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Wayback Machine

The Official Wayback Machine Extension - by the Internet Archive.

Users300KCurrent public install base
Rating4.3Store average score
Reviews333Public review volume
Manifest versionV3Extension platform version
7-day growth0Net users gained this week
7-day growth rate0%Relative weekly velocity
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Version3.4.8
ManifestV3
Size1.33MiB
Languages1English (United States)
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Welcome to the Official Internet Archive Wayback Machine Browser Extension! Go back in time to see how a website has changed through the history of the Web. Save websites, view missing 404 Not Found pages, or read archived books & papers.

Most features will work without requiring an account including Save Page Now.

Some features must be enabled from Settings. Turn on Private Mode to prevent automatic sending of data and to protect your privacy while browsing.

Features

• Save Page Now - Instantly save the page you are currently viewing in the Wayback Machine. Turn on Auto Save Page in settings to save pages that have not previously been saved, or Auto Save Bookmarks to save when bookmarking a page. Works while logged out, or log in for additional options.

• Oldest, Newest & Overview - View the first version of a page or the most recently saved in the Wayback Machine. Or view a calendar overview of all archived pages. Can also use by right-clicking over a page or link.

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Store average score4.3Chrome Web Store aggregate rating, including ratings without synced review text
Synced text average4.0Average computed only from synced review bodies below
Reviews with text195Synced review bodies
Total ratings / reviews333Chrome Web Store public rating/review count

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usless 5342022年3月22日
5

Works very well. I especially like the feature that shows you how many times a page has been saved, it helps when exploring old (or very new!) sites to find what I should archive.

Language en
3 helpful · 0 not helpful
Jeremy Leung2022年3月20日
2

The latest update has some new features that would make it easier to archive not only the page itself but also outlinks and more. Unfortunately, no matter which page I go to, it kept giving me the message "Save Failed" even if I can save the page, outlinks, and more on web.archive.org instead.

Language en
3 helpful · 0 not helpful
J Ender2022年3月14日
3

It now requires a login. They claim to hold privacy to a high standard, but now want personally identifiable information? I understand that to offer a personal archive, that's necessary - but the anonymous option should be permitted (and the default setting). The 'private mode' is also not selectable without diving into settings. Regular user is probably going to forget about it. Do these settings and extension installation compromise incognito mode? I would appreciate a change in the taskbar icon color if the page is unarchived, then I could decide if it should be archived or not. Or announced up-front after clicking the icon - instead of having to go look at the page on archive.org. Would be nice to know if: never archived, archived >1 month ago, archived longer than one day ago, archived today - some sites don't need frequent updating, some change on a minute-by-minute basis. I've seen PDFs with 1000s of snapshots - which are totally un-needed, as the resource has never changed. "it can now [r]ead and change all your data on the websites you visit" - is required in order to seemlessly load and show archived content when a 404 is thrown during a websurfing session. However, for those paranoid people who do not want to give up control, it should be possible to make a clean extension - without such permissions - that allows you to grab the url, and when clicked, check and present the archive.org most-recent version.

Language en
8 helpful · 0 not helpful
Lanee JIANG2022年3月13日
2

Always Login Error

Language en
2 helpful · 0 not helpful
Christoph Engelhardt2022年3月5日
1

Wayback Machine was ok until last update. Now the extension requires login for some operation, which would be ok. But email and password, which are accepted when logging in at the Wayback Machine-site is not accepted here, so login is impossible. Multiple password reset without change of this behaviour. Does not work any more. It is a pity.

Language en
16 helpful · 0 not helpful
iman zaim2022年3月2日
5

gud

Language da
0 helpful · 3 not helpful
Piet Kotzé2022年2月28日
4

It worked flawlessly and was perfect, but now appears to require one to sign in to save a webpage from within the extension.

Language en
3 helpful · 0 not helpful
404_112022年2月27日
5

It is an amazing tool that bridges the gap between casual web browsing, and more serious/deliberate web archival. As an avid user of the wayback machine, having this tool catch all the pages as I visit them while I don't make more in depth captures is amazing. If you don't have it yet, grab it, and set it to make automatic captures, it will help with preservation a lot.

Language en
1 helpful · 0 not helpful
Eric2022年2月27日
3

Good, but I would like it to automatically load the most recent version of a page when met with a 404 message. I don't know if that's already supposed to happen, but it doesn't seem to work on custom 404 pages as far as I can tell.

Language en
0 helpful · 2 not helpful
Ray Dmee2022年2月26日
1

Worked perfectly fine until recently, now all I get is "save failed." Using save page now on the website still works though.

Language en
7 helpful · 0 not helpful