My web archived page, , has an issue where it just sits forever on the loading screen. I know the scraper got more than just the loading screen, as watching it I saw more images being downloaded. Is there a way to fix this to look correct when accessing this page on the internet archive?

This website will be shutting down sometime around the new year, and I want to save what I have on my user page for future reference. But as of right now, it is not helpful at all.

Ive tried everything i coupd trying to recover a mashup of a song I was obsessed with. And though the way back machine says there been 4 archive instances I couldnt get anything.

this was the link

We are seeking an operator to extract approximately 300,000 book titles from AbeBooks.com, applying specific filtering parameters that will be provided.

Once the dataset is obtained, the corresponding PDF files should be retrieved from the Wayback Machine or Anna’s Archive, when available. The estimated total storage requirement is around 4 TB. Data will be temporarily stored on a dedicated server during collection and subsequently transferred to 128 GB Verbatim or Panasonic optical discs for long-term preservation.

The objective is to ensure the archive’s readability and transferability for at least 100 years

Hi,

Is it possible to retrieve a list of websites with a specific prefix?

For example, I want to find websites with the prefix "www.redhat" and get results like  and  . Note, I am not interested in the contents of the websites - just to know that the websites are archived.

The reason I am asking is I tried that search before and I get completely wrong websites that don't have that prefix.

For example, the webpage  comes up which doesn't have redhat anywhere in the website name

Thanks.

Hi everyone — I’m trying to track down a video by Chris Booth / Shameless Sperg titled CQ Sermon #2: “Sexual Morality and Traditional Family Values.”

The video has been removed from his Rumblr page and I can’t find a working mirror. I’ve tried the Wayback Machine, , mirrors (Rumble, FTJMedia, GoyimTV) — but sometimes those versions are inconsistent or region-blocked.

If anyone here has a download, local copy, mirror URL, or knows someone who archived his sermons, I’d really appreciate being pointed in the right direction.

What I’ve already tried:

• URL / embed archival search (Wayback, archive.today)

• Alternate platforms (Rumble, GoyimTV, etc.)

• Mirror communities (Telegram indices)

I know the uploader likely won’t share it willingly, so I’m hoping someone has already preserved it. Happy to be respectful of privacy / rules — just want to recover it for record/documentation.

Thanks so much if you can help or point me to where preservation communities congregate.

How you people willingly use this bitch ass site I still don't understand. Nothing ever fucking works, Ruffle never fucking works, it's as slow as a damn snail, every single link never seems to be archived, this website is dogshit. If it actually worked half the time, this site would be amazing.

Hello there.
I've been trying to find and old video, which has the link of: but Wayback sorta work, sorta doesn't. What's weird is that I can see the video in the tiny scroll bar but I can't get it to play nor download it really (used this crawl: )

Any possibility to get it working?

Thank you kindly.

anyone been able to access a version of vine with a useable search function? the only lead i have is still works and from the community tab there is a search bar but it's nonfunctional. elon said he's working on getting the archive back but idk abt that lol we'll see.

I was supposed to tell you guys to know the whole time last 2 or 3 months ago about me what happened, I just want to help here think. I start to work Internet Archive Wayback Machine August last year to save page GachaTubers and non-GachaTubers, I help everyone who doesn't know me but help them in Wayback Machine and if you guys wondering why I'm doing this? Because I miss my favorite GachaTubers like "Giovanny Alvarado" he is my favorite GachaTubers on 2023 but after that I never watch again, why? His Channel got deleted I'm not sure what happened but I don't want to ask him why his channel got deleted, I already ask him about that but he don't want to tell what happened. I like his videos after channel got deleted, I just sad that happened.

I start to save page after that to do not get that happened to him again, I'm save page in February last year and start the job in August last year. You need understand I didn't start to work yet, I just started to help others GachaTubers, non-GachaTubers, YouTuber, and non-YouTuber. Anyway I'm just need help something about me I just want to know from you guys about me, am I failure? I fail to help some GachaTubers I'm very failure to help them to save page, I was save them after got deleted, Close channel, missing, or change '@'. I was fail to help them after that I feel like I'm a failure, oh also I didn't save Community/Posts as well.

