archive.today
archive.today (or archive.is) is a web archiving site, founded in 2012, that saves snapshots on demand, and has support for JavaScript-heavy sites such as Google Maps and progressive web apps such as Twitter.[4] archive.today records two snapshots: one replicates the original webpage including any functional live links; the other is a screenshot of the page.[5]
Screenshot of the archive.today home page | |
Type of site | Web archiving |
|---|---|
| Available in | Multilingual |
| URL |
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| Registration | No |
| Launched | May 16, 2012[2][3] |
Features
Functionality
archive.today can capture individual pages in response to explicit user requests.[6][7][8] Since its beginning, archive.today has supported crawling pages with URLs containing the now-deprecated hash-bang fragment (#!).[9]
archive.today records only text and images, excluding XML, RTF, spreadsheet (xls or ods) and other non-static content. However, videos for certain sites, like Twitter, are saved.[10] It keeps track of the history of snapshots saved, requesting confirmation before adding a new snapshot of an already saved page.[11][12]
Pages are captured at a browser width of 1,024 pixels. CSS is converted to inline CSS, removing responsive web design and selectors such as :hover and :active. Content generated using JavaScript during the crawling process appears in a frozen state.[13]HTML class names are preserved inside the old-class attribute. When text is selected, a JavaScript applet generates a URL fragment seen in the browser's address bar that automatically highlights that portion of the text when visited again.
Web pages cannot be duplicated from archive.today to web.archive.org as second-level backup, as archive.today places an exclusion for Wayback Machine and does not save its snapshots in WARC format. The reverse—from web.archive.org to archive.today—is possible,[14] but the copy usually takes more time than a direct capture. Some web sites get deleted from Internet Archive's listings retroactively or blocked from being saved due to their robots.txt file, but archive.today does not use this.[8]
The research toolbar enables advanced keywords operators, using * as the wildcard character. A couple of quotation marks address the search to an exact sequence of keywords present in the title or in the body of the webpage, whereas the insite operator restricts it to a specific Internet domain.[15]
Once a web page is archived, it cannot be deleted directly by any Internet user.[16] Removing advertisements, popups or expanding links from archived pages is possible by asking the owner to do it on his blog.[17]
While saving a dynamic list, archive.today searchbox shows only a result that links the previous and the following section of the list (e.g. 20 links for page).[18] The other web pages saved are filtered, and sometimes may be found by one of their occurrences.[19][clarification needed]
The search feature is backed by Google CustomSearch. If it delivers no results, archive.today attempts to utilize Yandex Search.[20]
While saving a page, a list of URLs for individual page elements and their content sizes, HTTP statuses and MIME types is shown. This list can only be viewed during the crawling process.
One can download archived pages as a ZIP file, except pages archived since 29 November 2019,[update] when archive.today changed their browser engine from PhantomJS to Chromium.[21]
Since July 2013[update], archive.today supports the API of the Memento Project.[22][23]
History
archive.today was founded in 2012. The site originally branded itself as archive.today, but in May 2015, changed the primary mirror to archive.is.[24]
In January 2019, it began to deprecate the archive.is domain in favor of the archive.today mirror.[25]
Worldwide availability
Australia
In March 2019, the site was blocked for six months by several Australian internet providers in the aftermath of the Christchurch mosque shootings in an attempt to limit distribution of the footage of the attack.[26][27] It has since been unblocked.
China
According to GreatFire.org, archive.today has been blocked in China since March 2016,[update][28] archive.li since September 2017,[update][29] archive.fo since July 2018,[update][30] as well as archive.ph since December 2019.[update][31]
Finland
On 21 July 2015, the operators blocked access to the service from all Finnish IP addresses, stating on Twitter that they did this in order to avoid escalating a dispute they allegedly had with the Finnish government.[32] It has since been unblocked.
Russia
In Russia, only HTTP access is possible; HTTPS connections are blocked.[33][34]
Cloudflare DNS availability
There was a period when Cloudflare's 1.1.1.1 DNS service would not resolve the organizations web addresses, making it inaccessible to users of the Cloudflare DNS service. The two organizations pointed fingers at each other over who was responsible for the issue, but it was subsequently resolved.
As of May 2018[update], it was not been possible to reach the site when using Cloudflare.[35] The site is available again when using Cloudflare's DNS since May 2022[update].[36]
Cloudflare staff stated that the problem was on archive.today's DNS infrastucture, as its authoritative nameservers return invalid records when queried Cloudflare's network systems made requests to archive.today.
archive.today's countered the issue is due to Cloudflare requests not being compliant with DNS standards, as Cloudflare does not send EDNS Client Subnet information in its DNS requests.[37][38]
See also
References
- ^ @archiveis (30 October 2019). "a current list of all tor domains and clear net domains" (Tweet) – via Twitter.
- ^ Archive.is blog—When did the Archive-is site originally launch? at archive.today (archived 20 March 2021)
- ^ Archive.is — Викиреальность at archive.today (archived 29 April 2021)
- ^ Brinkmann, Martin (22 April 2015). "Create publicly available web page archives with Archive.is". Ghacks. from the original on 12 April 2019. Retrieved 13 June 2015.
