A user pointed out a suspicious website to me, and I found these suspicions to be valid (at least for the time being). We plan to do a post, but of course I want to archive first. Two problems:
When I submit the URLs I want to archive, archive.is doesn't archive all items on any given page. Pics for example are missing. I am not very experienced with archive.is, but submitting a single page URL at a time should do the trick? Well, it doesn't for me - the archived page is nowhere like the original page. See here screenshot cuts of before and after archiving: http://imgur.com/a/qtEe4
Second problem: Even if I decided to give the URL here for someone else to archive, we could not archive everything as there are also pages which can only be accessed if you are registered. I won't give away my login data, and I would not want more people to register there as the site seems a small organization, and more registrants in a short timeframe would be suspicious.
So I hope to get help with archiving! Any ideas what I am doing wrong?
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IShallNotFear ago
While there are many tools for capturing screenshots of web pages, the image created with https://snapito.com has a URL link to the screenshot that includes the original web address in it. From there you can archive it on all three major archiving sites. It takes a while to load, and there might be a better site out there, but it is better than nothing.
For example, I tested with one of the front page articles on pizzagate today:
Original link: https://voat.co/v/pizzagate/1881782
Screenshot: https://shrinktheweb.snapito.io/v2/webshot/spu-ea68c8-ogi2-3cwn3bmfojjlb56e?size=800x0&screen=1024x768&url=https%3A%2F%2Fvoat.co%2Fv%2Fpizzagate%2F1881782
archive.is link: http://archive.is/fFvNG
archive.org link: https://web.archive.org/web/20170523034048/https://shrinktheweb.snapito.io/v2/webshot/spu-ea68c8-ogi2-3cwn3bmfojjlb56e?size=800x0&screen=1024x768&url=https%3A%2F%2Fvoat.co%2Fv%2Fpizzagate%2F1881782
megalodon.jp link: https://megalodon.jp/2017-0523-1240-56/https://shrinktheweb.snapito.io:443/v2/webshot/spu-ea68c8-ogi2-3cwn3bmfojjlb56e?size=800x0&screen=1024x768&url=https%3A%2F%2Fvoat.co%2Fv%2Fpizzagate%2F1881782
sensitive ago
Good thing I haven't screenshot much yet - I will definitely try this as it will save a lot of time. Muchas gracias de nuevo!
IShallNotFear ago
I think this might be a better solution than I originally thought. The archive.is and archive.org pages include the dates that they were archived. Since snapito already includes the original URL, I think you have your bases covered. One of the main things with archiving web pages is that you don't want people to argue that it was faked. By having the URL and date on the web page, no one will be able to dispute its validity. Let me know if this method ultimately works for you. If it does, we should share it with the rest of pizzagate as this may be useful for archiving other sites.
sensitive ago
I don't believe it - this does not work either! The screenshot looks exactly the same as when doing it with archive.is. Hell, what is wrong with this website? I can make a screenshot with my computer, but not with this software? Damn!