archive.

today
archive.today (or archive.is) is a web archiving site,
founded in 2012, that saves snapshots on demand, and archive.today
has support for JavaScript-heavy sites such as Google
Maps and progressive web apps such as Twitter.[4]
archive.today records two snapshots: one replicates the
original webpage including any functional live links;
the other is a screenshot of the page.[5]

History
archive.today was founded in 2012. The site originally
branded itself as archive.today, but in May 2015,
changed the primary mirror to archive.is.[6] Screenshot of the archive.today home page
In January 2019, it began to deprecate the archive.is Type of site Web archiving
domain in favor of the archive.today mirror.[7] Available in Multilingual
URL archive.today (https://archive.to
Features day) (main)
archive.ph (https://archive.ph)

Functionality archive.is (https://archive.is)

archive.li (https://archive.li)
archive.today can capture individual pages in response
archive.vn (https://archive.vn)
to explicit user requests.[8][9][10] Since its beginning, it
has supported crawling pages with URLs containing archive.fo (https://archive.fo)
the now-deprecated hash-bang fragment (#!).[11] archive.md (https://archive.md)
archiveiya74codqgiixo33q62qlrq
archive.today records only text and images, excluding tkgmcitqx5u2oeqnmn5bpcbiyd.o
XML, RTF, spreadsheet (xls or ods) and other non- (Accessing link help)[1]
nion
static content. However, videos for certain sites, like
Twitter, are saved.[12] It keeps track of the history of Registration No
snapshots saved, requesting confirmation before adding Launched May 16, 2012[2][3]
a new snapshot of an already saved page.[13][14]

Pages are captured at a browser width of 1,024 pixels. CSS is converted to inline CSS, removing
responsive web design and selectors such as :hover and :active. Content generated using JavaScript
during the crawling process appears in a frozen state.[15] HTML class names are preserved inside the
old-class attribute. When text is selected, a JavaScript applet generates a URL fragment seen in the
browser's address bar that automatically highlights that portion of the text when visited again.

Web pages cannot be duplicated from archive.today to web.archive.org as second-level backup, as

archive.today places an exclusion for Wayback Machine and does not save its snapshots in WARC format.
The reverse—from web.archive.org to archive.today—is possible,[16] but the copy usually takes more time
than a direct capture. Some web sites get deleted from Internet Archive's listings retroactively or blocked
from being saved due to their robots.txt file, but archive.today does not use this.[10]

The research toolbar enables advanced keywords operators, using * as the wildcard character. A couple of
quotation marks address the search to an exact sequence of keywords present in the title or in the body of
the webpage, whereas the insite operator restricts it to a specific Internet domain.[17]

Once a web page is archived, it cannot be deleted directly by any Internet user.[18] Removing
advertisements, popups or expanding links from archived pages is possible by asking the owner to do it on
his blog.[19]

While saving a dynamic list, archive.today search box shows only a result that links the previous and the
following section of the list (e.g. 20 links for page).[20] The other web pages saved are filtered, and
sometimes may be found by one of their occurrences.[21]

The search feature is backed by Google CustomSearch. If it delivers no results, archive.today attempts to
utilize Yandex Search.[22]

While saving a page, a list of URLs for individual page elements and their content sizes, HTTP statuses and
MIME types is shown. This list can only be viewed during the crawling process.

One can download archived pages as a ZIP file, except pages archived since 29  November  2019, when
archive.today changed their browser engine from PhantomJS to Chromium.[23]

Since July 2013, archive.today supports the API of the Memento Project.[24][25]

Worldwide availability

Australia

In March 2019, the site was blocked for six months by several Australian internet providers in the aftermath
of the Christchurch mosque shootings in an attempt to limit distribution of the footage of the attack.[26][27]
It has since been unblocked.

China

According to GreatFire.org, archive.today has been blocked in China since March 2016,[28] archive.li since
September 2017,[29] archive.fo since July 2018,[30] as well as archive.ph since December 2019.[31]

Finland

On 21 July 2015, the operators blocked access to the service from all Finnish IP addresses, stating on
Twitter that they did this in order to avoid escalating a dispute they allegedly had with the Finnish
government.[32] It has since been unblocked.

Russia
In Russia, only HTTP access is possible; HTTPS connections are blocked.[33][34] HTTP is not encrypted,
contrary to HTTPS, therefore agents listening on the network can read and modify in-transit the whole
communication, including the URL of the page requested, the returned content, and strings that identify the
sender device (such as the User-Agent and cookies).

Cloudflare DNS availability

Between May 2018[35] and May 2022,[36] Cloudflare's 1.1.1.1 DNS service would not resolve the
organizations web addresses, making it inaccessible to users of the Cloudflare DNS service. Both
organizations claimed the other was responsible for the issue. Cloudflare staff stated that the problem was
on archive.today's DNS infrastructure, as its authoritative nameservers return invalid records when
Cloudflare's network systems made requests to archive.today. archive.today countered that the issue was
due to Cloudflare requests not being compliant with DNS standards, as Cloudflare does not send EDNS
Client Subnet information in its DNS requests.[37][38] The issue was subsequently resolved.

See also
Internet portal

Digital preservation Wayback Machine

List of Web archiving initiatives Web archiving
Link rot WebCite
Perma.cc

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External links
Official website (https://archive.ph/)
Archive.is (https://archive-is.tumblr.com) on Tumblr
archive.today (https://twitter.com/archiveis) on Twitter
archive.today (https://wiki.archiveteam.org/index.php/Archive.today) at archiveteam.org
archive.ph/faq (https://web.archive.org/web/20221202200522/https://archive.ph/faq)

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