Quite often while saving a URL in the WayBack Machine, the response often is headed “Sorry” with non-descriptive “Job failed”. In the background however, at least half of th…
Related: JavaScript bookmarklet to replace part of the WayBack machine URL
For instance, a while ago for instance http://archive.fo/search/?q=nu.nl, https://archive.fo/search/?q=nu.nl and similar URLs redirected to https://archive.li/search/?q=nu.nl, which in turn redirected to itself:
This page isn’t working
archive.li redirected you too many times.
ERR_TOO_MANY_REDIRECTS
This isn’t a cookie thing as it happens in an anonymous window on several browsers as well. Most redirect checkers return a 429, as Archive Today has quite strict rate limiting:
- [Wayback/Archive] Check 301 Redirects. Check ALL URL VERSIONS Automatically:
https://archive.fo/search/?q=nu.nl - [Wayback/Archive] Try Our Free URL Redirect Checker:
https://archive.fo/search/?q=nu.nl
I tried these bookmarklets to go to a good archive.is link from the above replacing http://archive.fo/search/?q=nu.nl, https://archive.fo/search/?q=nu.nl, http://archive.li/search/?q=nu.nl and https://archive.li/search/?q=nu.nl with https://archive.is/search/?q=nu.nl (with the same above bolded parts):
javascript:(function() {window.location=window.location.toString().replace(/^http.?:\/\/archive\.[is|li]\//,'https://archive.is/');})()
It can even be simpler (but maybe not fully conformant to specs):
javascript:location=location.href.replace(/^http.?:\/\/archive\.[is|li]\//,'https://archive.is/')
These both fail!
Even a simple bookmarklet like this fails too:
javascript:alert('hello world!');
It took me a bit of thinking to figure out why, but then figured out that any JavaScript requires a page context to run, and when no page is displayed, there is no context to run on.
And indeed:
- (thanks [Wayback/Archive] DG.!): [Wayback/Archive] bookmarklet – Javascript in Blank Page Address Bar – Stack Overflow
- (thanks [Wayback/Archive] Chocimier!): [Wayback/Archive] javascript – Bookmarklet on blank page – Stack Overflow
–jeroen
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