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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):

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archive.today: On the trail of the mysterious guerrilla archivist of the Internet – Gyrovague

Posted by jpluimers on 2026/02/23

I pulled this post forward from the blog queue in light of the recent Archive Today controversy (which started because of the Gyrovague article mentioned below). Please note that in this controversy, the Wayback Machine of the Internet Archive plays no role: it is purely about the Archive Today behaviour. Apart from this remark above the line I left this blog post in the original form I wrote it in, as I liked it a lot and quite a few published and queued blog posts still depend on it.

From a while back, but still a historic relevant article: [Wayback/Archive] archive.today: On the trail of the mysterious guerrilla archivist of the Internet – Gyrovague

Via [Wayback/Archive] difference between archive today and wayback machine – Google Search

Related:

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Dit is de NPO Radio 2 Top 2000-lijst van 2025

Posted by jpluimers on 2025/12/25

Na elk jaar lijkt de lijst te verdwijnen, dus daarom gearchiveerd:

NB: Archive.is kan geen .xls bestanden archiveren.

--jeroen

 

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When Archive.Today (and their .fo/.is.li/.md/.ph/.vn) look down; check your DNS

Posted by jpluimers on 2025/05/19

The [Wayback] Archive Today blog has not been updated for more than a year now*, and this looks to coincide with up-time issues.

Part of the inability to save pages in Archive.Today (or any of their other domains) or access them can have to do with DNS issues, actually confirmed by the linked Wikipedia article. There are many links on them, some are these reddit threads:

  • Note the problem archiving the Archive Today blog into the Wayback Machine isn’t always successful. When trying around the moments that Archive Today could not archive pages, the Wayback Machine could not find the Archive Today blog in their DNS, see the the picture below.

The really cool thing is that during after the Internet Archive hack (and therefore Wayback Machine downtime), Archive Today held up pretty much OK, so not all is bad (:

Anyway Archive Today archival started to work again after some 4 hours of problems, and I got dragged into other work, so there was no chance to investigate further. Hopefully another day… or preferably: hopefully they stay up.

Query: [Wayback/Archive] archive today down – Google Suche

--jeroen

Wayback Machine archival: "SorryCannot resolve host blog.archive.today."

Wayback Machine archival: “Sorry
Cannot resolve host blog.archive.today.”

 

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keirf/greaseweazle: Tools for accessing a floppy drive at the raw flux level

Posted by jpluimers on 2025/01/31

[Wayback/Archive] keirf/greaseweazle: Tools for accessing a floppy drive at the raw flux level

Interesting drive: [Wayback/Archive] BTC BCO 4816IA 48x 7-in-1 Card Reader CDRW/DVD Combo Drive ODD Computer Laufwerk

More on Greaseweazle:

Via this project allowing many kinds of media to be grabbed:

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Revisited: Bookmarklet for Archive.is to navivate to the canonical link

Posted by jpluimers on 2024/08/27

I put the proper Bookmarklet wrapper around the functions from Bookmarklet for Archive.is to navivate to the canonical link (because especially Firefox needs them):

An immediately invoked function that returns no value or an expression preceded by the void operator will prevent the browser from attempting to parse the result of the evaluation as a snippet of HTML markup:

javascript:(function(){
  //Statements returning a non-undefined type, e.g. assignments
})();

It means they now have become these:

  • Archive.is: navigate canonical URL

    javascript:(function(){location=document.querySelector('link[rel="canonical"]')?.href})();

  • Archive.is: prompt canonical URL

    javascript:(function(){prompt("Anchor",document.querySelector('link[rel="canonical"]')?.href)})();

--jeroen

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Deleted Tweet Finder

Posted by jpluimers on 2024/06/24

[Wayback/Archive] Deleted Tweet Finder taught me there is another web page archival site next to the Wayback Machine and Archive.is (also known as Archive Today): GhostArchive which was established in 2021 right when I was recovering from more than a year of cancer treatments.

They have quite a few ways to address an archived URL of which this is the main entry point: https://ghostarchive.org/search?term=https%3A%2F%2Ftwitter.com%2Fhisvault_eth%2Fstatus%2F1802834724114649422

Reminder to self: figure out the URLs that trigger archival.

Via

Note that the Google Webcache is not really an archival site, nor is there possibility to trigger archival.

The URL structure there is https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:https%3A%2F%2Ftwitter.com%2Fhisvault_eth%2Fstatus%2F1802834724114649422 (the part after cache: is the page link after URL encoding)

--jeroen

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