Previously called "Lending Library" it seems: help.archive.org/hc/en-us/articles/360016554912-Borrowing-From-The-Lending-Library
You can borrow online books from them for a few hours/days: help.archive.org/hc/en-us/articles/360016554912-Borrowing-From-The-Lending-Library This is the most amazing thing ever made!!! You can even link to specific pages, e.g. archive.org/details/supermenstory00murr/page/80/mode/2up
They seem to a have a separate URL with the same content as well for some reason: openlibrary.org/, classic messy Internet Archive style.
Bastards are suing them www.theverge.com/2020/6/1/21277036/internet-archive-publishers-lawsuit-open-library-ebook-lending: Hachette, Penguin Random House, Wiley, and HarperCollins
It is quite hard to decide if an upload is from the official legal lending library, or just some illegal upload, e.g.:so the URLs are basically the same style. Some legality indicators:
- archive.org/details/TheGoogleStory likely illegal
- archive.org/details/isbn_9780385342728 likely legal
Access-restricted-item: true- present in the collection: archive.org/details/internetarchivebooks?tab=about
Feature added in 2019 apparently: www.reddit.com/r/DataHoarder/comments/dj6ot5/you_can_now_save_a_screenshot_of_your_saved_pages/
github.com/ourbigbook/template/archive/refs/heads/master.zip
But TODO: how to access the screenshot afterwards?
github.com/ourbigbook/template/archive/refs/heads/master.zip
But TODO: how to access the screenshot afterwards?
archive.org/details/toomanyrequests_20191110 says 15 archives / minute, but apparently aslo 15 retrievals per minutes on Wikipedia, after which 5 min blacklist. After that, you start getting some 429s, and after that, server refuses to connect at al.
CDX: no limits apparently, they might just throttle you? Made 10k requets on bash loop and was going fine. But not that if you get blacklisted by create/fetch requests blacklist, server fails to connect here as well.
- archive.org/post/1055220/how-to-query-for-all-the-websites-that-end-in-combr
- archive.org/details/WebArchiveDomainFiles only a random list with per-ccTLDs upon request of (paid presumably) partners. As of 2023 only contains the Netherlands: archive.org/details/Dotnl-2016-present-domains-in-wayback-domainyear-of-last-capture
Pages seem to take some time after they say they have "archived it" to when you can actually see what was archived.
Their system is that bad unsurprisingly.
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The Internet Archive is a non-profit digital library that aims to preserve and provide access to a vast collection of digital content, including websites, books, music, software, and other media. It was founded in 1996 and is best known for its Wayback Machine, which allows users to view archived versions of websites as they appeared at different points in time.