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How do you download the website? How do you download the website?

Hi. I really enjoy archiving and browse the Internet Archive site every day until I reach my usage limit. (Yes, there is such a limit.) Now I want to upload my own archives to the Internet Archive, but I haven't been able to figure out how to download the website. For this, I used Cyotek WebCopy (1.9.1.872) (latest version) (released on 08/18/2023) and WinHTTrack Website Copier (3.49-2) (latest version), and each time I encountered the issues listed below.

  1. While scanning the site, it also scans other sites, so the scanning never ends. (Example: I want to download `www.asite.com`, but because of a link on the site, it scans and downloads other sites as well.) (For example, the site's Facebook page.)

  2. When I change the settings to only scan `www.asite.com`, media files from other sites linked on the page are not downloaded. (Example: Some photos on `www.asite.com/any/sub/link`are pulled from `www.image.com`, and when I change the settings to only scan `www.asite.com`, the photos pulled from `www.image.com` are not downloaded.)

  3. How can I prevent the user from clicking the Logout button? (While crawling the site, if the user clicks the Logout button, they log out of the site, and as a result, part of the site isn't downloaded.)

  4. I want to log in using cookies, but when I try this in WinHTTrack Website Copier, I get a “cookies too long” error (even though I removed the unnecessary parts of these cookies using artificial intelligence). When I try this in Cyotek WebCopy, it opens the site through Internet Explorer, so the login buttons on the site often don't work, or none of the page content is displayed at all.

  5. How do I set the speed and number of connections to avoid API restrictions when downloading the site? (I think I've solved this problem). (But please explain how to do it anyway).

In summary, I need to set it up so that I can download everything from `www.asite.com`, but not other sites, and also download media (photos, videos, GIFs, etc.) pulled from other sites.

I subscribed to both Gemini and ChatGPT for all these settings and provided the link to the program's user manual site as the primary source for their most advanced models. But despite that, they always gave inconsistent results.

Thank you in advance for your help.


Any way to change the default flash loader? Any way to change the default flash loader?

It seems that Ruffle is a default flash loader Wayback uses as I've never installed it, and it seems to pop up regardless of the browser I use and refuses to load the page on older browsers. Is there any way to use my own flash player instead of Ruffle? It seems to be unable to load older flash games from the early 2000s, I have a virtual machine with IE6 and Macromedia Shockwave that I wanted to use instead to see if it would run better that way.






Any way to search for a specific date range of archives across an entire domain? Any way to search for a specific date range of archives across an entire domain?

the only point where you can directly select a date, that i can see, is once you're looking at a single url. the list of urls for a prefix only lets you sort by "when its earliest and latest archive were."

I just need a list of every page on that site that has an archive within a certain month. Filtering out any that don't. That can potentially include many pages which were FIRST archived way before that, and LAST archived way after that, impossible to single out using the methods i know of.


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Why can I not search all urls under a prefix if it includes a question mark? Why can I not search all urls under a prefix if it includes a question mark?

for example, the site i'm looking at stores its profile pictures/avatars as urls that end in something like image.php?u=31112

however, sometimes the url has something else after that number, which is the case here. I'm trying to find all archived pages that start with http://vgboxart.com/forums/image.php?u=31112, but that exact URL (with nothing after it) was only archived in 2024. There are some pages archived from 2010 that have broken images with more specific urls like http://vgboxart.com/forums/image.php?u=31112&x=1267629353

This one isn't archived, but i want to search http://vgboxart.com/forums/image.php?u=31112* to see if ANY of them are, however you seemingly can't use the asterisk search if a question mark comes before it. it always just goes "wayback machine hasn't archived that page" as if i was plugging in one specific url and not just a prefix to search under.

I'm just trying to how many of my old pfps from this site got archived in any form, since most archives just use a much later archive of the one i used from 2013 all the way until the site shut down in 2025. I did find a few others, but i know for a fact that the earliest one i have found is not the first pfp i used there.



Archive of our Own bookmark links vanishing Archive of our Own bookmark links vanishing

I am trying to save my bookmarks on my Archive of our Own profile. I successfully saved both the bookmark page links and the view_adult=true links on November 13, but I noticed they were gone on November 17. Now, I am positive I saved these links so I was baffled.

