Internet Archive
Fewer than 5 people recommend it so far, so there's no written verdict. Here is what commenters said.
Why people recommend it
“Internet Archive; has the easy drag and drop of a folder and then type in some metadata for the entire release”
“will almost certainly outlive my site.”
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“ia search 'format:"Archive BitTorrent"' --itemlist > itemlist.txt”
Caveats and dissent
“absurdly awful archive.org front and backend”
“Internet Archive says: > We see the future of web archiving relying less on robots.txt”
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“Nonstarter for anything that you actually want to be preserved, especially anything controversial.”
“archive.org certainly isn't trustworthy with respect to US political influence.”
Often compared with
Who recommends it in their own words
Threads where it came up
- Wikipedia bans Archive.today after site executed DDoS and altered web captures 2 mentions
- Keep Our Servers Running 1 mention
- Alternative to Internet Archive 1 mention
- Ben Welsh made an index of all FiveThirtyEight articles on the Internet Archive 1 mention
- Show HN: A search engine for deleted YouTube videos (1.5B+ indexed since 2005) 1 mention
- Internet Archive Switzerland 1 mention
Also written as internetarchive. Data: internet-archive.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 12
“It's annoying how often archive.org blocks sites but they both complement each other very well.”
“Internet Archive; has the easy drag and drop of a folder and then type in some metadata for the entire release”
“will almost certainly outlive my site.”
“I put the url wayback machine at top of this post”
“absurdly awful archive.org front and backend”
This is a fun area, as the DMCA, for its flaws included a loophole for non-commercial distribution of live concert recordings. The only requirement is that it isn't an exact copy of a commercial release. I am not sure about the exact standards, as live albums often aren't the entire concert. Here are some other sites where people share these tapes. http://www.thetradersden.org/ https://sugarmegs.org/ http://www.dimea
“Internet Archive says: > We see the future of web archiving relying less on robots.txt”
“archive.org is great, but unreliable in ways that archive.is et al are not”
“Nonstarter for anything that you actually want to be preserved, especially anything controversial.”
“Archive.org is the archiver”
“ia search 'format:"Archive BitTorrent"' --itemlist > itemlist.txt”
“archive.org certainly isn't trustworthy with respect to US political influence.”