Questions tagged [archive]
Archive is for questions that deal with the archiving of Stack Exchange posts or data in formats other than SEDE (Data Explorer) or CC Dumps.
43 questions
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Cloudflare blocking Wayback Machine from archiving Stack Exchange questions
Recently, whenever I try to archive a question using the Wayback Machine, Cloudflare's been blocking the attempt: Given that any negative impact on the Wayback Machine's ability to archive SE pages ...
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Stop future internet-archived SE network pages from self-navigating to the live version of the snapshot page [closed]
When I save a snapshot of a network page on web.archive.org, the snapshot navigates to the live page. Like this. This also happens for snapshots saved before I started noticing this issue (like this). ...
starballMod
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0 answers
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Has Stack Exchange started restricting the archiving of user profile pages on the WayBack Machine?
Searching the Wayback Machine for URLs of user profile pages doesn't return some user pages, eg. my user profile pages on the SE sites that I have ever joined since August (when my account was ...
user1431429
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1 answer
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Cloudflare blocks Archive.org from saving network profiles
While saving a regular question page to Archive.org seems to work, when I try to save a network profile page, I'm either getting an error before saving the page "The capture failed because Save ...
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8 votes
1 answer
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License link on SEDE archive page points to wrong BY-SA version
On the Stack Exchange Data Explorer Help page, there is a link to the Internet Archive page. On the Stack Exchange Archive page, there is a section for licensing, with the following description: All ...
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122 votes
8 answers
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The Windows Phone SE site has been archived
TL;DR We are announcing that as of November 17, 2022, Windows Phone SE has been archived. Why now? The Stack Exchange network is a lot like a neighborhood. Each individual site makes up a house in ...
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18 votes
2 answers
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What happened to old postmortems on stackstatus.net?
In 2016, Stack Overflow had an outage due to catastrophic backtracking in a regex. There's a tweet about the outage, which links to the postmortem on stackstatus.net. That link is now dead. I've tried ...
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1 answer
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Should I download stackoverflow.com-PostHistory.7z to be able to use the StackedOff app?
I'm currently trying to use that app. StackedOff - an offline StackExchange indexer and search engine During an internet GB restriction on my side, the stackoverflow.com-PostHistory.7z file is 30 GB; ...
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11 votes
0 answers
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Where has the Stack Exchange official dump gone? archive.org/details/stackexchange [duplicate]
Why do I see this message after I only download StackOverflow-Posts.7z? I have tried to use a VPN, but I receive the same error message: This item is no longer available. Items may be taken down for ...
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-5 votes
2 answers
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Should Very Old Posts Be Archived On Some Sites? [duplicate]
I notice a lot when I search on, e.g., askubuntu.com or stackoverflow.com, sometimes I will get some very old answers that no longer apply to any environment currently being used by the majority of ...
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23 votes
1 answer
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Stack Exchange blocks web.archive.org from archiving questions in Wayback Machine
I recently tried to find out why Google doesn't index a question I asked on Bioinformatics (in beta). For fun, I tried archiving it on web.archive.org, but to my surprise SE blocked the request with ...
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22 votes
1 answer
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Data Dump in the Internet Archive is no longer available. What has happened?
The context I'm getting the following (see screenshot below) when visiting the Stack Exchange Data Dump in the Internet Archive. Here's the URL. This item is no longer available. Items may be taken ...
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12 votes
0 answers
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When a Stack Exchange website is shut down, please archive all its pages to the Wayback Machine
Feature request: When a Stack Exchange website is shut down, please save all its pages on https://web.archive.org/ (I don't mean as an XML dump, but each webpage) E.g., on https://web.archive.org/web/...
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-7 votes
1 answer
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Why does the Wayback Machine not show our text inside spoiler code? [closed]
See here. Why does the Wayback Machine not show our text inside spoiler code? Can't the SE team do something about it?
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5 votes
1 answer
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Which URL structure should I use when archiving questions in the Wayback Machine?
There are several URLs one could use to get to a question. For example: https://money.stackexchange.com/questions/124409/can-stocks-trade-at-negative-prices https://money.stackexchange.com/questions/...
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