- ^ Brunelle, Justin F.; Kelly, Mat; Weigle, Michele C.; Nelson, Michael L. (25 January 2015). "The impact of JavaScript on archivability" (PDF). International Journal on Digital Libraries. 17 (2): 95–117. doi:10.1007/s00799-015-0140-8. S2CID 8433375. (PDF) from the original on 27 May 2019.
- ^ Dascalescu, Dan (18 February 2013). . Wiki.dandascalescu.com. Archived from the original on 22 September 2013. Retrieved 3 October 2013.
- ^ Koebler, Jason (29 October 2014). "Dear GamerGate: Please Stop Stealing Our Shit". Motherboard. Archived from the original on 27 May 2019. Retrieved 22 March 2017.
There is no way for a website to protect itself from having an Archive.today user mirror the site.
- ^ a b "Archive.today FAQ". archive.today. Retrieved 15 February 2019.
- ^ . Archived from the original on 12 January 2013.
- ^ "Archive.today blog". from the original on 7 September 2021.
- ^ Archiving Websites with the Archive.is, retrieved 27 January 2022
- ^ "Example snapshot history on archive.is".
- ^ JavaScript-generated loading animation of Dailymotion video appearing in a frozen state
- ^ "Example: Page saved from Web Archive to Archive.is" (in Spanish). Archived from the original on 20 May 2013. Retrieved 23 October 2019.
- ^ For example, the string insite: https://en.wikipedia.org "World Cup" returns the "World+Cup"/ related snapshots
- ^ "Some Frequently Asked Question" (blog). archive.is. 24 January 2013. from the original on 26 September 2013. Retrieved 12 November 2018.
- ^ "Example user request on the Archive.is blog". Archive.is blog. Retrieved 7 April 2022.
- ^ "Example of dynamic list". WorldCat.org.
- ^ Archiving Websites with the Archive.is, retrieved 27 January 2022
- ^ "Just realized that I can search for keywords in the search bar for archive today, was this a recently added feature?". Archive.is blog. Retrieved 27 January 2022.
- ^ "Archive.is blog". 17 July 2020. from the original on 3 October 2020.
- ^ Nelson, Michael L. (9 July 2013). "Archive.is Supports Memento". Research and Teaching Updates. Web Science and Digital Libraries Research Group at Old Dominion University. from the original on 27 July 2013. Retrieved 17 September 2013.
- ^ . Memento Protocol Information. Memento Development Group. Archived from the original on 15 September 2013. Retrieved 17 September 2013.
- ^ "Why did you change the URL back from archive-today to archive-is?". Archive.is Blog. 3 May 2015. Archived from the original on 1 June 2015. Retrieved 6 January 2019.
- ^ @archiveis (4 January 2019). "Please do not use archive.IS mirror for linking, use others mirrors [.TODAY .FO .LI .VN .MD .PH]. .IS might stop working soon" (Tweet). from the original on 6 January 2019 – via Twitter.
- ^ "ISPs in AU and NZ start censoring the internet without legal precedent". Private Internet Access. 19 March 2019. Retrieved 20 March 2019.
- ^ "New Zealand ISPs Say They're Blocking Sites That Fail To Remove Christchurch Shooting Video". Gizmodo Australia. 19 March 2019. from the original on 18 May 2019. Retrieved 20 March 2019.
- ^ "archive.is is 100% blocked in China". GreatFire Analyzer. 12 August 2018. Archived from the original on 12 August 2018.
- ^ "archive.li is 100% blocked in China". Great Fire Analyzer. 12 August 2018. Archived from the original on 12 August 2018.
- ^ "archive.fo is 100% blocked in China". Great Fire Analyzer. 12 August 2018. Archived from the original on 12 August 2018.
- ^ "archive.ph is 100% blocked in China". en.greatfire.org. Retrieved 7 April 2022.
- ^ Lapintie, Lassi (22 July 2015). "Suomalaisilta estettiin haktivistien suosimalla verkkosivulla käynti" [Finns' access to website used by hacktivists blocked]. Iltalehti (in Finnish). from the original on 27 May 2019. Retrieved 4 March 2016.
- ^ Elistratov, Vladimir (29 January 2016). "Roskomnadzor zablokiroval servis archive.is, khranyashchiy kopii veb-saytov" Роскомнадзор заблокировал сервис archive.is, хранящий копии веб-сайтов. TJournal (in Russian). from the original on 30 August 2017. Retrieved 30 January 2016.
- ^ Cushing, Tim (4 February 2016). "Russia Blocks Another Archive Site Because It Might Contain Old Pages About Drugs". Techdirt. from the original on 23 March 2019. Retrieved 26 February 2016.
- ^ "Archive.is – Error 1001". Cloudflare Community. 15 May 2018. Retrieved 2 December 2021.
- ^ "Archive.today works again on 1.1.1.1 (and archive.{ph,is,li,vn,fo,md})". Cloudflare Community. 22 May 2022. Retrieved 12 March 2023.
- ^ @archiveis (16 July 2018). ""Having to do" is not so direct here. Absence of EDNS and massive mismatch (not only on AS/Country, but even on the continent level) of where DNS and related HTTP requests come from causes so many troubles so I consider EDNS-less requests from Cloudflare as invalid" (Tweet) – via Twitter.
- ^ "Comment by Matthew Prince on Hacker News". Hacker News. 4 May 2019. Archived from the original on 13 May 2022. Retrieved 4 October 2021.