Archive.is blog
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I noticed that you support a download link for pages that have been archived. Would it be possible to support downloading a page in WARC format?
Anonymous
It is possible but I am afraid it would not add the value you expect from WARC.
Archive.is’ snapshots are not result of the crawl but snapshots of the internal browser state.
So there is almost no metadata and even the original URLs of images are not stored (moreover, some of the images were not downloaded at all but produced by rendering complex WebKit-specific CSS sentences in order the snapshot could be simpler and less dependent on the browser of the user). -
Can newspaper articles from behind a paywall be archived?
Only those which either have “happy hours” of free access or registration-free access to all articles but limits the per-day or per-month number of articles to see.
Those which always shows “enter you credit card” instead of articles - definitely no.
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Hi, The following hashbang URLs not working: archive is /RcaO0 Won't webpage capture automatically go to the section concerned? Thanks.
this is a bug, thank you for reporting!
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For how long will this website and the archives be available, how many people maintain this project?Thank you.
Forever. Actually, I think, in 3-5-10 years all the content of the archive (it is only ~20Tb) could fit in a mobile phone memory, so anyone will be able to have a synchronized copy of the full archive. So my “forever” is not a joke.
Two persons, currently.
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Webcite has a comb feature where we can archive the links on a specific page. This comes in handy for some of my research papers. Is there an equivalent way to do this with archive. is?
Not yet.
You are the first person asking for this :)
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Can I create a user? I want to know what url I have saved?
No.
You can create a collection of your archived paged on http://delicious.com/ or http://pinterest.com/
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sin querer no di permiso para mi microfono y camara ,, necesito que se me habilite el permiso para utilizar webcams
necesitas navegar al websitio original para usar la multimedia de la pagina
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your website has a list of personal identifying information (PII) including credit card info; who do i send legal correspondence to?
You should contact the issuer bank to ensure they have the cards blocked. Banks can be found by the prefix of the card number (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Issuer_Identification_Numbers).
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where these information is saved. How can I retrieve a page that I have saved from my system?
You can download a .zip file (there is a link in the header).
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The Internet Archive and Webcite avoid copyright infringement prosecution because they have an automatic "opt out" feature which your site does not (see wiki/WebCite#Copyright_issues). Aren't you concerned about some major organization or corporation suing you or getting you listed as an international copyright pirate and your door smashed down in the middle of the night and all your computer equipment conficated? I'll understand if you'd rather consider this privately & not post it.
It is difficult to use archive.is for pirating due to limited size of the page it can save. Of course, it is still possible, by UU-encoding a movie or windows.iso and then by splitting it into small parts. But there are plenty of convenient tools to do that, for example, the torrent trackers or mega.co.nz. Or even The Internet Archive and WebCite, because they can save big binary files.