Archive.ph

archive.ph, also known as archive.today, is a web archiving site, founded in 2012, that saves snapshots on demand, and has support for JavaScript-heavy sites such as Google Maps, and Twitter. archive.ph records two snapshots: one replicates the original webpage including any functional live links; the other is a screenshot of the page.https://web.archive.org/web/20190527064810/https://www.cs.odu.edu/~mweigle/papers/brunelle-ijdl16.pdf
==Background and Features==
Archive.ph can capture individual pages in response to explicit user requests. Since its beginning, it has supported crawling pages with URLs containing the now-deprecated hash-bang fragment (#!).
Archive.ph records only text and images, excluding XML, RTF, spreadsheet (xls or ods) and other non-static content. However, videos for certain sites, like X (formerly Twitter), are saved. It keeps track of the history of snapshots saved, requesting confirmation before adding a new snapshot of an already saved page.
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.https://web.archive.org/web/20220127171624/https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LK_bp9_ZyQs
Web pages can be duplicated from archive.today to web.archive.org as second-level backup, but archive.today does not save its snapshots in WARC format. The reverse—from web.archive.org to archive.today—is also possible, but the copy usually takes more time than a direct capture.https://archive.today/20130520191911/https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia
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.https://archive.today/search/?q=insite%3A+http%3Aen.wikipedia.org+
Once a web page is archived, it cannot be deleted directly by any Internet user. Removing advertisements, popups or expanding links from archived pages is possible by asking the owner to do it on his blog.https://web.archive.org/web/20130926093655/https://blog.archive.is/post/41395737942/how-can-i-delete-an-archived-pagehttps://web.archive.org/web/20220429215629/https://blog.archive.today/post/677427547064156160/could-you-expand-17wus-and-links-under-same
While saving a dynamic list, archive.ph search box shows only a result that links the previous and the following section of the list (e.g. 20 links for page).https://web.archive.org/web/20190323131756/https://www.worldcat.org/search?q=au%3A%22thomas+aquinas%22&fq=&dblist=638&start=21&qt=page_number_link The other web pages saved are filtered, and sometimes may be found by one of their occurrences.https://web.archive.org/web/20220127171624/https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LK_bp9_ZyQs
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.
==History==
Archive.ph was founded on May 16, 2012https://archive.today/20210320075425/https://blog.archive.today/post/77015559437/when-did-the-archive-is-site-originally-launch with the main goal is to archive any pages of any websites. The site originally branded itself as archive.ph , but in May 2015, changed the primary mirror to archive.is.https://web.archive.org/web/20150601001607/http://blog.archive.is/post/118010496181/why-did-you-change-the-url-back-from-archive-today
In July 2013, Archive.ph began supporting the API of the Memento Project.
In January 2019, it began to deprecate the archive.is domain in favor of other mirrors.https://web.archive.org/web/20190106000101/https://twitter.com/archiveis/status/1081276424781287427
As of 2021, archive.ph had saved about 500 million pages.https://web.archive.org/web/20230813201525/https://gyrovague.com/2023/08/05/archive-today-on-the-trail-of-the-mysterious-guerrilla-archivist-of-the-internet/
==References==
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