archival copy
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An archival copy is a copy of a web page made (often by someone other than the author) at a particular point in time, that can be used as a reference if the original disappears or is temporarily unavailable.
Archival copies are sometimes called "archives" for short, however in the context of independent publishing, the term "archive" is specifically used to refer to personal historical archives and the navigation to use them on a personal site.[1][2][3]
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Why? / Use cases
- Store HTML to parse the microformats in the page to render comments and reply context [4]
- Store screenshot of page to preserve how a page looked like, without needing to store all related files (CSS, JavaScript, images)
Services
Internet Archive
You can curl http://web.archive.org/save/{url} to archive a post.[5]
Perma.cc
- https://perma.cc/, has an API documented here: https://perma.cc/docs/developer
WebCite
WebRecorder
archive.is
Tools
Tools and approaches to tools for keeping archival copies of others pages.
IndieArchive
IndieArchive is a open source project to collaboratively grow collective archives of public pages using indieweb sites.
Owark
Owark is short for Open Web Archive and is a WordPress plugin for archiving pages you link to, and then upon linkrot, automatically showing the archived copy instead of linking to a broken page.