And here the list who is my failure after save page:

This is my failure save page, I just try to find by myself but didn't work. So I need help to find them I need to save page them.

I read in some reddit comment that wbm can't save deleted FB posts, can somebody clarify this?

Looking for some old art from an account that deleted all of its work. It's labeled as mature, so logins are needed. Any way to view the image in decent quality? i know you can see a low-quality image using a script but I'm planning on using as a wallpaper. Any ideas?

Hi guys,

I'm trying to view the Art History undergrad program info for Pratt Institute in 200-2001. The waybackmachine doesn't show any of the content of the site. Can someone tell me where the images are stored and how I might access them? nothing will load for the art history page until 2011, although the page exists. I need it to prove the lack of career-related info on the site for my student loan borrower defense application. Thanks.

Hello, I'm trying to get the Fable 3 Villager Maker to work and it says it needs the Silverlight Plugin to function. I've tried a few different things that the internet has suggested:

1. Installing Silverlight and running the page through Microsoft Edge's internet explorer options

2. Installing different versions of Silverlight and doing the same as listed above

3. Checking each existing date and capture of the site

None of these have worked and I'm starting to wonder if the reasons these aren't working is because all of the captures of the website were captured with that error. Is there anyway to fix this? I can't find any other link or way to work around this...

I'm viewing an old version of a website I made when I was a kid that was luckily archived, and many of the images are broken now. However, they weren't always broken on the Wayback Machine, in fact I have some pictures saved that came from this exact archive. Is there anything I can do about this? It seems so strange that they don't work now when they have in the past few years.

This is a long shot and I don’t know if it’s possible. My Dad passed away 8 years ago and it was recently the anniversary of his death so I was feeling sentimental. He was big into music and recorded a few songs on his MySpace. I never had an account myself but is it possible to find his old profile and see if his music is on there? I’d love to be able to hear his voice again! Thank you in advance x

Need fix this video on:

I'm trying to listen (and if possible download) an audio from an archived website, but with no result.

If anyone could help me get it working, it would be great.

So my cousin has a old musically account and she showed me a video of me and her on it and won’t tell me the name of the account I have part of the username but not the whole thing pls help me find it so I can make fun of her with it

Not sure if anyone has a solution (or if there is one, I understand Wayback Machine doesn't necessarily store files the same way as the original webpages) but I was looking on an old band website and they have .mov/vlc files of songs and such that download when I click on them but won't open. When I try to open it, QuickTime says it's not compatible, and my VLC player says there's nothing on the file somehow, like the playtime is 0:00 and it says there's no video content attached. Is there any way to recover the files with the content? It just seems weird to be able to download it but not have any content!

There’s a video that was on YouTube for a decade and then private about three month ago. I’m dying to have it downloaded and saved. If anyone could help me I would really appreciate it!!

It’s age restricted so that’s the barrier :/

There’s a video that was on YouTube for a decade and then unavailable about seven years ago. I’m dying to have it downloaded and saved. If anyone could help me I would really appreciate it!!

It’s age restricted so that’s the barrier :/

This channel has deleted videos including one that I want to read the comments for, namely Yellow Halogen part 9 which was removed in July 2022:

One big thread (with thousands of replies) on a forum is archived, about 10 years of replies are in there.

Is it not possible to search through it? I mean, just like you usually do on any forum: search by a word of phrase within the thread. I know it was never possible with Wayback machine, but maybe something has changed these days? Maybe some third-party tool that works with it, I don’t know…

for some reason when I try to archive something on wayback, doesn't matter if it's PC, mobile browser, or the app, it always says "We’re currently facing some limitations when it comes to archiving this site. We apologize for any inconvenience this might cause and appreciate your understanding."

Does anyone else find it so annoying that the only way to save a reddit page on wayback machine is to save the version of it??

I managed to find my profile as well as two archived links to one of my animations, but there’s no video playing my animation displayed. I figure this is a long shot, but is there any way I can extract the animation at this stage? I would be so extremely grateful for any sort of answer.

Thank you.

I try also with vpn but nothing can someone please help me to recovery this video and if someonne succede please send me the file so i cna download it and play thnak you

i was trying to look for an instagram account but it gives me this message. is there any way to fix this? if yes, how?

