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Working around Archive.is/.today/.ph/.li/.vn/.fo/.md eternal spinner “Loading” when trying to archive a page

Posted by jpluimers on 2023/01/13

I have had the below Archive.is spinner “Loading” without any progress indication on a couple of URLs the last few months and I think they are tied to having special characters in the URL-to-be-archived.

My usual workaround was to first archive in the Wayback Machine, then archive the resulting URL in Archive.is as it would automatically follow the path up to the original URL,

That of course failed when  https://web.archive.org/web/*/vx-underground.org did not want to save in Archive.is: either these would give an eternal spinner on the “Loading” page no matter the browser you were using either the escaped %2A or *:

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Hopefully the Archive Today domain archive.is still exists

Posted by jpluimers on 2022/11/11

Last year there was some tension with the .is registry: [Wayback] Archive.is blog — Why has ‘is’ been redirecting to ‘vn’ and ‘md’…

This was because of a dispute from ISNIC: [Archive.is] archive.today on Twitter: “@ISNIC is threatening again with “putting archive.is in Bad Reg Process” (whatever that means). Formal reason: complaints about snapshots of old bitcoin-scam pages.”.

Back then, archive.vn and archive.md were the redirects. If archive.is really disappears, I have a lot of dead links to fix and need to first figure out which of these domains will last most:

archive.today – Wikipedia URL list:

URL

–jeroen

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archive.today on Twitter: “@ISNIC is threatening again with “putting https://t.co/Y3m3Rp5i5c in Bad Reg Process” (whatever that means). Formal reason: complaints about snapshots of old bitcoin-scam pages.”

Posted by jpluimers on 2022/10/24

Hopefully the archive.today dispute with the .is registrar ISNIC got resolved and archive.is domain still exists as last year: [Archive.md] archive.today on Twitter: “@ISNIC is threatening again with “putting in Bad Reg Process” (whatever that means). Formal reason: complaints about snapshots of old bitcoin-scam pages.”

–jeroen

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Archive.is blog: Twitter archival is slow, so limit the number of tweets you save in it

Posted by jpluimers on 2022/03/04

[Wayback] Archive.is blog — The website has been slow for some time when…

The website has been slow for some time when archiving Twitter pages, but works fine with other websites. Is there a reason for that? Thx!

Anonymous

1. There are too many pages from Twitter in the queue, which reduces their priority (if it wasn’t for this condition, it would slow everything down)

2. Twitter API sometimes responds with “429 Too Many Requests” or other error, so it usually takes more than 1 attempt to capture the page.

I would suggest refraining from saving pages from Twitter for now, especially those people trying to save dozens or hundreds of tweets

–jeroen

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Archive.is is more like a thread unroll service than an archival service

Posted by jpluimers on 2022/02/14

An interesting take a while ago on [Wayback] Archive.is blog — People often compare various features of…

People often compare various features of archive.is to those of archive.org being mistaken by name similarity (and recently added “save a page” function to archive.org).

This project is different in at least two respects:

  1. We have no goal to save the entire Internet. Only manually submitted pages which may be deleted/altered soon. We are about 100x smaller than archive.org in the storage space (700TB vs. 70PB) and expenses (X,000 $/mo vs. X00,000 $/mo).
  2. The pages are not saved in their network form. Archive.today launches real browsers (not even headless) and tries to load lazy images, unroll folded content, login into accounts if prompted with login form, remove “subscribe our maillist” modals, … So archive.today is not suitable for making notarized or digitally signed snapshots.

It would be more correct to compare it with other thread unrollers.

The RSS feed of blog.archive.today is at blog.archive.today/rss

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