Archiving
This page is a gem.
This article is meant to be about how an average 'teen can archive gems because nothing on the internet is permanent!
Local archiving
Truly nothing on the internet is permanent, not even archive sites. That's why it's important to save stuff (e.g. images, videos, and even entire webpages) to your local hard drive and to preferably make backups. You can use special software for this part.
- Ctrl+S on your browser - Ugly
- Singlefile extension (Chrome/Firefox) - Good overall. Saves the page as you see it in one .html file. Saves full images if you open them.
- Another option: >he doesn't have a custom-programmed live sharty-compatible vichan archiver >shiggy saving individual threads
- yt-dlp is a youtube-dl fork that allows you to save audio and video from YouTube and many other sites.
- ArchiveBox allows you to run your own website archiver locally (can also apparently import from browser bookmarks or history).
- Learn how to scrape websites with Python or whatever you selfish little fuck.
Lost archives
There have been two separate incidents in which where the sharty lost access to archives. The first was the logwarehouse on june 5th, which caused a massive loss of posts from late november 2022 to early june 2023. The second time was when the sharty was excluded from the wayback machine on december 13th after they were snitched on, unleashing a catastrophic loss of 10000+ archives, especially ones from the early days. Most of these were only archived on waybackmachine and are now permanently lost.
Shinny archive
Are you sure that it's just getting started? Because my peer-reviewed studies indicate that IT'S OVER.archive.soyjak.in is a replacement for now defunct Log Warehouse based on Hayden. While it is fast and simple, it unfortunately lacks any sort of search features. It is also recommended that you archive particularly important threads manually.
This archive is deprecated.
/chive/
Particularly important threads, like Q&As, are also sometimes archived on-site on /chive/.
Other archive sites
DO NOT exclusively use a single 'chive to save webpages. it’s recommended to ‘chive pages via multiple means. Two citations don't hurt.
https://web.archive.org/save'chive niggers excluded the 'sharty from the Wayback Machine. You can still link to individual media on this 'chive by uploading it as an individual video file, but this requires you to data-mine yourself and make an account.- https://archive.today
- https://ghostarchive.org (tranny archive)
Archive.today/Archive.ph
The Internet Archive excluded the 'sharty. This 'chive is a good alternative as it only removes 'p and pirated content.
Simple archive
To do a simple archive, simply paste the thread link into the field that reads "My url is alive and I want to archive its content" and then press the button that says "save". This alone is okay for things like history documentation, especially if a thread is looooong (like this one).
Archiving media
If you HATE being stuck with thumbnails, then you can open each original image as it appears in the thread in a new tab and archive each individual link it the same manner you would a thread. You can attempt to archive videos in the same way, but they will NOT embed on Archive.today and are NOT downloadable from the archive.
Video tutorial
If you found the text tutorial hard to follow, here's a video tutorial.
See also
