7. Wayback Machine
Wayback Machine is a digital archive of the World Wide Web, created and maintained by the Internet Archive, a non-profit organization based in San Francisco, California. It captures and saves billions of web pages over time, creating a timeline of the evolution of the internet. Users can browse archived versions of websites and web pages by entering a URL or search term, and then selecting a date and time from the available snapshots.
- Install the new Chrome extension
- Sign in through the arrow button
- Archive pages through SAVE Page NOW button
- Take screenshots; oldest and Newest button show archives in respective orders
- Check Calendar to identify a page's full history
- URLs can help you get the list of all archive links on domain
- Site Map gives you a visual breakdown of the data on site
- Always check your settings so you can see which page to save or not
- Alert if context is available will include fact checks as WM is incorporating IFCN data
- With General settings,you can automatically save any page that you browse
- You can also compare archived versions of the same pages
- pull the data directly, here are the links with Osint example:
- https://web.archive.org/cdx/search/cdx?url=osintme.com
- https://web.archive.org/*/www.osintme.com/*
The API service
- It replays different elements of a page especially images and also Java scripts
- There is a URL corresponding to each images with a time stamp
- Time Stamp gives you the recent archived versions of the image
- Different timestamps for different elements during replay gives you an idea that text maybe the same but images maybe different
About this capture
- Open Google Drive and open a Spreadsheet
- In the Google Sheet create a single column that lists URLs you want to archive
- Next through a link you can connect your Google account to archive.org account
- Next, click on Archive URLs
- Now you can insert a link to your Google Sheet aontaining URLs to want to archive
- Shares examples of NYT