Show HN: Pagesnap – Take monthly screenshots of any webpage automatically

Re:Show HN: Pagesnap – Take monthly screenshots of any webpa... by ansimionescu on Wednesday February 26, 2014 @10:53AM (#7305629)

Reading some old Steve Yegge posts (e.g. https://sites.google.com/site/steveyegge2/five-essential-pho...) I started wondering about the feasibility of a web service that would automatically change links on articles older than say, 5 years, to the equivalent Web Archive/Google cache/other links.

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Re:Show HN: Pagesnap – Take monthly screenshots of any webpa... by toomuchtodo on Wednesday February 26, 2014 @12:02PM (#7306072)

Whenever I'm reading something on Reddit/HackerNews/etc that I think is going to be relevant later, I hit my Archive.org bookmarklet:

javascript:void(open('//web.archive.org/save/'+encodeURI(document.location)))

Which immediately saves the page to the Internet Archive. I haven't had time to look into if the Internet Archive has an API you can issue a URL to and it will fetch the content in the same way as above.

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Re:Show HN: Pagesnap – Take monthly screenshots of any webpa... by sitkack on Wednesday February 26, 2014 @12:21PM (#7306189)

I do the same thing, except as of yet, I can find no way to search old site grabs in the wayback machine. AFAIK, the content is not indexed. You have to know it is there.

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Re:Show HN: Pagesnap – Take monthly screenshots of any webpa... by toomuchtodo on Wednesday February 26, 2014 @12:30PM (#7306238)

This is a good point. Added to my research list.

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Re:Show HN: Pagesnap – Take monthly screenshots of any webpa... by sp332 on Wednesday February 26, 2014 @02:09PM (#7306882)

Wouldn't it just be javascript:void(open('//web.archive.org/web/*/encodeURI(document.location))) ?

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Re:Show HN: Pagesnap – Take monthly screenshots of any webpa... by toomuchtodo on Wednesday February 26, 2014 @02:31PM (#7307057)

Looks like it.

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Re:Show HN: Pagesnap – Take monthly screenshots of any webpa... by sp332 on Wednesday February 26, 2014 @11:21AM (#7305821)

You can do this for broken links on your own server using code from the Internet Archive https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/resurrect-pag...

You can do this with a client-side extension, like Resurrect Pages, which presents links to the Google cache (for recent sites under load) and the Internet Archive (for old links that have rotted). https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/resurrect-pag...

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