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How do I use the bookmarlet? I have no idea what "drag to toolbar" means. What toolbar? Where am I supposed to drag it? I'm using Microsoft Edge.

Mon, 29 Oct 2018 20:14:35 +0000

Like this http://archive.today/ZPzxt

I looked in the FAQ, didnt find an answer, so I'll ask here. Have you considered trying to connect your database with the wayback machine's database? So that when someone searches for a page, they are actually searching both archiving websites simultaneously.

Fri, 10 Aug 2018 00:18:15 +0100

There is http://timetravel.mementoweb.org/ for that

Is there any reason to delete products from Amazon? I have saved several products this week to see how the price changes and have disappeared. Why did this happen? I do not get it.

Tue, 20 Feb 2018 23:21:04 +0000

I have not deleted, it might be just difficult to find the saved pages

Why can't I see a complete listing of everything saved for twitter ThomasArzi

Tue, 20 Feb 2018 23:21:00 +0000

http://archive.is/https://twitter.com/ThomasArzi/* ?

Please accept cryptocurrency donations, e.g., BCH, ETH, XMR, ZEC, PIVX.

Mon, 12 Feb 2018 23:07:41 +0000

I hope it will be possible soon.

You may want to help implementing that here: https://github.com/liberapay/liberapay.com/issues/364

What happened to all of the archives of twitter com/ streaminarzi

Tue, 06 Feb 2018 07:44:00 +0000

this http://archive.is/https://twitter.com/StreaminArzi/* ?

Gransy/Regtons offer “whois proxy” which will list...

Tue, 30 Jan 2018 13:47:13 +0000

Gransy/Regtons offer “whois proxy” which will list “yourdomain.com@fablovkawhoisprotection.com” in whois data instead of your actual email.
On “fablovkawhoisprotection.com” they use overstrict anti-spam filter which rejects emails sent from Gmail.
If someone send a message to “yourdomain.com@fablovkawhoisprotection.com” from Gmail, you do not receive it and the sender will get the error back:

No wonder such a unstable email service raises ICANN compliance reports about invalid email in whois.

No wonder that people unable to contact the domain owner via email have to fill the Whois Inaccuracy Complaint Form https://forms.icann.org/en/resources/compliance/complaints/whois/inaccuracy-form

So far so good: there is a bug, there is a report, there should be the fix.

But not in case of Gransy.
Referring to the letter from ICANN, they were trying to collect as much personal documents of domain owner as possible threatening to remove a domain (two documents were not enough, they wanted more, apparently to perform the identity theft) and completely deniyng the issue with whois proxy email.

The most technically incompetent registrar I ever seen. Zombies.

Dear archive project, I have been working on recreating the history of the small but very active indie gamedev community on 8 chan, called agdg. I noticed that there is a time between may and august of 2015 when no archives are available for the imageboard, outside single snapshots. I read somewhere that they were removed due to inappropriate content, but I decided to reach you in hopes that perhaps you maintain some archives from that time.

Fri, 26 Jan 2018 16:29:35 +0000

Yes, loli-related pages (like /hebe/) have been hidden.

As for /agdg/, there are really only a few pages have been archived.

Only http://archive.is/https://8ch.net/agdg/* http://archive.is/https://8ch.net/agdg/* http://archive.is/http://8chan.co/agdg/* https://archive.is/http://8chan.co/agdg/*

AFAIK, there were projects with the goal to archive whole 8chan, they may have more

Attack on .ch and .li domains

Fri, 26 Jan 2018 07:56:24 +0000

A nice story happened few days ago: Switchplus, the biggest registrar of .ch and .li domains have blocked the archive mirror domain “archive.li”.
The reason was “we have informed by the police that there is ‘illegal content’ hosting on the domain”.
They also treatened to delete the domain after 3 days of blocking.

After short interview[1] it was discovered that the “police report” has been sent not by the police but by a random person who simple wrote “detective sergeant” at the bottom of his email.
And what made the Switchplus executive believe that the email was really send by the police is that it was a “repetitive case”.
How nice.
When Switchplus receives few emails signed by Nigerian King, it would ensure them they are talking to real Nigerian King.
A rowhammer attack, huh.