As a test. I tried saving them all over again on the 17th. I checked them today. Presently, some of them are working, but half of them are gone from the Archive when I am absolutely positive I saved them (I know because I saved the links on the word document to be sure.)

What is happening? Is the Archive scraping saves right now? Is it just not particularly kind to AO3 bookmark links?


Missing saves I made & that others apparently made Missing saves I made & that others apparently made

So a bit ago the voxtek hazbin promotional site went up. I immediately went to save it, but was stopped and told it had already been saved so many times that day that it was limited. Okay, so no big deal. Except when I went to look for those saves now (I wanted the Velvette martini glass image in full resolution, because I can only find it at half or lower online and I have all the others), it said no results. Okay, maybe a bug. So I saved it as it currently is so I could go to the calendar thing through that. It said it was the first time the site was saved. Does anyone know how to find the ones it supposedly stored initially, or are they gone forever?


Why are my archives being deleted? Why are my archives being deleted?

It is I again,back with more Tvtropes archives.

http://web.archive.org/web/20251204000000*/https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/recent_videos.php?page=93

So,my first and SMALLER problem,is that occasionally I'll get a pop-up that says I cannot archive a page more than 3 times.This is despite there only being 1 archive.Wtf.

http://web.archive.org/web/20251204000000*/https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/recent_videos.php?page=35

My second and BIGGER problem is that some archives just DISAPPEAR.I have been using a laptop to archive the 100 pages of Tvtropes videos for a LONG time (seriously,look at the archives from july.All me).

Since November 20th~ish,some have just been deleted,even when they were up the day before.Like on Page 35,I had 2 archives on Dec2nd,& 3 on Dec3rd.Those are no longer there,I still had the laptop open on P35,& could not see those archives after refreshing the page.

Why is this happening?Are archives of other websites disappearing too?



SWF error SWF error

hi, i found this panoramic view: https://web.archive.org/web/20150217140044/http://perfectumlab.com/ru/tags/virtualnaya-ekskursiya of the t80 via the way back machine however, when i click the panoramic view it gives me the following error: https://web.archive.org/web/20150217145007/http://perfectumlab.com/gallery/panorams/tours/military/t80bv/?h=310.55&v=-4.13&f=155.00&l=commander&m=view_fisheye
is there any way to view it? i really need this



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Pages I save don't get archived Pages I save don't get archived

Pages I save on the wayback machine don't get archived anymore, it saves then sticks around for 5 hours and then dissappears like it was never archived, I save them in my Web archive and receive an email for it and when I pressed it later on its gone? How can I stop this because I lost about 15 web pages I made for my YouTube channel and it just keeps deleting itself especially in October I noticed this, is anyone else getting this issue?




Can somebody please tell me if there's a way to recover this one? Can somebody please tell me if there's a way to recover this one?

I'm done. I spent the previous 5 days trying to recover this YouTube video, I just can't. It says it's unavailable, and that's it. Please, somebody just tell me if there exists a way to archive this. Thank you from now.

Original URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vH3oe68y9vQ

Shortened URL: http://youtu.be/vH3oe68y9vQ

Wayback Machine URL: https://web.archive.org/web/20200828024726/www.youtube.com/watch?v=vH3oe68y9vQ (the oldest archive)




Is there any chance of being able to access those images that seem to have been deleted from this site? Is there any chance of being able to access those images that seem to have been deleted from this site?

Well, I’d like y o u to take a look at this website and just dig around a bit for the images and GIFs that are missing, or maybe anything else… ^^

I’m not very good at doing these things, so I only stayed on the surface here.

Here is the link:

https://web.archive.org/web/20050905152447/http://www.mike-myers.net/gallery/

Here is the "mainpage":

https://web.archive.org/web/20040204120151/http://www.mike-myers.net/


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I built an app to make searching on archive.org easier I built an app to make searching on archive.org easier

Hey everybody!

www.arkibber.app

I just finished building Arkibber, a free app that lets you leverage an LLM-powered middle layer to transform your query into a carefully crafted set of parameters to assist in tuning the output produced by your search.

