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Poster: Bri-Elma-NY Date: May 14, 2026 1:30pm
Forum: forums Subject: Please stop ignoring Wayback issues

I can't get the Wayback to properly save a webpage. It used to save the same page just fine, and now it won't. Clicking on "report an issue..." is of no help. Specifically, a Calendar page won't save properly.
Original:
https://elmanewyork.webflow.io/calendar
Wayback save:
https://web.archive.org/web/20260514183259/https://elmanewyork.webflow.io/calendar
Please fix... please. Thanks ahead of time
Previously-ignored post re Wayback issues:
https://archive.org/post/2443923/wayback-doesnt-save-pdf-documents-on-a-webpage

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Poster: Hitsmello Date: May 17, 2026 2:52pm
Forum: forums Subject: Re: Please stop ignoring Wayback issues

I can save Artbreeder pages OK, but not Pornhub pages (using https://web.archive.org/save , that is). I wonder why?

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Poster: qwert290 Date: May 18, 2026 3:32am
Forum: forums Subject: Re: Please stop ignoring Wayback issues

Probably, because either
1) your website blocks all wayback scrappers (most popular commercial websites do)
2) the Archive blocked this website, because they got a dmca request or because they don't want this content to be archived.
3) asides from the technicalities, do you really want to use the Archive's servers to archive this type of content? If you need it so much, archive it for yourself locally.

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Poster: Hitsmello Date: May 18, 2026 8:47am
Forum: forums Subject: Re: Please stop ignoring Wayback issues

I'm unsure about point 2, but Pornhub is not EXCLUDED from the IA. It's just that when I enter a Pornhub URL in https://web.archive.org/save and then hit the "save page" button, I curiously get a "404 Not Found" error. That is, the entire IA page says "404 Not Found" and something about "nginx". There's no "Sorry, the internet archive cannot save this page" message.
And how would I archive a website *locally*? All I know of is saving a PDF of the URL, which won't work for anything with videos.

On an unrelated note, I am having trouble with the IA's new search box: anything I input (with quotation marks, that is) seems to give an error when I press Enter.
This post was modified by Hitsmello on 2026-05-18 15:47:56

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Poster: qwert290 Date: May 18, 2026 2:24pm
Forum: forums Subject: Re: Please stop ignoring Wayback issues

Well, the Wayback Machine works as of now.
Now, i don't know about your particular website, ""404 Not Found" gets often returned, when the website blocks the crawler (you can google it to confirm). The websites started to block Wayback massively only recently (last month or so), so mb some videos are there before that period. Can you see, are there anything archived recently?

Well, to archive "locally": i assume you want videos only (not the webpages themselves), you can use https://savevid.com/ (other tools are mentioned here https://www.reddit.com/r/DataHoarder/comments/1m2wq0u/best_pornhub_video_downloader/).

"I am having trouble with the IA's new search box" Give me an example of your search. Does for example this search https://archive.org/search?tab=all&query=%22alice+in+wonderland%22 return error for you?


This post was modified by qwert290 on 2026-05-18 21:24:29