I was under impression of talking to an inexperienced junior employee, but quick googling revealed that Wolfram Schmidt is the CEO of Switchplus, about 50 years old[2].
He manages assets of thousands people and feels right to sequestrate them based on fake email messages in his inbox.

If you - my reader - have a business competitor with a website on .ch or .li domain, you might easily destroy the business of the competitor by sending email message to Wolfram Schmidt telling that you are a Nigerian Detective and you found something illegal on the competitor’s website.
You do not even have to point what exactly is illegal.
One message might be not enough but 2-3 messages should form a “repetitive case”.

And if you own a .ch or .li domain managed by Switchplus, your domain is in danger.

1. https://twitter.com/archiveis/status/956025540028268547
2. https://www.visualcv.com/wolframb

I like that when a page is archived using google, bing, or yandex cache, both the "saved from" and "original" URLs are shown. Could you please add this feature for the cached pages at Exalead and Newslookup? Thanks in advance.

Mon, 08 Jan 2018 23:30:05 +0000

In the FAQs it says that it has (sic) no sense to archive youtube.. unless you want to archive the title of the video and comments. But why it has (makes) no sense? Videos also get deleted. Isn't information in video format equally important as information in text format? Why not archiving videos also?

Mon, 06 Nov 2017 19:43:05 +0000

Because videos are huge and archiving them would cost millions.

Are websites, using Let's Encrypt as SSL Certificate blocked? Sites like lbry-io, vc-gg or spee-ch can't be accessed

Sun, 05 Nov 2017 14:05:12 +0000

It is not related to Let’s Encrypt, just some websites use to strict SSL setings and reject old clients, like Android 4 or archive.is

I hope to upgrade SSL libraries soon.

The machine-translated Chinese is too weird. How can I provide a better translation?

Thu, 27 Jul 2017 00:04:32 +0100

That would be very nice.

History links for a page used to say "previous" and "next", or something like that. They seem to be gone now? It's a little harder to navigate now (especially with redirected links that were saved).

Mon, 17 Jul 2017 06:42:40 +0100

There were two problems:

1. they were inconsistent (sometimes there was no next-arrow but actually there was next snapshot).

2. they performed too many database requests degrading site performance.

I home to return the arrows as soon as the problems are solved.

It is not possible to archive linkedin pages -- the browser always redirects. Is this something fixable?

Fri, 14 Jul 2017 04:41:35 +0100

Fixable. But not quick and easy.

Is it possible to include a link to check if a url can be found in Bing's cache, alongside the links you already have for Google's cache, WebCite, and Megalodon? Possibly Yahoo's cache as well? (not sure if Yahoo's works though) I've found those links you include to be very helpful at times. :)

Tue, 13 Jun 2017 04:03:51 +0000

yes, Bing and Yahoo caches should work as well.
for example http://archive.is/https://8ch.net/pol/res/10022494.html

Hello. Not to sound ungrateful, but will you ever add video or audiovideo archiving? Best regards.

Mon, 12 Jun 2017 02:59:03 +0000

Unlikely. First, it is expensive, they are huge. Second, it is dangerous (anti)pirate territory I am not familiar with.

Why did you change it so that Google cache snapshots are indexed by the date they were submitted to the archive rather than the date the cache snapshot was taken? The old way was better.

Mon, 12 Jun 2017 02:57:32 +0000

They are indexed by both (althought there are some bugs as the timestamp in the Google Cache header uses too many formats and languages that I do not support all of them correctly)

Is there a way to donate once instead of monthly/yearly?

Wed, 31 May 2017 21:25:22 +0000

Hm. Maybe by using a card witch is going to expire within the year?

can't seem to archive this link: telegraph co uk steve-bannons-secret-war-room-whiteboard-accidentally-revealed it keeps choking on the domain optimizely

Wed, 03 May 2017 19:17:13 +0100

Fixed