So, I like to look for royalty-free outlets for viable assets to supplement my creative projects. However, when trying to leverage free content on websites like archive.org, I can sometimes fail to find interesting content. This wasn’t due to it not being present; mainly just a UX that seems heavily oriented towards very rigid-feeling static content retrieval, making it very frustrating for me to explore multi-media content. With hundreds of collections, subjects, and various publication years to sift through, finding a good search felt like striking gold. The issue then was that a few more filter tweaks left me lost in the straw heap.

For me, the best thing about Arkibber is iteration speed - I’m able to cycle through a wide set of natural language searches quickly, and test out my ideas. Some things aren’t available, but I’m still able to find that out way faster. Would really appreciate if some of y'all played around with it for a bit!







Does anyone know where to get this interview? Does anyone know where to get this interview?
Does anyone know where to get this interview?

I'm doing some research for an article and want to get at this interview:

https://www.bardomethodology.com/articles/2017/07/12/the-sinister-flame-interview/

But it's down and waybackmachine and other web crawlers don't seem to have it archived anywhere.

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Website Archive not working / Infinite loading screen Website Archive not working / Infinite loading screen

My web archived page, https://web.archive.org/web/20251002190929/https://refsheet.net/WildFyr/zoe, 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.







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[partially lost] Trying to find a website from the mid 2000s [partially lost] Trying to find a website from the mid 2000s
[partially lost] Trying to find a website from the mid 2000s

When I was a kid my siblings and I found this website, which I believe was, called “my strange world” (it had strange world in the title). It could’ve been “our strange world” or “this strange world “.

The website was basically an archive of all these paranormal stories that had happened from around the world.

One story was about this lady in America who found a book on her doorstep, brought it inside, put it on her couch and accidentally sat on it. And demons went into her through the book. The story goes that she then became possessed and was sent to hospital and then escaped. And she was apparently calling herself Moses or mamma Moses.

We read this story around 2006/7. And I’ve tried looking the website up a few years ago but it looks like it no longer exists. I’ve even tried the way back machine and, I think I’ve might’ve found something but, it looks more like an old blog and not what I’m after.

Myself and my siblings have tried to find this website and the story of mamma Moses for so long. But to no avail. Does this website sound similar to anyone? Or the story?

I’ve even tried asking ChatGPT but nothing much comes up. I’ve even tried searching for the story of the lady but nothing comes up. I can’t remember any other story from that website.

Edit: there’s also a good chance I’m misremembering the name of the lady. But that story is definitely one I remember reading.

The website also had a plain white background

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Page is archived (highlighted in blue) but going to it says "wayback machine has not archived this url" Page is archived (highlighted in blue) but going to it says "wayback machine has not archived this url"

https://web.archive.org/web/20200215000000*/https://twitter.com/Fawfulthgreat64/status/1214650084148822017

if you look at the calendar, the archive is highlighted in blue which normally means it was able to be archived. But going to it leads to a "sorry this page has not been archived" message. It can't be archived now because that twitter account has been suspended since last year.

(I genuinely don't know what the post is, i was just going down the list of my archived statuses in early 2020, and this is the first one that did this)






Need help in finding twitter video Need help in finding twitter video

Hi, i have been using wayback machine successfully for different twitter accounts i was interested in. Even if the account has been suspended or if the owner deleted his/her posts i found something on wayback machine. The problem is that everything is ok when it comes to images and to the original message text. But when it comes to videos it is impossible to see them. Posts are not so old, they are from 2024 I can look into the json and find a lot of links but still can’t find the videos. Maybe there is a way to search them into wayback machine..if images are still there…the same should be for some videos…. Thanks for your help


I need help finding a privated youtube video I need help finding a privated youtube video

ive tried using the wayback machine but i got an error that said "we have not been able to archive the video associated with this youtube page".

im not really sure how to carry on searching for the video now, the creator privated it about 1 year+ ago and it was a very nostalgic video to me

any tips on what to do next?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K6v3tNf4uGY&feature=youtu.be&themeRefresh=1


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"The Wayback Machine has not archived that URL." Is there any way to find access these sites? "The Wayback Machine has not archived that URL." Is there any way to find access these sites?

