Unfortunately our image is ~450MB right now because we have install both Python and JS, Chrome, fonts, vido codecs, and a bunch of other software for all the extractors.

Most of it is from this killer 266MB line, but unfortunately we need all these things:

    apt-get update -qq && \
    apt-get install -qq -y --no-install-recommends \
        wget curl chromium git ffmpeg youtube-dl \
        fontconfig fonts-ipafont-gothic fonts-wqy-zenhei fonts-thai-tlwg fonts-kacst fonts-symbola fonts-noto fonts-freefont-ttf && \  
    rm -rf /var/lib/apt/lists/*

https://hub.docker.com/layers/nikisweeting/archivebox/latest...

Any 10MB here or there will help, whether it's from Chrome core or something else. If you have any suggestions I'm all ears!

Yeah the fonts take alot. Why do you need to slim the images down? Do you really need the fonts present to archive the content, I thought you were saving the HTML, wouldn't these fonts just be needed to render?

The fonts are for PDF and screenshot rendering.

Have you considered doing the install at usage time? If you're trying to save on bandwidth of downloaded images....

Doesn't help, they're used almost immediately.

Maybe give this a try: https://github.com/docker-slim/docker-slim