flags: no_license
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 3908, forks 146 (observed 2026-08-28T04:08:28.814853+00:00)

## What it is
TDF (Tree Document Format) is a pair of native desktop apps for capturing live web browsing sessions into portable, offline-replayable .tdf archives (compressed, optionally encrypted SQLite databases). Tree Grower (paid, closed-source) captures pages via WebDriver BiDi/CDP, while the free Tree Player replays them byte-for-byte without a proxy or network.

## Use cases
- archive web pages for offline reading
- preserve websites before they disappear or change
- create portable snapshots of browsing sessions
- share web research collections as a single file
- replay captured websites byte-for-byte offline
- build a personal memex of the web
- combat link rot in saved bookmarks

## When to choose
- you need deterministic, byte-for-byte offline replay of dynamic web pages
- you want one portable archive file per web collection instead of scattered screenshots or links
- you need multi-browser capture (Chrome, Firefox, Chromium) rather than Chrome-only tooling
- you want optional AES-256-GCM encryption of archived collections

## When to avoid
- you need open-source software you can audit or modify - the TDF apps are proprietary and closed-source
- you need free capture tooling - only the Player is free; creating archives requires a paid license
- you need Safari support - it is not yet available
- you want a server-side or headless bulk-crawling pipeline rather than interactive browser capture

## Facets
- artifact type: application
- maturity: active
- function: web-scraping, search-engine, compression, file-system, gui
- domain: web-development, files, developer-tools, privacy
- platform: windows, cross-platform
- tags: web-archive, offline-replay, browser-capture, memex, digital-preservation, sqlite-archive, link-rot, proprietary, search, macos, linux, desktop

## Member repositories
- DO-SAY-GO/tdf (main) score 66

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:08:28.814853+00:00.
- Health v2: computed from the inputs above; adoption is never an input.
- Inferred fields (summary, facets, guidance): AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, on 2026-08-29T18:25:05.967083+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/DO-SAY-GO/tdf (fetched 2026-08-28T04:08:28.814853+00:00, sha 270590e2ff29)
  - homepage: https://trees.dosaygo.com (fetched 2026-08-29T09:19:23.467889+00:00, sha 1e2a65b690df)
  - site_page: https://trees.dosaygo.com/downloads.html (fetched 2026-08-29T09:19:23.479401+00:00, sha adcee0e2e9a7)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.