archive.today
Free web archiving service that saves snapshots of web pages on demand.
HN commenters use it mainly to read paywalled news articles123, often through a quick address-bar redirect to the newest snapshot.4 The most common complaints are reliability and CAPTCHA problems56, including rejected CAPTCHA solutions over Tor and blocking by DNS services like NextDNS.78
Why people recommend it
Paywall access · 3
Commenters rely on it to read paywalled news articles, sometimes calling it the only real option.
“usually I get free content from archive.is on news articles”
“The only real option is archive.is/ph”
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“I use the Bangs feature to open paywalled links with archive.is with !a.”
Quick redirects · 1
A browser bang shortcut can redirect any link to its newest archived copy, which usually already exists.
“I use the Bangs feature to open paywalled links with archive.is with !a.”
No tracking · 1
Suggested as an alternative to gift links with no tracking and no JavaScript.
“Alternative to "gift link", archive.is No tracking, no Javascript”
Regular use · 2
Some commenters say they use it regularly and are fond of it.
“I love archive.today and all their subdomains. I use it regularly”
Caveats and dissent
Reliability · 1
One commenter reports frequent reliability problems, including its CAPTCHA going down after hitting Google's usage limit.
“now that archive.today is having a lot of reliability problems”
Tor CAPTCHA · 1
Google reCAPTCHA reportedly rejects valid solutions submitted via Tor.
“Archive.is uses Google's Recaptcha, which for some reason rejects valid solutions submitted via Tor.”
DNS blocking · 1
It is blocked by NextDNS and similar services, causing access problems for years.
“I love archive.today and all their subdomains. I use it regularly”
DDoS controversy · 1
One regular user says they were seriously disappointed to learn of a DDoS event tied to the site.
“I love archive.today and all their subdomains. I use it regularly”
Threads where it came up
- An update on Wayback Machine access 1 mention
- Your intellectual fly is open when you use an LLM to author a post (2025) 1 mention
- Kagi added a setting for removing paywalled links from search results 1 mention
- The Graph That Should Be Front-Page News 1 mention
- Apple Sues OpenAI, Alleging It Stole Trade Secrets 1 mention
- 'Sloppenheimer:' Amazon Employees Mock the Company's AI on Slack 1 mention
Also written as archive.today, Archive.is. Data: archive-today.json. Quotes are verbatim; the verdict and theme labels are written by a model from these comments, and every clause links to its sources.
All comments 8
“I use them.”
“now that archive.today is having a lot of reliability problems”
“I use the Bangs feature to open paywalled links with archive.is with !a.”
“I love archive.today and all their subdomains. I use it regularly”
“Alternative to "gift link", archive.is No tracking, no Javascript”
“The only real option is archive.is/ph”
“Archive.is uses Google's Recaptcha, which for some reason rejects valid solutions submitted via Tor.”
“usually I get free content from archive.is on news articles”