Reviews for Web Archives
Web Archives by Armin Sebastian
20 reviews
- Rated 4 out of 5by Firefox user 17751335, 4 months ago
- Rated 4 out of 5by Korwin, 10 months agoПлюсы: открытый код, удобная настройка, множество ресурсов архивированных вебстраниц. Минусы: не отображает контекстное меню у ссылок в закладках, несовместим с Containerise by kintesh.
- Rated 4 out of 5by Firefox user 14470796, 10 months ago
- Rated 4 out of 5by Firefox user 17411074, 10 months ago
- Rated 4 out of 5by Firefox user 14389981, a year ago
- Rated 4 out of 5by KirkH420, a year agoIt works to some extent, I like it's ability to open all the different web archives with one click.
There is a bit of an issue with some archives. For URLs: When I click on an URL to a Microsoft.com out-dated page, the Wayback Machine will take me to Microsoft's Error404 landing page.
This URL for example:
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=45885
When passed to this add-on, the Wayback Machine converts it to this page:
https://web.archive.org/web/20220328035922/https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/404Error.aspx
*It's landing on a Wayback Redirect page. After 5 seconds, the page gets redirected to another page.
We can see in the date is /2022-03-28-03:59:22/ and this is one of the newest snapshots created by the Archive. It's unfortunate, but The Wayback Machine continues to create snapshots of these 404 pages.
So someone might say, why don't you just use the Wayback Date-toolbar to turn back to an older date? The problem is, since your tool is finding the newest snapshots, it's returning these 404 pages. This changes the URL that we're searching for.
The API docs for the Wayback Machine says "timestamp is the timestamp to look up in Wayback. If not specified, the most recenty available capture in Wayback is returned."
The correct way to use the API is to create a link like this:
http://archive.org/wayback/available?url=https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=45885×tamp=20010101
*This will return a .json that contains a working "closest snapshot" URL and you can click on it.
It appears that this add-on is not using the API but is trying to manipulate URLs instead. This wont work well.
If you add the "×tamp=20010101" key, it will enable the "Return closest snapshot to the date 2001-01-01" rather than return the newest available snapshot. The downside is, you'll need to write something that will handle the .json API return data. (which shouldn't be very hard)
Doing it that way will ALWAYS return a website. Not those Error404 landing pages. - Rated 4 out of 5by Sloping, a year ago
- Rated 4 out of 5by Firefox user 14604821, a year ago
- Rated 4 out of 5by Петр, a year ago
- Rated 4 out of 5by Firefox user 14949259, 2 years ago
- Rated 4 out of 5by Drew PeaCOCK, 2 years ago
- Rated 4 out of 5by Firefox user 16335693, 3 years ago
- Rated 4 out of 5by Firefox user 16039117, 3 years ago
- Rated 4 out of 5by gage, 3 years ago
- Rated 4 out of 5by Firefox user 14276680, 5 years agodoes what it says on the tin. would be perfect if we could save in one click as well.
- Rated 4 out of 5by ziggy, 5 years agoVery useful to have. Archive.org is by far the most useful choice out of the bunch. Never really had much luck with the others. Great little tool that comes in handy here and there for me.
Best for being able to view dead Google results when you still want to see what's there (or what used to be). - Rated 4 out of 5by grahamperrin, 5 years ago