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archive.today is an on-demand web archiving service at https://archive.today. A web archiving service allows Wikipedia editors to reduce link rot by preserving a copy of an online source that can be accessed if the original page is moved, changes, or disappears. Not all web pages can be archived using archive.today.^[1]

archive.today can archive HTML web pages, style sheets, JavaScript, and digital images.

^ "FAQ". A page may not be archived for a number of reasons. archive.today does not support archiving Portable Document Format files, audio and video. The page may be too big (there is 50mb limit for a single page). The content may be inaccessible from the archive.today network (this is particularly likely if you are attempting to access subscription based content which your institution subscribes to on its users' behalf). Also, the content may be unreadable by the archive.today archiver (too complex JavaScript based pages can crash its browser or be executed too long time, or ones involving browser checks sometimes cause our archive engine to fail). … Pages which violate our hoster's rules (cracks, porn, etc) may be deleted. Also, completely empty pages (or pages which have nothing but text like "502 Server Timeout") may be deleted.

[1] "FAQ". A page may not be archived for a number of reasons. archive.today does not support archiving Portable Document Format files, audio and video. The page may be too big (there is 50mb limit for a single page). The content may be inaccessible from the archive.today network (this is particularly likely if you are attempting to access subscription based content which your institution subscribes to on its users' behalf). Also, the content may be unreadable by the archive.today archiver (too complex JavaScript based pages can crash its browser or be executed too long time, or ones involving browser checks sometimes cause our archive engine to fail). … Pages which violate our hoster's rules (cracks, porn, etc) may be deleted. Also, completely empty pages (or pages which have nothing but text like "502 Server Timeout") may be deleted.

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