https://archive.is/ : Archive.today is a time capsule for web pages
https://archive.is/ : Archive.today is a time capsule for web pages
Which parts of web page are not saved?
- Flash and content loaded by flash.
- Video and sounds. It has no sense to archive youtube.com unless you want to archive the title of the video and comments. The video itself will not be saved.
- RSS and other XML-pages saved not reliable. Most of them are not saved or saved as blank page.
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How long does it take to make a snapshot ?
The same time as to load a page into your browser. Although, saving the pages with heavy scripts or the pages full of Ads may take up to few minutes. There is 5 minutes timeout, if page is not fully loaded in 5 minutes, the saving considered failed. It is not often, but it happens.
It there limit on the page size ?
The stored page with all images must be smaller than 50Mb
What software do you run and how data is stored ?
The archive runs Apache Hadoop and Apache Accumulo. All data is stored on HDFS, textual content is duplicated 3 times among servers in different datacenters and images are duplicated 2 times. All datacenters are in Europe.
How long the page will be stored ?
Virtually forever. We have a lot of free space and although the archive grows with time, the storage and bandwidth get cheaper.
Do you delete my stored page(s) ?
Pages which violate our hoster’s rules (cracks, porn, etc) may be deleted. Also, completely empty pages (or pages which have nothing but text like “502 Server Timeout”) may be deleted.
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How is the archive funded?
It is privately funded; there are no complex finances behind it. It may look more or less reliable compared to startup-style funding or a university project, depending on which risks are taken into account.
Will advertising appear on the archive one day ?
I cannot make a promise that it will not. With the current growth rate I am able to keep the archive free of ads. Well, I can promise it will have no ads at least till the end of 2014.
How to refer to the saved page ?
Each page has short url http://archive.is/XXXXX, where XXXXX is the unique indentfier of a page. Also, the page can be refered with urls like
- http://archive.is/2013/http://www.google.de/ – the newest snapshot in year 2013.
- http://archive.is/201301/http://www.google.de/ – the newest snapshot in January 2013.
- http://archive.is/20130101/http://www.google.de/ – the newest snapshot within the day of 1st January 2013.
The date can be extended further with hours, minutes and seconds:
- http://archive.is/2013010103/http://www.google.de/
- http://archive.is/201301010313/http://www.google.de/
- http://archive.is/20130101031355/http://www.google.de/
Year, month, day, hours, minutes and seconds can be separated with dots, dash or colons to increase readability:
- http://archive.is/2013-04-17/http://blog.bo.lt/
- http://archive.is/2013.04.17-12:08:20/http://blog.bo.lt/
It is also possible to refer all snapshots of the given url
All saved pages from the domain
All saved pages from all the subdomains
Is there a way to link to the most recent archive of an article by including the URL in an archive. is link?
Yes.
http://archive.is/newest/http://reddit.com/ There is also http://archive.is/oldest/http://reddit.com/
How to refer to exact part of a long page ?
There are two options:
- add hashtag with the scroll position as a number between 0 (top of the page) and 100 (bottom). For example http://archive.is/FWVL#40%
- select some text on the page and get URL with hashtag referring to the selection. For example http://archive.is/FWVL#selection-1493.0-1493.53
Does it support any API ?
archive.is supports MementoWeb API. More info can be found here
Can I have an account to manage my bookmarks ?
No. But you can keep bookmarks to archived pages in one of the existing bookmark managers, like Delicious, Google Bookmarks, …
Why does archive.is not obey robots.txt?
Because it is not a free-walking crawler, it saves only one page acting as a direct agent of the human user. Such services don’t obey robots.txt (e.g. Google Feedfetcher, screenshot- or pdf-making services, isup.me, …)
Is IPv6 supported ?
Yes.
Are domains with national characters supported ?
Yes.
Do you preserve archivers’ privacy? E.g. not disclose the source IP address?
Yes.
But take in mind that when you archive a page, your IP is being sent to the the website you archive as though you are using a proxy (in X-Forwarded-For header). This feature allows websites (e.g shops or the sites with weather forecast) target your region, not mine.
I found incorrect/inaccurate/obsolete informartion. Can I request it to be altered or deleted?
The archive is not a news agency nor an authoritative source of reference information. It merely certifies that at the given point of time there was a page on the web. The page might well contain a fairy tale and despite “One day Little Red Riding Hood goes to visit her granny” being a false statement it is not the reason to burn the books. Note that weather forecasts on the archived pages are outdated as well.
