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Instantly save a web-page to the Wayback Machine (Internet Archive: www.archive.org)

Posted by jpluimers on 2014/11/24

Saving a web page for posterity is really easy: just prepend http://liveweb.archive.org/ in front of the URL in your browser, then open the page.

The Wayback Machine (Internet Aarchive) wil instantly archive it.

See this great answer by Jeff Atwood quite a while ago:

One thing that the ineffable Jason Scott just pointed out to me on Twitter:

if you give the url of the page to http://liveweb.archive.org and wait five minutes, it will archive that page. How about that?

Also you can enter http://liveweb.archive.org/http://www.website.com/page to have it happen without visiting the page.

So if you want to ensure that a popular soon-to-be or may-possibly-be deleted question gets archived by the Internet Archive, manually feed them to the URL above.

I suppose for already deleted questions, we could also undelete, wait 5 minutes, let it archive, then re-delete.

–jeroen

via: Building an archive of deleted questions – Meta Stack Overflow.

One Response to “Instantly save a web-page to the Wayback Machine (Internet Archive: www.archive.org)”

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    Rick said

    Cool!

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