I'm sorry if this has been asked before but it's seriously bothering me and I don't know how the Archive works well enough to figure this out myself.

I'm trying to access an old MySpace blog from 2009, and the blog itself is archived here, but there are several links on the page that, when clicked lead to the "The Wayback Machine has not archived that URL" page. I'm heartbroken by this because I've been trying to find photos and videos of this band which seem to be scarce, and it seems that the only real collection of media is in this link that can no longer be accessed!

All this to say, is there anything I can do?! Is there any way to access these non-archived sites? :(





I know this is a long shot, but I'll take my chances. I have been trying to find an old minecraft tutorial on the SS Californian by a YouTuber named Richlarrousse. I know the tutorial was made sometime pre 2019. If anyone can use the wayback machine to find it, it'd mean a lot. I know this is a long shot, but I'll take my chances. I have been trying to find an old minecraft tutorial on the SS Californian by a YouTuber named Richlarrousse. I know the tutorial was made sometime pre 2019. If anyone can use the wayback machine to find it, it'd mean a lot.
r/WaybackMachine - I know this is a long shot, but I'll take my chances. I have been trying to find an old minecraft tutorial on the SS Californian by a YouTuber named Richlarrousse. I know the tutorial was made sometime pre 2019. If anyone can use the wayback machine to find it, it'd mean a lot.

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Trying to download an older version of a paint.net plugin using way back machine Trying to download an older version of a paint.net plugin using way back machine

A friend of mine needs an older version of this plugin in order to be able to use it.

The download link for it fails to load.

Version 1.0.10 (version needed)

https://web.archive.org/web/20220121051026/https://pixelbyte.itch.io/paint-net-sprite-plugin

Is there any way to get this version of this file somehow?


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Unable to view video from wayback machine Unable to view video from wayback machine

I accessed the wayback machine and selected a website, then went back 10 years to watch a video (this video has now been deleted), here is the video link at the wayback machine: https://web.archive.org/web/20150530205237/http://vtv.vn/video/giai-dieu-tu-hao-phan-1-29-5-2015-78011.htm . But when I clicked to watch the video, I saw nothing. At first, the image appeared, then it spun around. I waited for 5 to 10 minutes but still saw nothing. That was the first one, the next video had another error, I continued to click on another video, the link was like this: https://web.archive.org/web/20150509183522/http://vtv.vn/video/giai-dieu-tu-hao-phan-1-24-4-2015-73756.htm . But instead of nothing, this time it showed: an error occurred, ruffle error... I don't remember anymore. So how can I watch it, I really want to watch it and I have been trying for over a year now. Thanks







Photobucket image refuses to archive despite being viewable live Photobucket image refuses to archive despite being viewable live

https://web.archive.org/web/20251030235937/https://hosting.photobucket.com/albums/mm314/mariobobluigipants/3DSRoster_zps4c31896a.png

This URL is live and loads the image just fine. But the WM archive is a broken image, when that is inspected it somehow is using a Photobucket link that's formatted like a Wayback Machine link, which would obviously not work. No idea why that would happen.

I was hotlinking this image in an old post and it now has a watermark in that context so I wanted to archive the non-watermarked version so i can update the hotlink to that without losing the original URL. Did Photobucket somehow figure out how to prevent that despite the image being 100% viewable watermark free when directly accessed?


Did anyone used to have an account on Multiply.com? Did anyone used to have an account on Multiply.com?

I used to have a blog on there in the late 2000s and out of curiosity I wanted to see if I could find it on the Wayback Machine but can’t for the life of me remember what my username/url was. They say that once something’s on the internet it’s there forever lol so I wondered if anyone knows if somewhere there should be an archive/spreadsheet with all the usernames and urls?

I’d just love to see what I was blogging about at 8/9 yrs old haha

If there’s somewhere else this question would be better posted pls let me know and thanks for any advice anyone can offer! :)


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Searching for deleted youtube videos. Searching for deleted youtube videos.

Hello, I'm trying to find videos of Hamlinz's playthrough of The Beast Inside but only part 1 and 2 is available with the rest being deleted. Unfortunately I don't have the links to any of the other parts.

