Archive.is
Screenshot of archive.is
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Type of site
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Web archiving |
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| Available in | Multilingual |
| Website | http://archive.is |
| Alexa rank |
 2,790 (October 2016[update]) |
| Commercial | No |
| Registration | No |
| Launched | 2012 |
| Current status | Online |
archive.is (formerly archive.today) is an archive site which stores snapshots of web pages. It retrieves one page at a time similar to WebCite, smaller than 50 MB each, but with Google Maps and Twitter included. Hostkey is the primary host (servers in Amsterdam and Moscow), distributed by Cloudflare.
archive.is uses headless browsing to record what embedded resources need to be captured to provide a high-quality memento, and creates a PNG image to provide a static and non-interactive visualization of the representation.
Unlike crawlers such as Wayback Machine, archive.is only captures individual pages in response to explicit user requests, and so does not obey the robots exclusion standard. Because of this, website owners cannot unilaterally remove content at will, thus it is a "permanent" archive.
Since July 2013, archive.is supports the Memento Project application programming interface (API), and Chrome and Firefox extensions.
On July 21, 2015, the operators blocked access to the service from all Finnish IP addresses, stating on Twitter that they did this in order to avoid escalating a dispute they allegedly had with the Finnish government.
The whole website is not reachable also from Kazakhstan and Iran. In Russia, only HTTP access is possible; HTTPS connections are blocked. In Mainland China, HTTPS access is possible and HTTP access blocked.
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