archive.is

Not to be confused with Internet Archive.

archive.is
Logo
Screenshot
Web address archive.is
Commercial No
Type of site
 Web archiving
Registration No
Available in Multilingual
Launched 2012 (2012)
Alexa rank
 Negative increase 4,767 (July 2015)[1]
Current status Online

archive.is (formerly archive.today) is a privately funded digital time capsule,[2] with data-centre located in Europe at Nord-Pas-de-Calais, France.[3] The archive runs Apache Hadoop and Apache Accumulo software. It retrieves one page at a time similar to WebCite, smaller than 50 MB each, but with Google Maps and Twitter included.

It captures textual content of web pages per request, as well as images, and content of frames, loaded or generated by Javascript on Web 2.0 sites without active elements or scripts. Screenshots are of 1024 × 768 pixels.[4][5]

Unlike crawlers such as Wayback Machine, archive.is only captures individual pages in response to explicit user requests, and so does not obey the robots exclusion standard.[6] Because of this, website owners cannot unilaterally remove content at will, thus it is a "permanent" archive.[7]

Since July 2013, archive.is supports the Memento Project application programming interface (API),[8] and Firefox[9] and Chrome[10] Plugins.[8][11]

Use cases

The archive is used by some authors and hacktivists:

Worldwide availability

On July 21, 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.[15] Access was restored in spring 2016.

The whole website is not reachable also from Kazakhstan[16] and Iran. In Russia, only HTTP access is possible; HTTPS connections are blocked.[17][18] In Mainland China, HTTPS access is possible and HTTP access blocked.

In February 2016 domain registrar OnlineNIC blocked the domain "archive.today" which only served as redirect to the main domain "archive.is".[19][20]

See also

Notes

  1. ↑ "Archive.is Site Info". Site Info. Alexa Internet. Retrieved 14 June 2015.
  2. ↑ Martin Brinkmann (22 Apr 2015). "Create publicly available web page archives with Archive.is". Ghacks. Retrieved 13 Jun 2015.
  3. ↑ "Archive.is status". Stat Radar. Archived from the original on 27 July 2013. Retrieved 8 May 2013.
  4. ↑ "archive.today – webpage capture". archive.today. Archived from the original on 28 June 2012. Retrieved 8 May 2013.
  5. ↑ "archive.today FAQ". archive.today. Archived from the original on 20 April 2013. Retrieved 8 May 2013.
  6. ↑ Dascalescu, Dan (18 February 2013). "Web page archiving – Dan Dascalescu's Wiki (review)". Wiki.dandascalescu.com. Retrieved 3 October 2013.
  7. 1 2 "Dear GamerGate: Please Stop Stealing Our Shit". Motherboard.
  8. 1 2 Nelson, Michael L. (9 July 2013). "Archive.is Supports Memento". Research and Teaching Updates. Web Science and Digital Libraries Research Group at Old Dominion University. Archived from the original on 27 July 2013. Retrieved 17 September 2013.
  9. ↑ "Archiveror". mozilla.org.
  10. ↑ "archive.is Button". google.com.
  11. ↑ "archive.is" Memento Protocol Information. Memento Development Group. Retrieved 17 September 2013.
  12. ↑ "View Julian Assange – When Google Met WikiLeaks.pdf – PDFy – Instant PDF Host". pdf.yt.
  13. ↑ "Julian Assange – Google Is Not What It Seems". wikileaks.org.
  14. ↑ "US Army Official Website Hacked — Syrian Electronic Army". 14 June 2015. Archived from the original on 21 July 2015.
  15. ↑ Lapintie, Lassi (22 July 2015). "Suomalaisilta estettiin haktivistien suosimalla verkkosivulla käynti" [Finns' access to website used by hacktivists blocked]. Iltalehti (in Finnish). Retrieved 4 March 2016.
  16. ↑ "Alexey Chernyavskiy". Twitter.
  17. ↑ "Роскомнадзор заблокировал сервис archive..., хранящий копии веб-сайтов". 2016-01-29. Retrieved 2016-01-30.
  18. ↑ "Russia Blocks Another Archive Site Because It Might Contain Old Pages About Drugs". Techdirt.
  19. ↑ http://blog.archive.is/post/138982909006/domain-problems-again
  20. ↑ "archive.is". Twitter.

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