Recently I felt like rewatching some old videos, but I realized that they had been deleted from YouTube. I got their URL, but when I try to put them in the Wayback Machine, a message appears saying "We have not been able to archive the video associated with this YouTube page." Is there anything I can do to watch the videos?

I have been trying to archive a certain series because it is very illusive, at least with subtitles or dubbing (took me 5 years to get it in a language that I understand), but when I attempted to archive it on the WaybackMachine, it said the video was not retrieved. I assume this is by design not a glitch? I can't just download it because I have miniscule storage across my devices and also I would be forced to archive it in low quality. Is there any way to get it archived online or via the WaybackMachine??

the title says it all, is there a way to bypass it?

Can someone help me find a video?Its has Jennie's mantra lyrics in the song but the song is made in the style of Tyla's music. I don't have link but saved the video in my playlist and its gone.The videos title I think is mantra by tyla.

On a TikTok that, at some point, disabled comments, the same URL is archived and shows a number under the icon, but I can't load them.

Recently, YouTube took down all videos from the Meddows channel due to new guidelines that restrict bar chart race channels.

Here’s the channel link: 

Over 13 years of content are gone, and there was one specific video that was basically unique on YouTube — it used to be available here:

Is there any way to access this video even after it’s been deleted? I’ve already tried the Wayback Machine, but it didn’t work. I also tried , but had no luck either. Are there any other ways to recover or view deleted YouTube videos?

Hi. I've been trying to find a video i watch years ago. I dont have a link but I know the title and possibly the year it was released in. I've tried using the way back machine but had so no luck. Anything I should try?

Hey Guys!
I downloaded the website and i want to run it localy to check if everythink is right.

my problem is, the css files does not load if i run it in the folder with python:
python3 -m http.server 8080

I`m new to Ubuntu and hosting websites so idk what to do.

i installed: gem install wayback_machine_downloader_straw

and used the command:
wayback_machine_downloader --to 20240521042207 -a

i downloaded 82k files in 130k seconds.

Can anyone help me to fix it localy or if i downloaded it wrong?

this is the website storage:

I'm a noob on this, but I was fooling around and noticed that my insta account has been archived a couple of times on the wayback mahcine. I'm curious, is it a manual action? Someone archived my account?

Thanks!!

Hey, I’m trying to recover this video that has a copyright claim.I attempted to use the wayback machine but I am not too familiar with the website.

Hello. I was wondering if there is a way to make a list of saved webpages. I tried using the built in lists, but I cannot add web pages, only texts/images/ other items. I am trying to archive a bookmarks folder I have on my Google account, and keep them in a list somehow on my Internet archive profile. Is this possible? Or is there another way to keep them together in a list? Thanks.

Been tryna find this artists old songs for a while got sum links but he deleted songs, not archived or anything yall know how to find

links here

BobbiLorraine

Hoping to find more from this site that’s been closed a few years now, Actually paid for a lot of videos/photos that aren’t accessible now. Can only find a few stills from the homepage…Any help appreciated. (No nudes, only lingerie/bathing suits etc…) 🙏🏼

Hey, I’m trying to recover this video that has a copyright claim.I attempted to use the wayback machine but I am not too familiar with the website.

I don't really know how to use the Wayback Machine, but I've tried looking for my old YouTube channel through it. The channel was called "A_Q Dudes". It was created in November 2018, but I revealed my age on my Google account that made the YouTube channel, so it got disabled in April 2020. I really regret revealing my age that day. The content uploaded was IRL videos of me and my brother. If you could find my old YouTube channel, please let me know!

I'm trying to stream but, as you could probably guess, whether I choose either Windows Player or Real Media Player, I am unable to play anything. I know the stream was functional because there is a of somebody screen-recording the stream from the Wayback Machine in 2011, and I want to access it because the audio quality in the YouTube video is less than desirable. With current-day software, I'm positive I could record it in higher definition.

And so I'm asking. Is there any way to recover the webcast, download it or play it directly? Could I do it from a virtual machine, if my PC is too advanced? Or would I need an old machine?

