Web archive
The Web archive (Wayback machine, Internet Archive) is the frontend of the Internet Achive Bot, an American worldwide electronic archive of the history of individual webserver pages.
Even when a webserver, or page, disappears its historical content is eternally archived.
It can be used as a persistent reference for Wikipedia statements, or historical Wikipedia articles.
Functionality
[edit]Search
[edit]- https://web.archive.org
- https://web.archive.org/web/*/http://ontdekpajotzenne.be/listings/sint-jozefkerk/
- https://web.archive.org/web/20180907193856/http://ontdekpajotzenne.be/listings/sint-jozefkerk/
Force update
[edit]- https://web.archive.org/save/http://ontdekpajotzenne.be/listings/sint-jozefkerk/ (will always fail in this case; the domain ontdekpajotzenne.be does not exist any more)
Related solutions
[edit]Institutions can archive a web site via https://wayback.archive-it.org/ e.g. https://literairgent.be
Known problems
[edit]- By default error pages are also logged
- you should either disable saving error pages, or (backwards) search for a successful web scan (validate the archive page link before using on e.g. Wikipedia)