Here's part 1:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hXORE3j3ZMU&t=716s

I tried searching his name on WaybackMachine but only a couple of videos show up and none of them being the other parts of the series. Can someone help me out or are they truly gone?







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503 error only with executable files 503 error only with executable files

Hi

I posted this also on internet archive forum but the forum seems bugged too

I am facing some 503 errors when trying to download some abandonware audio programs

Its weird that all errors are with .exe files, since zip, PDFs and other extensions are working

Some examples

https://web.archive.org/web/20021113173542/http://www.nativeinstruments.de/fileadmin/downloads/nativecd/mewark_stoderaft_setup.exe does not download

https://web.archive.org/web/20120118101609if_/http://www.svarsoft.com/download/svartracker_1_22_free_inst.exe (Found a zipped version in other site (some free VST site, non Archived) and it downloaded

https://web.archive.org/web/20020503025953if_/http://sonicbits.com:80/files/app/SynthOne_0.1.exe

https://web.archive.org/web/20020919011303if_/http://algoart.com:80/download/software/bankstepv10.exe

But https://web.archive.org/web/20031125110144/http://www.nativeinstruments.de:80/fileadmin/downloads/nativecd/mewark-stoderaft.bin thats a Mac version does and so does other files from the same kind of content that are not windows executable files.

And Bankstep PDF manual download fine

Any issues with security and EXE files or its just a temp problem ?

Tks !


Is it possible to recover YouTube videos with a capture of a playlist that included them? Is it possible to recover YouTube videos with a capture of a playlist that included them?

sorry for the stupid question I don’t know how to use wayback machine properl, basically what happened was that I archived a certain playlist on the site and the original videos where taken down of YouTube. Sadly i didn’t archived the videos apparently but I still can access the playlist with them on it with wayback machine. Is there any way to recover these videos or they are lost “forever”?


Does anybody remember that online seal generator? Does anybody remember that online seal generator?

Years ago...like before 2012 I remember using this amazing onine seal generator website. You could shapes, fonts, colors, a few clipart designs. It was awesome and free.

Sometime after 2012 I tried to use it again and saw it was basically broken. And then I think I read something about the creator passing away.

Does anybody happen to recall what site it was? If I could find it I'd head over to the internet wayback machine and try to verify what it did and make a (perhaps lame) attempt to reconstitute the site for the masses.

So what say you Internet hive mind?





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searching for an old harry styles fic searching for an old harry styles fic

hiii!!! a wattpad story i read in high school has been on my mind for a while and i desperately want to find it. reader had an illness and was a doctor/nurse at a hospital where harry was admitted. they end up in a relationship. they have two kids. a girl and an unborn son. i think reader loses their son after being pushed down the stairs and this causes her and harry to split up for years and their daughter lives with harry. they reunite but reader ends up dying from her illness and its so sad. surely someone else has read this as well 😭



Trying to find old videos Trying to find old videos

When I was younger I had a really cringe YouTube channel, I was one of those animation meme kids. when all of that got too cringe I just completely deleted all of my videos and I have no way to view them anymore! I've been trying to find some form of archive site that would be able to let me view them. The videos were from around 2018/2020 ish on a channel called XXRarraXX or something along those lines. any form of help with finding a way to view these deleted videos would be great! I've accepted that this is probably a dead end though


Finding Old YT video Finding Old YT video

Hi, So I was looking for a japenese guy was in a bathroom and then his reflection started trolling him ( i think the japanese guy made a visual effects videos and i remember watching it probably like 2018 or 2017 ish) so after that he start shting his own reflection and there was bld on his reflection and i forgot what happend next but the last i remember he pulled a rpg to sh**t his reflection I was a kid when I was watching it so couldnt remember it well...Thank you for appreciation



Tom bearden's deleted wikipedia page
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Tom bearden's deleted wikipedia page
Tom bearden's deleted wikipedia page

If one uses the wayback machine you'll see that the scientist Thomas E Bearden once had a wikipedia page that's now gone which makes me wonder why it got deleted, was it because it didn't live up to wikipedias standards? I'd really like an answer to this because I couldn't locate the talk page on his article.

Here's Thomas E Bearden's wikipedia page on the wayback machine:

https://web.archive.org/web/20080818141657/http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_Bearden

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