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.
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Stop future internet-archived SE network pages from self-navigating to the live version of the snapshot page
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).
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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 ...
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The Users pages using a query string are redirect on the Way Back Machine. What are the reasons for this?
Questions can be archived on Wayback Machine, but not sites' Users pages. Wayback Machine shows that the crawler was redirected. Is this by design?
If this is by design, could it be possible for the ...
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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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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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The Windows Phone SE site has been archived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We are announcing that as of November 17, 2022, Windows Phone SE has been archived.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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Is there any plan for archiving the Stack Exchange network similar to GitHub's Arctic Code Vault?
GitHub announced in mid-November 2019 about their Code Vault Program. They plan to capture a snapshot of every active public repository on 02/02/2020 and preserve that data in the Arctic Code Vault.
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The Great Meta Tire Fire of 2019: is anybody keeping receipts?
While CMs have been remarkably liberal in leaving even content extremely critical of Stack Overflow untouched here on Meta since Monica was removed as a moderator, it is not completely unreasonable to ...
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Automatically have links archived in the Wayback Machine
In a recent (now deleted) question, I proposed having a little reminder of some sort to archive links that are put in questions and answers, as they can die and much of the time there is no archive of ...
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Archive Stack Exchange posts (or make them private)
Is there a way to archive posts on Stack Exchange?
I want them to be private.
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Don’t rate limit Archive.org as much
Sometimes an Archive.org capture shows too many requests instead of the site:
https://web.archive.org/web/20181202194435/https://english.stackexchange.com/
I think (but I don’t have a link) that this ...
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How can I download the Stack Exchange data dump from archive.org through the command line?
I am trying to download the Stack Exchange data dump from archive.org through the command line using the internetarchive python package developed by archive.org, as follows:
pip install ...
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Hosting all Stack Exchange data dumps on archive.org
Currently Stack Exchange only hosts the most recent dump on archive.org (Where are the Stack Exchange data dumps?).
The previous dumps are only available through torrents: All Stack Exchange data ...
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robots.txt was changed to block saving hot questions page in Wayback Machine, why?
Until yesterday it was possible to save hot questions page in Wayback Machine as discussed eg here.
Today robots.txt appears to be changed to block this.
I wonder what could be reasons for such a ...
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How do I retain my contributions to Stack Exchange?
I'd like to retain my contributions to various Stack Exchange web sites.
It appears that one-too-many insightful comments I make, which I spend a significant time writing, and would like to refer to ...
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Are closed sites ever archived?
A site may be on a very specialized topic, and may open and get some good questions and answers but not enough to satisfy the SE rules for keeping a site open.
For example, on the Podcast #68 blog ...
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Should academic threads on Stack Exchange get DOIs and be permanently archived?
Josh from The Winnower (thewinnower.com) here. I wanted to reach out and see if SE Mathematica, Academia, Chemistry, History of Science and Math, and Overflow would be interested in permanently ...
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How about archiving deleted posts in Wayback Machine?
This idea was initially inspired by deleting April Fools' questions post, where funny (sometimes useful) posts (exempt toaster) are get removed from the sites, so only high-rep users can access them.
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Update frequency of SE Data Dump on Web Archive
Since there's is no clear indication of the data-dump date, a visit to the Stack Exchange Data Dump on the Web Archive is dated May 2, 2014:
How frequently is this archive updated?
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Archiving links referenced in questions
Web pages aren't designed to always be static and sometimes links will be removed.
For example,
This question refers to "P. 125 of these notes".
Unfortunately the link has been removed. Whilst in ...
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The Most Wonderous Hall of Hats
How about we create some pages of past leaderboards for the Winterbash Hat event?
It would be a permanent archive so we could always view the past stats for Winterbash (since it now seems like it ...
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Create a "Best of Stack Overflow" section on Meta
Yesterday, I was browsing some awesome sites that resemble http://meta.stackoverflow.com, you know the likes of 4chan, Reddit and Craigslist. I was mysteriously guided to a place called "best of xxx" (...
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Data Dump Vs. API [duplicate]
I was looking around the API and felt guilty in setting up a nasty code in order to build a datadump. Just to check before doing it, there is no Stack archives available ? something like githubarchive....
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Howto view deleted posts <10k rep [duplicate]
Have you ever wanted to view a deleted question even if you don't have the required 10k rep for it?
All you need is the link:
Take for instance a question from the deleted meta questions archive ...
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What is the plan for Stackoverflow to version the questions? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
What to do about deprecated questions & answers?
I feel most answers on Stackoverflow are now outdated. Technology is moving at a lightning pace and I feel that there ...
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Keeping dead beta sites as "archive sites"
This is not a duplicate of Keeping closed sites in suspended animation: a modest proposal because the main point of that is to allow for a process in Area 51 to "reopen" a closed site, while this one ...
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Unofficial Stack Overflow deleted question archive now available [closed]
With a modified version of my so-static tools, along with all the historical data dumps, I've made an archive of all deleted questions (and their answers) from Stack Overflow.
The site is no longer ...
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What is the easiest way for me to download all my questions+answers across all Stack Exchange sites? [duplicate]
How do I download all of my questions and answers across all of the sites in the network?
And is there a way that could preserve special LaTeX formatting?
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Should we be using archive.org links to replace dead ones?
Someone just edited an old answer (from 2009), removing links to a 3-part article which did go dead (the whole site seems to give PHP errors now).
I happened to see this in the edit approval process ...
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The Lost Worlds of the Reversal Badge
I love the gold Reversal Badge
An outstanding answer to a bad question is something not seen on a daily basis.
I enjoyed reading those answers, and I was even able to provide one.
But the ...
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Set up an archive for legendary deleted questions
A number of highly upvoted "fun" questions were recently deleted.
Examples:
The "Wedding Cake" question (10k+)
The "Worst UI" question (10k+)
The original Boat Programming question (Deleted ages ...
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Migration of old information to Stack Overflow
I regularly get information from an unrelated mailing list about Stata. I would love to propose that the community to switch to the Stack Overflow Stata tag. I Statalist is old and archaic and harder ...
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Deleted Meta Questions Archive
Some keep deleting questions with a lot of discussion, both relevant and/or historical, and we can't search on deleted questions. Some of them are locked so that they cannot be undeleted, so I'm ...
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Archive Questions
How about we create a new status, Archived.
A moderator could Archive a question. This would allow rep from the question to still be counted, and a special search 'isarchived' could be used to find ...
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