I've found the video it'self but it doesn't have the thumbnail, is there any way to retrieve it

I had nothing better to do. So as I am trying to learn with Python and also get frustrated when trying to find pages in larger websites with a bunch of subdomains, I made this little Python code to help:

What the code does is see if there are any saved urls under a specific subdomain provided in a CDX result. You can choose a required number of captures under a subdomain to be considered valid subdomain in your search.

It gives you the option to choose what characters you want to include in the search and how many per combination as well.

I added a wait-time of 5 seconds a search so the site does not crash, but please be careful with it. I will probably make the wait-time a little longer in my next revision of it.

won't let me post cause I'm new so I'll just leave this here... There's a really weird set of YouTube videos that were posted a long time ago by this one musician, I want to say 13+ years ago. For the life of me I can't find it. It's basically a (50yrs old?) male musician who crossdresses (not trans, it's a legit fetish thing I think) and wears a female silicone mask and a wig. He lip-syncs to his own music he made, which is pretty decent... He kinda just bops around and sings about explicit content with paint on his body and he usually sports a thong. At least that's what I remember. Does anyone else have memory of this dude?

Edit: I got a downvote so let me clarify why I am even looking for these videos: I just liked the music he made. That's all. It had a groovy vintage vibe to it but it was juxtaposed with really explicit lyrics. I dig niche music like that...I wanted to post this on Reddit in hopes that someone who has either seen these videos in the past, or has better internet archive searching skills would see this.

i'm trying to download a mod from nexus

Alright, so short story long, a couple of years ago, I saw a Youtuber I liked was pretty much done with their channel, and had unlisted a number of their videos. I didn't see it as a problem, but fearing that thing Youtube did where they basically privated all unlisted videos or whatever, I decided to download all of them, and for a long while, I had thought I had the complete collection.

Until yesterday.

I had the accursed thought, you see, that I was *sure* there was a video involving the use of Mega Diancie and Sableye, and watched my entire archive again. Yet they didn't appear in any of the videos I had saved. Was I remembering something else? Apparently not.

It was today that I had decided to use the Wayback Machine to see if I got everything, and after searching, I had found out that there were two whole videos right next to each other that I somehow managed to gloss over, or perhaps they just weren't in the playlist anymore? Regardless, horrified. Terrified. Haunted.

Anywho, when I saw the pages archived, I had hoped the videos would be attached. Apparently not. I have gone through site after site after site trying to see if I can find them anywhere to download, but to no avail.

Is there anything that can be done, or am I going to sit here haunted by these two videos staring me in the eyes and taunting me?

Hello,

I've been having this problem where the wayback machine keeps showing me the current version of a website, no matter which date I click on. Is there any way to fix this?

I'm not entirely sure how to use the WayBackMachine but I'm running out of hope. The channel had 800-1000 subscribers and I know it was active July 20~ 2024, I dont remember when exactly I deleted it though. I uploaded mostly Fortnite content and I really valued the channel, I dont know if I have any of the videos saved anywhere but I'm frantically looking. The channel name was "Sadistie" around the date I mentioned. I did change the name a good amount. It started as Cranic and then I changed it to Staridium, then Sadistie and finally Starie/StarieVT, which was the last name I had before deleting it. Please, if you find anything or could help, let me know.

I keep getting this "additional security check required" pop up when I try to access a page via Wayback machine. I click "I am human" but nothing happens. Anyone else having this issue? Any suggestions?

I have asked in several other reddits relating to fic writing to no avail. I am looking for a fic that was posted to tumblr between 2018-2021. I fear that the account was numed or self wiped during/ in protest of one of the ban waves of content on tumblr. The most unfortunate thing is I do not remember the name of the author or the fic. I have been hundred of pages been on google using the site: filter to try and get this to surface. I think I found the writing prompt that inspired it but could not find it.

what are the chances that it is even in the way back machine?

UPDATE Hearing that there is potential for hope the following is a rough summary of what I remember of the story:

I am looking for a sci fi fic that was like 11-17 parts. I think it was a soulmates soul mark fic. I read it on tumble in 2022, I think it was from 2017-2021. I would also appreciate suggestions for where else the author may have posted in those years so I can continue my search on those sites.

The MMC is sponsored to go to the school of the FMC by her father, some admiral or diplomat or something. The MMC is hired by the father to be the best friend of the FMC and keep her from getting into too much trouble and (I think) from having romantic connections.

