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An update on Wayback Machine access

685 points · 362 comments · ChrisArchitect

  1. vlyan · · focus · HN ↗
    unrelated: if a website gets hit with "This URL has been excluded from the Wayback Machine", do existing snapshots get purged or may they still be preserved somewhere?
    1. msephton · · focus · HN ↗
      They get marked as inaccessible, but still exist in IA data
      1. vlyan · · focus · HN ↗
        is it possible to access somehow? it seems the site got excluded because of robots.txt set by some domain squatter, not manually.
        1. msephton · · focus · HN ↗
          Get a job at IA?
        2. alightsoul · · focus · HN ↗
          They have all the WARC file cataloged on their site outside the way back machine
    2. tech234a · · focus · HN ↗
      See also: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;wiki.archiveteam.org&#x2F;index.php&#x2F;List_of_websites_excluded_from_the_Wayback_Machine" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;wiki.archiveteam.org&#x2F;index.php&#x2F;List_of_websites_excl...

      Note that Archive Team is separate from the Internet Archive.

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