Archive.is blog
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Your service is awesome! Is it possible to donate? The one thing I feel is missing is a feature for archiving pdfs. Perhaps it's a manual or a terms of service I'd really like it if there was an independent copy that could back me up.
Anonymous
Hi.
You can use webcitation.org to store pdf.
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Pages from reddit.com will be saved with all comments expanded
Before the fix: http://archive.is/0gmIN
After the fix: http://archive.is/eRCSv
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what happened to the site? Anonymous
it works for me (and for many others as well)
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Added “download .zip” function
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You have typo in FAQ: “It there any limit on the page size ?” should be “Is there (…)”. kthx. Anonymous
Thank you
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what is the name of the archive is robot? Anonymous
It used to be “archive.is bot”.
Now it impersonates as a regular browser, because some popular sites (instagram to name one) try to detect if the page was requested by bot or human and in the former case can show the ugly version of page which is optimized for bots, not for people.
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Is it possible to get the source code of this tool? Anonymous
No, it is more a set of hacks than a project.
But you can find similar open source projects, for example https://github.com/gildas-lormeau/SingleFile/
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What software is used to make the actual snapshot? (I wrote a personal version of this which uses wget -p -etc, which is less than ideal on js-heavy pages) Anonymous
http://phantomjs.org/ with some patches.
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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? Anonymous
Thank you for reporting, the problem was on my side.
Should be fixed now.
