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archive.today is an on-demandweb archiving service athttps://archive.today. A web archiving service allows Wikipedia editors to reducelink rot by preserving a copy of an onlinesource that can be accessed if the original page is moved, changes, or disappears. Not all web pages can be archived using archive.today.[1]
archive.today can archiveHTML web pages,style sheets,JavaScript, anddigital images.
Besideshttps://archive.today, the site is accessible through other domains, includinghttps://archive.is, .li, .fo, .ph, .vn and .md
The owner of the service has requested Wikipedia to always use the "archive.today" domain[citation needed] – it is a gateway that redirects to one of the final destinations (.is, .li, .fo, .ph, .vn and .md) based on load and availability. It provides archive.today flexibility to dynamically redirect traffic to other domains/servers.
Other web archiving services areWayback Machine and at least20 other providers in use on Wikipedia. Similar to archive.today, the Wayback Machine takes snapshots of webpages at certain times, as well as user-initiated on-demand archiving called "Save Page Now" (SPN).[2][3] Wayback and archive.today operate differently, and certain pages can be archived by one but not the other. Wayback is used in over 80% of instances.
archive.today removes archived pages by request of copyright holders per the U.S. DMCA;[4] requests can be made with the "Report abuse" link on archive.today archived pages. Re-hosting U.S. copyrighted material without permission may be a violation of the U.S.Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) – for this reason, to avoid implicating Wikipedia in violations of copyright laws and incurring DMCA take-down requests, archive.today should be used with some caution regarding U.S.-copyrighted content.
The history of robots.txt and archive providers is longer and more complex than this essay's focus. Briefly,robots exclusion standard was never designed for use by archive providers. The use of robots.txt for this purpose is essentially a hack that led to unintended consequences, for example domains that are hijacked or change ownership with the new domain owner adding a robots.txt which triggers archive providers to block the display of archives from the original site, even though the old site never had a robots.txt. Nevertheless, some archive providers agreed to use robots.txt as a method for end-users to signal when they didn't want their pages publicly archived and/or displayed (if already archived). archive.today does not abide by the robots exclusion standard.[5] Wayback Machine formerly[6] used it to avoid archiving material that site owners do not want archived.[7][8]
Note that it can sometimes be a good idea to add multiple archive providers for key material. Multiple links can be added to Wikipedia using{{webarchive}}.
There are several ways to submit a web page to archive.today for archiving. For new users, the website form is suggested. The other methods are better suited to those who use archive.today regularly.
This method is easy to use. It requires going to the archive.today website to archive a web page.
https://archive.today/, enter the URL of the web page you wish to archive into the "My url is alive and I want to archive its content" field (the red one).Android appShare2Archive can access archive.today by means of aShare action. When viewing aWeb page in an AndroidWeb browser (e.g.,Chrome,Edge,Firefox), Share it to Share2Archive, and the page archive will open in thedefault Web browser (not necessarily the same Web browser). If the page is already archived, the archived copy will open; otherwise, a new archive of the page will be initiated.
Browser extensions that can archive and search archive.today, by means ofToolbar icon andContext menu, are available for:
Note: Bookmarklets have been deprecated in favor ofBrowser extensions.
Abookmarklet is a web browser bookmark that performs a certain function. The archive.today bookmarklet, when clicked, takes the URL of the page you are currently looking at and submits it to archive.today for archiving. This method is straightforward to set up, and is convenient. It is recommended that you have your Bookmarks/Favorites bar visible or at least have your bookmarks accessible within a click or two. This method only allows you to archive the page you are currently viewing. To archive a different web page you will have to use another method.
archive.today).#"h-Firefox_smart_keyword-How_to_archive">Firefox smart keyword[edit]Firefox smart keywords are commonly used to perform searches through the Firefox address bar or to open a bookmark by typing a keyword into the Firefox address bar. Here we are going to use a smart keyword to submit a URL to archive.today for archiving. The key steps are:
https://archive.today/?run=1&url=%s.a.Below are the detailed steps. Toset up the smart keyword:
☰ in the top right of the window, then "Bookmarks", then "Manage bookmarks").archive.today).https://archive.today/?run=1&url=%s into the Location field.%s stands for the string that follows the keyword.a) and this keyword must not already be used for another bookmark.Touse the smart keyword,
a" in the above example) followed by a space (" ") in front of the URL of the web page you would like to archive in the Firefox address bar. (e.g. if you are using "a" as your keyword, the text in the address bar would bea http://www.example.com/pageyouwantoarchive.html).Although this is created through Chrome's search engine feature, this functions just like a smart keyword in Firefox. This method is moderately simple to set up.
archive.today).wc).https://archive.today/?run=1&url=%s& into the third field.wc" in the above example) followed by a space (" ") in front of the URL of the web page you would like to archive in the Chrome address bar (e.g. If you are using "a" as your keyword, the text in the address bar would bea http://www.example.com/pageyouwantoarchive.html).Links archived with archive.today should be given inlong link format, which you can find from the underlined "share" link near the top(left of "download .zip", "report bug or abuse", "Buy me a coffee"). (SeeWikipedia talk:Using archive.today § RfC: Should we use short or long format URLs?)
An example long format:
https://archive.today/YYYYMMDDhhmmss/http://www.example.comThis archive URL can be inserted into thearchiveurl= and its supportingarchivedate= andurl-status= parameters in any of thecitation templates. If the original URL isno longer accessible, theurl-status parameter value should be set todead. If the original URL is still accessible, theurl-status parameter value should be set tolive.
<ref>{{cite web |last= |first= |title= |work= |publisher= |date= |url= |archive-url= |archive-date= |url-status= }}</ref>.
Web pages previously archived through archive.today are accessible through a searchable database. Users may search by URL, domain or theirwildcards.
Therequest for comment (RfC) held atWikipedia:Archive.is RFC 4 ended in June 2016 with consensus to remove archive.is from the blacklist. The previous consensus, established earlier atWikipedia:Archive.is RFC 3, was to blacklist links to archive.today, as soon as all the existing links were removed.Wikipedia:Archive.is RFC 5 began in February 2026.
A page may not be archived for a number of reasons. archive.today does not support archivingPortable Document Format files, audio and video. The page may be too big (there is 50mb limit for a single page). The content may be inaccessible from the archive.today network (this is particularly likely if you are attempting to access subscription based content which your institution subscribes to on its users' behalf). Also, the content may be unreadable by the archive.today archiver (too complex JavaScript based pages can crash its browser or be executed too long time, or ones involving browser checks sometimes cause our archive engine to fail). … Pages which violate our hoster's rules (cracks, porn, etc) may be deleted. Also, completely empty pages (or pages which have nothing but text like "502 Server Timeout") may be deleted.
Save Page Now: Put a URL into the form, press the button, and we save the page. You will instantly have a permanent URL for your page. Please note,this method only saves a single page, not the whole site.