GitHub – dessant/web-archives: Browser extension for viewing archived and cached versions of web pages, available for Chrome, Edge and Safari (plus Firefox and Opera too)
Posted by jpluimers on 2026/02/26
The description of [Wayback/Archive] GitHub – dessant/web-archives: Browser extension for viewing archived and cached versions of web pages, available for Chrome, Edge and Safari is missing Firefox and Opera, but in the meantime the extension is available in these stores for:
As a great example of how to write a browser plugin for all these architectures, it shows how to write this in mostly JavaScript with Vue.js with a tiny bit of play HTML.
Web Archives is a plugin that lets you search either the URL from the current browser tab, or a URL you type, within various archival sites (all Wikipedia links):
- Wayback Machine
- Yandex
- Archive.is (which is one of the domains for Archive Today)
- Perma.cc
- Megalodon
- Ghostarchive
- WebCite
- Software Heritage
Those are also documented – but linking to the actual sites – at [Wayback/Archive] Search engines · dessant/web-archives Wiki · GitHub.
I found it during research around the Archive Today controversy that popped up in February 2026, but has been going on for longer. Please note that in this controversy, the Wayback Machine of the Internet Archive plays no role: it is purely about the Archive Today behaviour.
The I had to do some querying after finding the [Wayback/Archive] Wikipedia blacklists Archive.today, starts removing 695,000 archive links : wikipedia comment
[Wayback/Archive] SanchoMandoval comments on Wikipedia blacklists Archive.today, starts removing 695,000 archive links
The Web Archives plugin for Firefox lets you pick from a bunch to try with any link. Currently there are eight options, and they seem to move ones in and out as they go online/offline.
Unfortunately archive.today seems to be by far the most likely to work.
as that comment mentioned it was specifically for Firefox.
This query found the source for the plugin in the topmost hists: [Wayback/Archive] Web Archives plugin for Firefox at DuckDuckGo
--jeroen
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