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Matching Donations at the Internet Archive / Wayback Machine

posted by martyb on Friday November 30 2018, @01:48AM   Printer-friendly
from the fix-the-fricken-web dept.

An Anonymous Coward writes:

After donating to SoylentNews, my next favorite online charity is archive.org — I use the Wayback Machine to fix old broken links, check books out of their huge online library and listen to the live music archive.

Since I've donated before, I got the once-a-year reminder from them today and this time they have an unnamed donor that is matching donations (don't know for how long). So I sent them twenty-five bucks for a job well done.

Brewster Kahle's pitch is here, https://archive.org/donate/

...
We need a Web that’s reliable. That sets the record straight. We need a Web that’s on our side. A Web that’s not creepy, that doesn’t spy on us. So let’s fix the frickin’ Web!

When I started this nonprofit 22 years ago, people called me crazy. Collect web pages? Why? Who would want to read a book on a screen?

Did you know, this past year we’ve:

        We’ve fixed 1.5 million broken links in Wikipedia using the Wayback Machine?
        Journalists have cited the Internet Archive 1200+ times to set the record straight?
        Readers have borrowed 4 million books and downloaded 900 million texts with complete reader privacy?

Nearly all of the archive.org pages I visit show 0 trackers with EFF Privacy Badger. Oddly the donation page shows a half dozen, perhaps tied to the various payment options (like credit card logos)? I blocked them all and the page still displayed OK.

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  • (Score: 1, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Friday November 30 2018, @02:34PM (2 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Friday November 30 2018, @02:34PM (#768273)

    A few years ago, javascript became mandatory for using web.archive.org . Now it's impossible for me to use the site. I'm not donating to that.

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday November 30 2018, @02:42PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Friday November 30 2018, @02:42PM (#768276)

    impossible

    lol

  • (Score: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday December 01 2018, @10:17AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Saturday December 01 2018, @10:17AM (#768595)

    I agree that it's pretty annoying, but tech savy users like us get an advantage from this annoying JS + JSON obsession. They are re-designing all their stupid webinterfaces to be online databases.

    I have my own program for using Archive, but here is the necessary urls for you to write your own. All it takes is parsing some JSON.

    http://web.archive.org/__wb/sparkline?url=%URI%&output=json
    Gives you an overview of the captures and the numbers for the first and the last capture. Which is enough to construct a link to the archived page.

    Get the capture numbers for a calendar year:
    http://web.archive.org/__wb/calendarcaptures?url=%URI%&selected_year=2018