What does HackerNews think of web-archives?

Browser extension for viewing archived and cached versions of web pages, available for Chrome, Edge and Safari

Language: JavaScript

#8 in Chrome extension
#3 in Google
Trying to make sense of why Otis exploded en route to Acapulco | Oct 2023
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Maybe this one https://github.com/dessant/web-archives

I'm using it on my phone. It gave me this https://archive.ph/20231026233758/https://theeyewall.com/try... with a few taps.
Google is getting a lot worse because of the Reddit blackouts | Jun 2023
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this extension [1] can retrieve cache from various sources, including google.

1 https://github.com/dessant/web-archives
What ever happened to webrings? (2015) | Nov 2022
For those dearly departed websites, a fine extension exists to easily pass a 404 URL to archive.org, painlessly loading the backed up site in 2 clicks of a mouse... Available for Chrome Edge Firefox and Safari https://github.com/dessant/web-archives
Lottery Winner Keeps $30M Jackpot Secret from Wife and Child | Nov 2022
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https://github.com/dessant/web-archives
Ask HN: Is there a spiritual successor to del.icio.us? | Aug 2022
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Internet archive is possible with regular bookmarks too, using extensions like web-archives, allowing you access the archived version in a click.

https://github.com/dessant/web-archives
Ask HN: Add Archive.org link in past section of HN? | Feb 2022
The Web Archives browser extension is great for this. It allows you to pull up archived versions of whatever website you're on, from a variety of archive sources. My go-to lately has been using the www.archive.is option when I use the extension.

https://github.com/dessant/web-archives

The Power of Touch, Especially for Men | Feb 2022
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https://archive.fo/rD6EB

https://web.archive.org/web/20220209122625/https://www.nytim...

I got these through the browser extension https://github.com/dessant/web-archives

or just going to the sites and searching.

HN is actually how I found out about archive.is/fo/today
Ask HN: What browser extensions are a must-have in 2021? | Nov 2021
These are not that well known, but I highly recommend them (Firefox):

* Bypass Paywalls Clean - the name says it all - https://gitlab.com/magnolia1234/bypass-paywalls-firefox-clea...

* Web Archives - easy access to cached websites, also useful for paywalls and sites heavy in JS - https://github.com/dessant/web-archives

* Vimium - use keyboard for browsing - https://github.com/philc/vimium

* SponsorBlock for YouTube - skip in-video ads - https://sponsor.ajay.app/

* Old Reddit Redirect - use old reddit design - https://github.com/tom-james-watson/old-reddit-redirect

* Reddit Enhancement Suite - https://redditenhancementsuite.com/

404 → 302 | May 2020
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There's a fantastic extension for Firefox, Chrome, etc. called Web Archives which will attempt to find a copy of the missing page from the Wayback Machine, Google Cache, Archive.is and many more.

https://github.com/dessant/web-archives
Intro to Information Theory | Mar 2020
google cache:

https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:https%...

teaching a man to fish:

https://github.com/dessant/web-archives

Let's Colonize Titan | Mar 2020
The page is "temporarily unavailable" for me.

To help in your fight against paywalled and temporarilty unavailable pages, here's this (officially recommended) Firefox extension that looks up the current page in one of 18 web archives:

https://github.com/dessant/web-archives