If you spend a lot of time on the Internet, I imagine that you regularly want to save the content of a web page for later or as an archive so that you can return to it one day. You can always do the capture of an entire web page, save a web page in html on your computer, or use the Internet Archive's Wayback Machine to hope to find an old page, but there is an even more interesting solution.
Indeed, Archive.Today is a free website which allows, as its name suggests,archive any page from any website and potentially on different dates.
Archive.Today allows you to archive any web page
Unlike in Internet Archive's Wayback Machine which constantly browses the web to save all websites at more or less regular intervals, Archive.Today is a manual tool that will allow you to save a web page on demand, at any time.
Indeed, Archive.Today was designed to keep an online snapshot of a web page that will still be visible even if the original page disappears. Here, for example, is an archive of my article on " Why is the mouse cursor tilted?"
So you can archive any web page, for any reason, so you can return to it at any time and, above all, be sure to find its content.
So, Archive.Today does not necessarily save a web page in its entirety, because the tool focuses on the text content of the page, images, frame content as well as content and images loaded or generated by JavaScript on web 2.0 sites. Concretely, this means that by archiving certain pages, part of the page or layout may be degraded or disappear. Indeed, certain elements are not recovered during archiving such as Flash content (obsolete technology that is less and less available on the web), videos and sounds, PDFs, etc. Moreover, in parallel, Archive.Today captures the web page in the form of a 1024×768 pixel image.
But in most cases, archiving goes perfectly and the web page is saved quite satisfactorily.
Once archived, pages are kept "forever"... or at least as long as Archive.Today is online.
Save a webpage with Archive.Today
Totally free and ad-free, Archive.Today is also very easy to use. On the site a red box allows you to enter the URL of the page to save, and the button Save will allow you to start the machine.
Once the button is clicked, you will have to wait a few seconds in the queue for the capture tool to be available to save a web page. Then the grinder will retrieve all the elements of the page, which will take more or less time depending on its weight.
Once the archiving process is complete, you will access the saved version of the page. Archive.Today provides you with a screenshot in PNG format and, above all, a version of the web page frozen at the time of archiving (the time and date of the backup appear at the top right of the screen).
Interestingly enough, the links inside the page are functional. If an archive of the URL you click is available, you will be taken directly to it, which is particularly useful if you want to archive several interconnected pages of the same site. If the link you click on is not archived, the tool will try to open the original page, if it still exists!
Finally, be aware that Archive.Today provides you with a browser extension (for Chrome, Firefox, Edge, etc.) that adds a button to your browser to keep a snapshot of the page you are currently visiting by sending the URL for archiving.
