Wayback Machine
The Internet Archive's browser extension for saving pages and viewing archived copies of missing ones.
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About Wayback Machine
The Wayback Machine extension connects your browser to the Internet Archive. You can save the page you are viewing to the archive and open earlier archived versions of a page, which helps when a link is broken or the content has changed or disappeared.
The extension is published by the Internet Archive for Chrome, Firefox, Edge and Safari. Its source code is maintained on GitHub, including a separate Safari build.
Strengths
- Official extension from the Internet Archive
- Saves pages to the archive in one step
- Finds archived versions of missing or changed pages
- Available for Chrome, Firefox, Edge and Safari
Limitations
- Depends on the Internet Archive's service being available
- Pages not previously archived cannot be recovered
Details
- Pricing
- FreeFree extension from the non-profit Internet Archive.
- License
- Open source, license not stated
- Developer
- Internet Archive
- Platforms
- Browser extension
- How it runs
- Browser extension
- Works offline
- No
- Best suited for
- Researchers and readers who want to preserve pages or recover dead links
- Categories
- Browser tools, Privacy tools
- Last verified
- Added
- Provenance
- Facts checked against the developer's own pages and store listings, 1 sources on file.
Alternatives to Wayback Machine
Compare allSoftware that can replace Wayback Machine for an important use case, and what changes if you switch.
Web Archives
A browser extension that looks up archived and cached copies of the page you are viewing.
Web Archives queries several archive and cache services from one place instead of only the Internet Archive, but it does not save pages and Firefox is not listed as supported.
SingleFile
Saves a complete web page as one self-contained HTML file.
SingleFile saves a complete page as one self-contained local HTML file instead of the Internet Archive, but it cannot recover pages you never saved yourself.
WebScrapBook
Captures web pages into an organised, annotatable local archive.
WebScrapBook captures pages into an organised, annotatable local archive rather than a public one, and full features need its companion backend server running.
Save Page WE
Saves a page as currently displayed into one HTML file.
Save Page WE stores pages locally as single HTML files with batch saving and command-line automation, is Firefox focused, and cannot find archived copies of dead links.
monolith
Saves a web page and everything it loads into one self-contained HTML file that renders correctly with no network connection.
Monolith is a command-line tool that saves a page with all assets embedded into one HTML file, keeping archives on your own disk instead of the Internet Archive.
Similar software
Related functionality, not necessarily a direct replacement.
changedetection.io
Watches web pages for changes and notifies you through Discord, email, Slack, Telegram, a webhook or dozens of other services.
FireShot
A browser extension that captures full web pages, selections or visible areas as images or PDF.
Evernote Web Clipper
Clips articles, screenshots and PDFs into an Evernote notebook.
PrintFriendly
Removes clutter from a page before printing or saving it as a PDF.
