Archiving Google Product Forums URLs
Posted by jpluimers on 2020/11/13
Archiving Google Product Forum URLs is a pain in the butt for a couple of reasons:
- By default the URLs in your browser present themselves like productforums.google.com/forum/#!topic/chrome/rXamwvFGWXs, with a piece of JavaScript wizardry to show the actual content after the browser page initially displays
- The search engine shows them like productforums.google.com/d/topic/chrome/rXamwvFGWXs, which The WayBack Machine on the Internet Archive cannot archive with web.archive.org/save/https://productforums.google.com/d/topic/chrome/rXamwvFGWXs because it mis-interprets [WayBack] productforums.google.com/robots.txt
- Archive.is can save them with a URL like archive.is/?run=1&url=https://productforums.google.com/d/topic/chrome/rXamwvFGWXs
So the trick for saving is:
- Get from the
/forum/#!topic/based URL to the/d/topic/based one - Put it after the
archive.is/?run=1&url=, then save
--jeroen
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