The Wayback Machine Chrome extension got a big update. Every journalist & researcher should install it ASAP! Faster URL archiving w/ customization, access to yr personal archive, and it tells you if the page you’re on has already been archived, etc.
Posted by jpluimers on 2023/12/05
Last year I learned about [Wayback/Archive] Wayback Machine – Chrome Web Store via a Twitter thread starting at
[Wayback/Archive] Craig Silverman on Twitter: “The Wayback Machine Chrome extension got a big update. Every journalist & researcher should install it ASAP! Faster URL archiving w/ customization, access to yr personal archive, and it tells you if the page you’re on has already been archived, etc. #osint”
I saved the full thread at [Wayback/Archive] Thread by @CraigSilverman on Thread Reader App:
The Wayback Machine Chrome extension got a big update. Every journalist & researcher should install it ASAP! Faster URL archiving w/ customization, access to yr personal archive, and it tells you if the page you’re on has already been archived, etc. #osint
Tips:
- Create an account at archive.org and sign into it with the extension.
- Click the Settings icon in the bottom left to open more options.
- In the Context menu (at top), check “Wayback Machine Count” so you can see how many times a page has already been archived.
- Click on General Settings menu (at top) and check “Save To My Web Archive.” This puts all of the pages into your account at archive.org for easy retrieval!
- You can also set it to auto archive pages that have never been saved before. (I prefer to do it manually.)
Source code
The source code should make it way easier to amend some of my Wayback Machine related bookmarklets.
Below are a few links to get me started. Especially the files scripts/utils.js and scripts/background.js look promising as they are mentioned directly in the manifest.json file.
- interactive source code browser: [Wayback/Archive] CRX Viewer: fpnmgdkabkmnadcjpehmlllkndpkmiak
- [Wayback/Archive] CRXcavator: fpnmgdkabkmnadcjpehmlllkndpkmiak/3.0?file=scripts/background.js
- [Wayback/Archive] CRXcavator: fpnmgdkabkmnadcjpehmlllkndpkmiak/3.0?file=scripts/utils.js
The last two via [Wayback/Archive] fpnmgdkabkmnadcjpehmlllkndpkmiak source crx – Google Search.
The first via in order of browsing:
- [Wayback/Archive] decompile chrome extension – Google Search
- [Wayback/Archive] How to view-source of a Chrome extension
- [Wayback/Archive] crxviewer/cws_pattern.js at 6113c25e3569e1ec59365ad9a177aa97e2bcda61 · Rob–W/crxviewer
- [Wayback/Archive] CRX Viewer
–jeroen
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