Tagged Cooltech: 4 More Essential Tips for Using the Wayback Machine - GIJN

What’s cool? 4 More Essential Tips for Using the Wayback Machine - GIJN

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ProPublica’s Craig Silverman explains how to bulk archive pages, compare changes, and see when elements of a page were archived.

The previous edition of Digital Investigations offered advice for getting the most out of the Wayback Machine. Now I’m back with even more tips, thanks to an interview with Mark Graham, director of the Wayback Machine.

He pointed to a few features I forgot to mention along with one I wasn’t aware of. We also talked about the challenge of archiving social media content.

h/t @researchbuzz

Where is it?: 4 More Essential Tips for Using the Wayback Machine - GIJN


This is one among many items I regularly tag in Pinboard as cooltech, and automatically autoshares as #cogdogcooltech to Twitter and Mastodon. Now the Coolness is in OEG Connect :wink:
Have you ever been to Cool? Do you know of something cool I should share? Just reply below and I will check it out.

This is excellent, thanks @cogdog!

I will recommend Craig Silverman’s post to the folks who want to build on the introduction to Internet Archive’s Wayback Machine:

Downloadable version of the video: archive.org.