One of the main elements is programmable clothing. (If this is a soulmate fic) the MMC realizes the FMC is their soulmate early on but the FMC doesn’t realize it until the end of the story. The father may or may not know)

Part of the deal with the MMC is that after graduation the MMC never has contact with the FMC again.

The story climax is the end of the year senior dance. The MMC does a very flashy clothing transformation with the FMC and they have a very intimate dance where the MMC says or does whatever fulfills the soulmate trope for the FMC to realize he is her soulmate. Then the MMC leaves her on the dance floor and she never sees him again.

The MMC has managed to hack the computer systems so that he gets assigned somewhere but the records are deleted and there is no way for the FMC or the father to find him ever again. Basically Jason Borne's themself. The epilogue is the MMC as an adult at some diner repairing a(n) android/robot waitress. I think telling the last of the story.

Fotolog is back from the ashes. Just found out and had to share with the community. It feels like pure nostalgia, literally.

it seems is running using wordpress is the domain so i think is a tribute but looks the same

Like, if I right clicked a page and said "Save As" when it was live and downloaded an html document that loads the page in the browser in the exact state it was at the time of saving.

Or if I have the images that were on a page but they weren't saved when the archive captured it. Is there any way to contribute those to have them restored in the page?

So I had a youtube channel with my friend, and we uploaded videos together and we dont talk anymore, but she must have deleted our channel and videos... god it has been 10+ years and I want to find that channel and videos so bad,,,, please help. the channel name is madeinchina0097 from what I remember, please I need this to heal my childhood

Some websites have Cloudflare's anti-robot verification that after saving a page with the Wayback Machine it gets stuck on the loading part and the website that you or some else archived gets lost. Any help? thanks

So there is a particular YouTube video I am trying to find. It was taken off of youtube, but I was able to find it on archive.org. The problem is, the video is/was age restricted on youtube, so when I go to the archive it gives me the age/sign in check. Trying to sign in just takes me to the current youtube. Can anyone help me?

as the titel says

I had this in a very small playlist of german songs/covers that actually sounded really nice but the video has been privated and when trying wayback machine it says it wasnt able to back it up :(

Id really wanna know what this song was so i can replace it in my playlist

i really hate that youtube doesnt tell you when it yoinks songs out of your playlists..

I’m looking for a video that was tweeted to me, back when twitter videos were linked to a different site. I found the tweet with the link attached but when I click on it, it takes me to imageshack. Is there any way to find the video from this link?:

Thank you!

Site link:

I'm trying to archive these images which are hosted on Imgur:

I've read that simply saving on Imgur doesn't work anymore, and the rest of the stuff about it sounds like I just need to load the capture in my browser to save the images? But it just redirects to the live homepage. I clearly don't have the level of technical knowledge necessary to save these myself. So someone with more technical knowledge of how the Wayback Machine works would need to do these archives. The reason I want them archived is so that a defunct forum thread that's archived on Wayback Machine can display these images, as they're currently broken there due to the images not being archived.

If it's at all relevant, the page these images are supposed to appear on is here:

(I'd also really like to recover the images that were hosted on snag.gy, but I feel like that ship has sailed as they both aren't archived and aren't live)

EDIT: Also this image:

This one has an additional oddity though, and that's that if I copy the URL directly out of inspect element on the forum archive, the "live version" of it says not found and redirects to Imgur's home page, but I can find it in my account, seemingly with the same URL, and it works. I swear both are using identical urls so idk why the one in the forum post, even when plugged in live, is "not found" on Imgur. The only difference is http vs https, but the others above all are http links and they work so how is that an issue specifically on this one? Anyway I still want to restore this image to display on the archived site if at all possible, not sure how that would go about working with this weird quirk.

Apologies for a stupid post, I have no acknowledgement in tech... I did try researching before posting though. And I think I didn't find anything associated with my problem?

This .zip file has no mirrors for as far as I know. It was archived on WaybackMachine once, but it's not available? I found an archived  of the game, and seems like the  was also captured. But when I'm trying to open it, it says "Page not available". Was it excluded from the web? Or was it saved after the page got deleted?

I have no clue how to use the Wayback Machine so I'd be very grateful if someone more familiar with the it could help me find something, or let me know if it is even possible to find.

