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How can I test if a page exist in archive and obtain the short url
Anonymous
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Have you considered creating a browser plugin for Firefox/Chrome. One which allows you to right click any link & choose to instead open the archived page using your website. If the page is not already archived on your website, then it would first archive it & then send the user to the archived page. Many users do not wish to support "clickbait" websites, by having this functionality you allow them to deny support to those websites. Other benefits include quicker checking of the archives.
It would be more effective to ask the authors of the existing plugins (no one of them is made by me) to add this feature.
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Does the archiver use a Blink-based browser? YouTube images are served as WebP, not JPEG (fACRv).
..and it makes them invisible in Firefox. You are right.
Fixed by recoding archived webp images to png. -
How can I change the translated text? It's google translated and it SUCKS.
I would really appreciate if you suggest a better translation! Please, send an email to webmaster@archive.today
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Why do YouTube video collection pages not show the full history of a user's videos? Can't you submit the "load more" query when archiving and download more so that the history of videos shows up on the archived page? Example: Z5mBE
Fixed, http://archive.is/fACRv
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The [I'm not a robot] reCAPTCHA is very annoying when asking a question. It makes it hard to ask questions. Sometimes it shows up within the comment box but the top and bottom are cut off! I have to use Firebug to make one of the enclosing elements much bigger by giving it a height! Some of the images are very hard to make out too. It is hard to pick the street signs when some of them are blurred out! It also times out too quickly too.
It is made by Tumblr, not by me.
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Are there any limits on the number of URLs a user may submit each day? The FAQ is silent about this, if there are limits.
There is no explicit per-user limit.
There are some performance limits derived from the limits of the hardware: for example, the number of running browsers is limited and the queue size is limited.
They are very rarely hit, but the user willing to submit tons of urls has good chance to hit them. -
So the data of the snapshots archive is gdok1, archive is AlnJe and archive is hUfRf are all saved seperately, while their webpage capture and webpage screenshots are the exact same? Could you check if its the same before saving a double copy? Then you don't need the 'If this snapshot looks obsolete you can save the page again.' alert.
1. same pages like in your example are very rare. ads or block of recomedations or feed of tweets differ.
2. it might take considerable time to make a hidden snapshot to compare the previous snapshot with; also this operation may fail due to network conditions or server error.
3. for some usercases it has sense to same exact the same page twice, to proof that it has not changed. -
Is there deduplication of the data on the archive? What if two snapshots of an url are the exact same, do you save it twice on disk?
Images are deduplicated, htmls are not. There are too many images which are the same across thousands of snapshots; for example, the icons of the social networks
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Could you remove the German Google translate translation? I'd rather see the site in English than in bad German.
Could you help the free project and improve the translation?
Alternatively, you can change the language: http://www.w3.org/International/questions/qa-lang-priorities.en.php#changing