Wikipedia:List of web archives on Wikipedia
Web Archives on Wikipedia
List of known web archive services in-use on English Wikipedia. Sorted roughly by number of uses from most to least. Wayback Machine is about 80% of the total. Data initially compiled by User:GreenC as of March 2017, updates and corrections welcome.
Archive services Edit
Wayback Machine Domain: archive.org, waybackmachine.org
Hostname: <none>, web, wayback, liveweb, www, www.web, classic-web, web-beta, replay, replay.web, web.wayback
Path: <none>, web
Timestamp: Number 4-14 digits. Or "*". Or "?". Or combination. May also contain trailing chars like "re_". If timestamp missing returns best available page.
Examples: Archive.today Domain: .today, .is, .fo, .li, .vn, .md, .ph
Hostname: <none>, www
Path: <none>
Timestamp: 4-14 digits; or digits + characters (see example)
Examples: WebCite Deprecated - no longer accepting new archive requests, old archives still availableHostname: <none>, www
Path: base62ID, query, cache, getfile.php, <number>
Timestamp: None. Uses &date=2012-06-01+21:40:03 in query?url ; the short ID is base62 which converts to unix time
Examples: National Archives UK Domain: nationalarchives.gov.uk
Hostname: webarchive, yourarchives
Path: <none>
Timestamp: 4-14 digits
Examples: NLA Australia Domain: nla.gov.au
Hostname: pandora, trove, webarchive, content.webarchive
Path: see examples. The /pan/ regex should be /pan/[0-9]{4,7}/
Timestamp: Three types (20120727-0512, S2000-Dec-5, 20120326012340)
Examples: Note: Not to be confused with non-webarchive URLs that appear similar:
Note: No memento access Freezepage.com Domain: freezepage.com
Hostname: <none>, www
Path: <none>
Timestamp: <none> (only available via web scrape)
Examples:
Note: If the account ID which created the snapshot expires for lack of activity (no login to freezepage), the snapshot is deleted from freezepage.com
Note: No memento access Library of Congress Domain: loc.gov
Hostname: webarchive
Path: all, lcwa####
Timestamp: 4-14 digits
Examples: Arquivo.pt (Portugal) Domain: arquivo.pt
Hostname: <none>
Path: wayback, wayback/wayback
Timestamp: 4-14 digits
Examples: Stanford Edu Domain: stanford.edu
Hostname: swap, sul-swap-prod
Path: <none>
Timestamp: 4-14 digits
Examples: Archive-It Domain: archive-it.org
Hostname: wayback
Path: all, a 4 digit number
Timestamp: 4-14 digits
Examples: BibAlex Domain: bibalex.org:80
Hostname: web.archive, web.petabox
Path: web
Timestamp: 4-14 digits
Examples: WikiWix Domain: wikiwix.com
Hostname: archive
Path: cache
Timestamp: 4-14 digits
Examples:
Note: Does not support https. Does not support Memento
Note: API access added in March 2018. By appending &apiresponse=1 to the end of the URL. (http://archive.wikiwix.com/cache/?url=http://www.linterweb.fr&apiresponse=1 ). This may require encoding of any other & in the url= section
Note: Supports &title argument at end of URL not part of the source URL (similar to &apiresponse). Gives the name of the Wikipedia article the link is being used in (optional). National Archives US Domain: webharvest.gov
Hostname: <none>
Path: <variable>
Timestamp: 4-14 digits
Examples: National Archives Iceland Domain: vefsafn.is
Hostname: wayback
Path: wayback
Timestamp: 4-14 digits
Examples: Europa Archives (Ireland)
Deceased . In May 2018 all archived moved to collections.internetmemory.org then as of September 2018, all archives were moved again to Archive-It [1] Domain: europarchive.org
Hostname: collection
Path: nli
Timestamp: 4-14 digits
Move example: Perma CC Domain: perma-archives.org, perma.cc
Hostname: <none>
Path: <none>, warc
Timestamp: 4-14 digits for perma-archives.org, or snapshot ID
Examples: Proni Web Archives
Deceased . As of October 2018, all archives moved to Archive-It [2] Domain: proni.gov.uk
Hostname: webarchive
Path: <none>
Timestamp: 4-14 digits
Examples: http://webarchive.proni.gov.uk/20111213123846/http
Parliament UK Domain: parliament.uk
Hostname: webarchive
Path: <none>
Timestamp: 4-14 digits
Examples: UK Web Archive (British Library) Domain: webarchive.org.uk
Hostname: www
Path: wayback/archive
Timestamp: 4-14 digits with possibility of "mp_" at end
Examples: Canada
Deceased . As of May 2018 all archives moved to webarchive.bac-lac.gc.ca [3] Domain: collectionscanada.gc.ca
Hostname: www
Path: archivesweb, webarchives
Timestamp: 4-14 digits
Examples: http://www.collectionscanada.gc.ca/webarchives/20061104084225/http://broadband.gc.ca/maps/province.html?prov=48
http://www.collectionscanada.gc.ca/archivesweb/20060209004933/http
Note: Not to be confused with other close URL variants. Only capture "/webarchives/" or "/archivesweb/"
Move example: Canada Domain: bac-lac.gc.ca:8080
Hostname: webarchive
Path: wayback
Timestamp: 4-14 digits
Examples: Note: Formerly collectionscanada.gc.ca see above Catalonian Archive Domain: padi.cat(:8080)?
Hostname: www, (none)
Path: wayback
Timestamp: 4-14 digits
Examples: Web Archives Singapore Domain: nlb.gov.sg
Hostname: eresources
Path: webarchives/wayback
Timestamp: 4-14 digits
Examples: Note: Not to be confused with other close URL variants. Only capture "/webarchives/wayback/" Slovenian Archives Domain: nuk.uni-lj.si:8080
Hostname: nukrobi2 (may change)
Path: wayback
Timestamp: 4-14 digits
Examples: Estonia Archives Domain: digar.ee
Hostname: veebiarhiiv
Path: a
Timestamp: 4-14 digits
Examples: Bavarian Archives Domain: bib-bvb.de
Hostname: langzeitarchivierung
Path: wayback
Timestamp: 4-14 digits
Examples: York University Digital Library Domain: yorku.ca
Hostname: digital.library
Path: wayback
Timestamp: 4-14 digits
Examples:
Memento Note: Redirects to an external archive service based on cached data in the Memento database which can fluctuate and/or be inaccurate due to the cache going out of sync with the client service. Google Note: Links quickly expire.
Note: No memento access