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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. Wayback
Machine formerly used it to avoid archiving material that site owners do not want archived.
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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
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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).
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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
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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
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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:
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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.
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the bookmarklet, simply click on it when you are on a web page you wish to archive. It initiates the archiving process. When the process is complete (it usually takes 5–15 seconds) you will be sent to the archived
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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.
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