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Archive Browser for Blogger blogs

Blogger archives have been difficult to browse through as they are large files with all the extra baggage in the blog. There are also too many of them (more so if you have weekly archives). Here's a tool which you can use to view an entire year's worth of archives in one page. It shows the post titles, a Technorati-like text-only preview (first few lines) of each post and the permanent link to the post. You can use it with anybody's blog, not just yours.

Other possible uses of this tool:
1. You could use it to backup an entire year's archives into a file. Just save the page generated by this tool using your browser.
2. You could use the integrated Google search facility to search your archives.

Go ahead and try it!

Complete Blog URL such as http://yourblog.blogspot.com
(NOT the atom feed URL):



Year to browse:

Complete archive path
(mention it ONLY if you changed the default, leave it empty otherwise):



(This might take a few seconds)

Many thanks to John and Greg of Freshblog for spreading the word to blogger community. Thanks to Thenkoodu and Thamizmanam for spreading the word to tamil bloggers.

Blog posts about this tool:

Browseable Archive Hack (Freshblog)

Archives de-mystified (My blog)

Hack para navegar en tu blog por ano (in Spanish)

Busquedas en blogs (in Spanish)

Archive Browser Showcase - Do not miss it! (in Indian language Tamil)

Stats: This tool has been used with 746 blogs so far (Current list).

Plug-in this tool to your blog

You could also plug-in this tool in your blog and encourage your visitors to browse your archives. To plug this in, add the following code to your Blogger template's sidebar and republish entire blog.
<!-- Archive Browser -->
<script language="Javascript" src="http://www.anniyalogam.com/scripts/browserbox.php?myblog=<$BlogURL$>"> </script> <!-- Archive Browser -->
You will see the following box which the visitors can use to browse your archives.

If you don't like the box above, you can fill in your blog's URL and tune this html code to blend in nicely with your blog's style. Also, you can remove the years for which you don't have any archives.

<p>
<form target="_blank"
action="http://www.anniyalogam.com/scripts/browser2.php" method=get>
<input type="hidden" name="blog" value="<your blog's url>">
<select name="year">
<option value="2001">2001
<option value="2002">2002
<option value="2003">2003
<option value="2004">2004
<option value="2005">2005
<option value="2006" selected>2006
</select>  
<input type="submit" value="Browse" align=middle /><br>
Powered by: <a href="http://www.anniyalogam.com">Anniyalogam</a>
</form>

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