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Archiving

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NEVER rely on a single site for archiving, as we could get excluded again like on Archive.org!
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This article showcases lists of tools an average 'teen can use to archive gems because nothing on the internet is permanent, and less so on the Sharty!

Online Archiving[edit | edit source]

Be like him

Web Services[edit | edit source]

This is why you never rely on any single web archive.
You can submit a URL to these sites and view it later:
  • Megalodon - Site is in Japanese. Archives in seconds🗝️. Allows 60 daily archives which are related to IP so if you have a VPN or Tor circuit you can just change and keep archiving, and can archive audio and video (you'll have to archive the audio and video links doe due to how vichan works). It is possible to request removals of archives, however it removes URLs instead of entire sites. Can't properly archive long threads, specifically images on later replies.
  • archive.today/archive.is/archive.ph - One of the best archival sites that has been up since 2012.[1] Doesn't respond to takedown requests.🗝️ Moderately slow. May arbitrarily stop working due to a limit, come back in a couple hours when it starts doing that.
  • Ghost Archive - Broken as of now; mysteriously cannot archive sharty pages due to the 50mb limit. You can get past this by submitting a wayback or megalodon (the former is should be preferred as the latter can't be scrolled) snapshot like in archive.today doe.
  • Internet Archive / files section of archive.org - May nuke any archive after a single complaint.[2] The site is REALLY slow (no shit it's the most popular archive), avoid it entirely (Doe if you have to, rearchive it onto ghost archive and archive.today). Also this might be just me, but when I go to my past web archives on my account, they appear as "we did not archive that url" even doe it did and it's in my archive list.
  • Arquivo.pt[Marge...] - Doesn't show archives.
  • PreserveTube - For archiving 'Tube videos
  • FreezePage - Has no size limit, archives last 3 days unless you browse them within that time limit. 20mb storage limit. Accounts give you more storage for archiving, the subscription allows the archives to last forever. Can be rearchived on archive.today.
  • Archive.st - Archives as a screenshot or full page, however the full page function is broken, so rely on the other function. Has been online since 2018 [3]
If you want to be handheld see: Archiving/archive.today tutorial (or just use the extensions listed below)

Files[edit | edit source]

ANYTHING UPLOADED TO THESE SITES ARE ONLY PUBLIC IF YOU SHARE THE LINK TO THE FILE
You can upload pictures, videos, zip folders, and HTML pages you've collected to:
and store the links in a note file or cloud service.

Extensions[edit | edit source]

Here is a list of extensions you can use to help make archiving easier:

Local Archiving[edit | edit source]

Truly nothing on the internet is permanent, not even archive sites. That's why it's important to save stuff (e.g. Images, Videos, and HTMLs) to your local hard drive and make backups.

Web Pages[edit | edit source]

  • "Ctrl+S" on your Browser - Works fine on Vichan, however may break if the page is too large.
  • On Firefox (and derivatives like LibreWolf), "Ctrl+S" and then choose "Web Page, complete". This stores pictures and stylesheets in a subfolder.
  • Chrome and Edge and Internet Explorer [doesn't support webp, no images] also let you save pages in a single file as MHTML.
  • Singlefile extension [5] - Good overall, Saves the page as you see it in one .html file, Saves full images if you open them.
  • On mobile, don't use Samsung Internet to save pages! They are stored in a way they can only be accessed from inside the app! You can't copy the files to a different device without extreme measures like rooting and bootloader unlocking.
  • Firefox Mobile lacks the ability to save pages at all. The best you can do is print as PDF, and the PDFs look crap. Chrome mobile lets you save as MHTML in the download folder, which is the most decent option so far for mobile users.
  • On Samsung phones, you can take a screenshot and hold down the down arrow that pops up at the bottom to take a long screenshot of any Android app, including soyjak.st

Media[edit | edit source]

Advanced[edit | edit source]

  • ArchiveBox allows you to run your own website archiver locally (can also apparently import from browser bookmarks or history).
  • yt-dlp - Download videos from YouTube and many other sites.
    • It is recommended that you download videos as AV1/VP9+Opus instead of H.264+AAC as the former is higher quality
  • gallery-dl - For mass downloading image galleries and collections.
  • Hayden - Newgen imageboard archiving software.
  • >he doesn't have a custom-programmed live sharty-compatible vichan archiver >shiggy saving individual threads

The Party's Archives[edit | edit source]

Use this button to grab archives quickly

4chan Archives[edit | edit source]

Lost Archives[edit | edit source]

There have been three incidents where the Sharty lost past archives:
  • On June 5, 2023, the Log Warehouse shut down, causing a major loss of images from November 2022 to June 2023. While the images were lost, the textual content were archived and are available as a torrent or on archive.soyjak.st.
  • In November 2023, another sharty archive - archive.soyjak.in - shut down. This time no archive was made, and so threads from Autumn 2023 were lost.
  • On December 13, 2023, the Sharty was excluded from the Wayback Machine after being snitched on, resulting in the loss of over 10,000 archives, mostly from the early days of the site. These archives were only stored on the Wayback Machine and are now permanently lost.
This is why it's important to ‘chive pages via multiple means; otherwise, if an archive site suddenly disappears or deletes our pages like the Log Warehouse or Wayback did, your thread doesn't become lost media.
Internet Archive
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This party has been nuked from orbit.

Further reading[edit | edit source]

Citations

  1. ↑ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Archive.today
  2. ↑ 'chive jannies excluded the soyjak.party domain from the Wayback Machine because of a single snitchtroon (not the current "soyjak.st" domain doealbeit).
  3. ↑ https://web.archive.org/web/20180802195010/https://archive.st/
  4. ↑ https://archive.is/OzsjR
  5. ↑ Scroll down to "Install" section
  6. ↑ Yes, I hate Reddit too, but this subreddit can still provide useful information on archiving.