Archive.is blog
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Can the archived pages be downloaded for local use on our computers? Will you be releasing the software that you use for archival?
Anonymous
1. In browser’s menu: File -> Save As -> Compele page.
Anyway, adding something like “download as .zip” can make sense, for example for mobile users which do not have full featured browsers. I will add it.
2. I think, no. It is very tricky to run, it depends on an exact version of Chrome, which binary also must be patched in order to reduce security (to allow saving content of frames, etc).
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I tried to archive some pages yesterday and today (2013-03-16), but I always got: "Error: Network error." It seems to be the same with different target sites. I had also tried with addresses targeting my own server here and had the same effect, while I and others could reach my server that way. Looking at my logs, I did not even find an attempt to connect to my server from this site (archive is). What is wrong?
Thank you for reporting, the problem was on my side.
Should be fixed now.
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Hey! It's a great resourse. Is there any possibility, that my bookmark will be removed? It's not porn or anything, but i'm not sure about copyrights :)
To increase reliability and be more confident, you can put your link to all the archiving sites, not only to http://archive.is/ (there are also http://peeep.us/ http://webcitation.org/ http://hiyo.jp/ http://megalodon.jp/ ).
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Can you recommend the best method/script so I may batch archive about 7000 urls?
something like
curl —data url=http://url-to-submit.com/ http://archive.is/submit/
Please note, that it may take up to 1 hour to process 7000 urls (after you submit them and before they will be visible on the site).
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If I archive my web pages on your site I assume that the search engines will not say I am a spammer because my material appears more than once on the internet.
They should not. As far as I understood, SE spamming is about spreading links to a site, not about copying the content.
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Any plans to provide an API or open source the code? This would be a really helpful addition to many of the bookmarking tools.
The site supports OExchange (http://www.oexchange.org/), so the bookmarking tools can use it.
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You refer to the wonderful Wayback Machine. Have you had any discussions with the Internet Archive? Would you be interested in integrating your cool service with theirs somehow?
No, I hadn’t any discussion.
But I’ve heard some rumors about their plans to use real browsers to execute javascript, etc.
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You said u like the idea of sharing the data your site has collected. Seed it via torrent ;)
Currently all data is available via http.
Isn’t it enough ?
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The current homepage shows a box from which you can submit a link to be archived (which works really well, by the way). However, I think it would also be a nice idea to allow looking for previous snapshots of a web page by entering the address at the home page. (For example an extra button that says "find saved copies".)
Yes, the new design (which I hope will be online soon) will have this feature.
For a while, you can check if the page was saved by querying URLs like
http://archive.is/http://www.google.com/ - all snapshots of the exact url
http://archive.is/www.google.com - all snapshots from the domain
http://archive.is/*.google.com - all snapshots from all subdomains