All blog posts, pages, and linked items are archived using whichever of the following resources I can get to work. Due to inconsistency in availability and imperfection of human memory, not everything is always backed up, but I try my best.
(There is also an incomplete and outdated copy of the whole blog at tangentfoxy.github.io/blog with its source on GitHub, that may or may not get updated in the future.)
Webpage Archives
These are the only publicly usable archives I am currently aware of. If you know of others, please leave a comment!
- Internet Archive: The most well-funded and reliable service. Unfortunately, the Internet Archive is continually at-risk from those who would rather you not know their history.
- Archive.today: Run by a single person unfortunately, but has been very reliable (up until it suddenly wasn’t, possibly due to increased usage after Internet Archive went down). (Wikipedia has a list of alternate domain names.)
- Ghostarchive: Doesn’t support using a bookmarklet, so its a little more difficult to use. (Doesn’t archive PDFs.) Has been more reliable than Archive.today in my experience thus far, but has also had alarming downtimes in ability to create new archives..
- FreezePage: I consider it unacceptable because it requires logging in at least once a month or paying money, and requires manually sharing links to archived pages, but it is at least a usable option.
Note that because Reddit’s modern design doesn’t work well with archiving software, any link to Reddit I’ve archived is using old.reddit.com, which thankfully still exists and allows a much cleaner and easier to read experience.
Video Archives
Unfortunately, video archival is much more expensive, so there is only one public example I know of. All other links here are to tools for you to archive things personally.
- PreserveTube: (Public) A YouTube-specific video archiver.
- Grayjay: (Android) Primarily a YouTube player, but allows downloading of videos as well. (NewPipe also exists, but I haven’t tried it.)
- YouTube Browser Players: Invidious, Piped. While these are not for archiving, sometimes they allow downloads.
- yt-dlp: A command-line tool that forms the basis of most YouTube archival tools.
- ytdl-sub: A command-line Python script for automating yt-dlp downloads, and integrating the downloaded content with popular selfhosted players/libraries. (I also made a Lua script to make simple usage easier.)
- Selfhosted: Pinchflat, Tube Archivist, TubeSync (this one is in early development). I have not tried any of these as I personally use a PeerTube instance (PeerTube is primarily designed as an alternative to YouTube, but can download and automate downloading of YouTube videos).
Ebook & Other Archives
While I’ve been looking for ways to archive my live web content, it’s also important to acknowledge that archives of other data types are also super important. Note: Due to the nature of these services, it is not uncommon for their domain names to change due to legal issues. This is just a small list of places I’ve discovered while trying to find website archiving services:
- Anna’s Archive: Ebooks, scientific papers. Provides mirroring for Sci-Hub, LibGen, Z-Lib, DuXiu, and “more”. (For Z-Lib, it gets “shut down” so often that there’s a website dedicated to listing its current domain(s).)
- Library Genesis: Ebooks. (Mirrored by Anna’s Archive.)
- The Eye: A curated database of … I don’t even know. It just caught my eye because it’s at least something, and something that managed to be useful enough to be sued by a church.
Self-Hosted Archival
This is not a comprehensive list. I suggest looking at awesome-selfhosted for more.
- ArchiveBox: Webpage archival. Your own personal version of Internet Archive / Archive.today.