When I was a kid I made a webtoon called "Alien and Blacky" under the username "AlienFrogRabbit" (Possibly written as "Alien FrogRabbit).

It was about a blue anthropomorphic cat and a white anthropomorphic cat going on adventures. I was quite young when I made it to it was very bad. At some point when I got older I permanently deleted it from embarrassment. But now I'm feeling nostalgic and want to be able to look back on it.

Is there anyway to use the Wayback Machine to view old pages of the comic? Or even just the cover page.

I don't fully remember when exactly I made or deleted it. Maybe try a timeframe of 2019-2020. Like I said, I don't fully understand how the machine works so maybe it isn't possible to uncover this series, but either way I'd thought I'd check. Thanks!

It's not working or stuck on loading in Google Map Maker in Wayback Machine, can you give me a working website one?

Guys, how can I read a story that the author accidentally deleted on Wattpad? I still have the link of the story , but I’ve tried everything. Wayback, Google search, Archive… nothing worked. I’m desperate, the book was really good, and I’ve already tried everything to recover the chapters. Help!!!

Heres the link A Summer Without End

In 2002, Mark Bowden (the Author of the Book Black Hawk Down) has saved several pieces of media featuring his references for the book and movie. Unfortunately the much of the video footage are no longer working. Can anyone help me?

This is the specific videos im trying to find.

I can be viewing a page just fine, no redirecting, it's fully loaded and everything. But when I click on "about this capture", I can only see that data for a split second before I'm redirected.

It's happening to this page:

The page itself loads and displays with no further issue. But when I click "about this capture," within seconds I see this:

It went to a whole different url which was a redirect. I was just trying to look at the capture info for the fully intact capture I was already looking at. Why did this happen and how do I stop it?

Here's the original link to the video.

Here's all the webpages that Wayback has archived, which won't show the video:

TL;DR: Every attempt (curl, PowerShell ranges, aria2c) to grab a ~3.4 GB ZIP from Wayback dies at exactly 2 GB, can’t resume past that point. Looks like a hard cutoff or node bug. Anyone know if the Internet Archive has a 2 GB streaming cap or a workaround?
Trying to pull down a large ZIP from Wayback (several different mementos exist). Every tool I try dies at ~2.0 GiB and won’t resume cleanly.

Things I’ve tried so far:

1. curl (Windows)

curl.exe -L -o "...\CriminalDb_USDoD_BreachNation.zip" "snapshot-url-here"

→ Works for small test files, but for this ZIP it only delivers ~18 KB (just an HTML error page).

2. PowerShell script with Range requests

I wrote a script that tracks Content-Range and appends windows to the right offset. Problem: Wayback servers don’t always return total size, and sometimes keep serving the same ~2 GB window. Ends up stuck in a loop.

3. aria2c (fastest & resumable)

aria2c -x16 -s16 -k1M --max-tries=0 --retry-wait=5 --user-agent="Mozilla/5.0" `
  -d "G:/downloads" `
  -o "CriminalDb_USDoD_BreachNation.20240521.zip" `
  "snapshot-url-here"

Logs show it climbing until exactly 2.0 GiB / ~3.4 GiB (58%), then every connection dies with:

SSL/TLS handshake failure: Error: The token supplied to the function is invalid (80090308)

After that, progress sits frozen at 2 GiB. Retries don’t advance.

Issue

No matter what (curl, PowerShell, aria2c), the download stops hard after ~2 GB. Looks like a Wayback limit or node bug? File should be ~3.4 GiB.

I want to look for a specific word within the js of the page or html or any aspect. Manually downloading them randomly isn't working very well. I wonder if theres any projects that can comb all snapshots of the wayback machine for a site and return if a keyword shows up at all.

As always thanks in advance.

Pretty much gave up doing it myself

The Save Page Now feature hasn't been working for days. It gets stuck on the archiving URL part and never proceeds.

I found a site called that is literally the wayback machine but for new and deleted tiktoks. it lets u upload a tiktok and then it keeps it forever. saved 40 videos so far and ive seen so many deleted tiktoks on their browse page

I've found the video it'self but it doesn't have the thumbnail, is there any way to retrieve it