Archive.today

archive.today
Screenshot of the archive.today home page
Type of site
Web archiving
Available inMultilingual
URL
RegistrationNo
LaunchedMay 16, 2012 (2012-05-16)[2]

archive.today (or archive.is) is a web archiving site, founded in 2012, that saves snapshots on demand, and has support for JavaScript-heavy sites, such as Google Maps, and progressive web apps, such as X.[3] archive.today records two snapshots: one replicates the original webpage including any functional live links; the other is a screenshot of the page.[4]

The website does not provide information on the identity of the operator(s).[5]

  1. ^ @archiveis (29 October 2019). "a current list of all tor domains and clear net domains" (Tweet) – via Twitter.
  2. ^ Archive.is blog (18 February 2014). "When did the Archive-is site originally launch?". Tumblr. Archived from the original on 20 March 2021. Retrieved 10 April 2021.
  3. ^ Brinkmann, Martin (22 April 2015). "Create publicly available web page archives with Archive.is". Ghacks. Archived from the original on 12 April 2019. Retrieved 13 June 2015.
  4. ^ Brunelle, Justin F.; Kelly, Mat; Weigle, Michele C.; Nelson, Michael L. (25 January 2015). "The impact of JavaScript on archivability" (PDF). International Journal on Digital Libraries. 17 (2): 95–117. doi:10.1007/s00799-015-0140-8. S2CID 8433375. Archived (PDF) from the original on 27 May 2019.
  5. ^ Patokallio, Jani (5 August 2023). "archive.today: On the trail of the mysterious guerrilla archivist of the Internet". Gyrovague. Retrieved 1 January 2024.