Wayback Machine mirrors and mirroring

[Mæstro]

I became interested tonight in whether there exist mirrors of the Wayback Machine, or ways for private lay users to mirror the contents of a specific website. The best information I have thus far found on each point thus far are that there exists (or existed) an Egyptian mirror comprising all data down to 2007, which is said to have failed in 2023 (both through that interface and OpenWayback, and a Github project which is both too technical for me to use and which can only preserve a site from a single data, whereas my intent is to browse a mirror including all content for a specific site from my childhood for the whole period up to 2008 or so. Could somebody point me in the right direction, whether that means getting the Egyptian site to work or using another existing Wayback mirror, or else downloading the desired site contents myself? To be clear, there is nothing wrong with the Internet Archive as is. Rather, I am wary about the possibility of overzealous copyright claims leading to existing matter being deleted despite qualifying as fair dealing.

[frostknight]

I became interested tonight in whether there exist mirrors of the Wayback Machine, or ways for private lay users to mirror the contents of a specific website. The best information I have thus far found on each point thus far are that there exists (or existed) an Egyptian mirror comprising all data down to 2007, which is said to have failed in 2023 (both through that interface and OpenWayback, and a Github project which is both too technical for me to use and which can only preserve a site from a single data, whereas my intent is to browse a mirror including all content for a specific site from my childhood for the whole period up to 2008 or so. Could somebody point me in the right direction, whether that means getting the Egyptian site to work or using another existing Wayback mirror, or else downloading the desired site contents myself? To be clear, there is nothing wrong with the Internet Archive as is. Rather, I am wary about the possibility of overzealous copyright claims leading to existing matter being deleted despite qualifying as fair dealing.

Problem is, even if you are doing parody, the big media has the advantage of sending bogus cease and desist letters because most people cannot pay for a lawyer to challenge their bs.

I so hate corporations for doing this crap but its sadly how things are now.

There really needs to be country wide anti-slapp laws and only lawyer fees for the loser type thinking and laws in usa.

As of now? The situation is pure bs.

[andyprough]

I would just use the ScrapBook X extension and download the whole site for all those years from wayback to a local copy. Then you'd have it for long-term keeping, and wouldn't have to rely on some mirror service to stay in existence.

I know that people on this forum tend to downplay the benefits of scrapbooking, but I did it for a few years as part of my work and its pretty remarkable the power that you find you have once you get into serious web scrapbooking.

[Mæstro]

I would just use the ScrapBook X extension and download the whole site for all those years from wayback to a local copy. Then you'd have it for long-term keeping, and wouldn't have to rely on some mirror service to stay in existence. I know that people on this forum tend to downplay the benefits of scrapbooking, but I did it for a few years as part of my work and its pretty remarkable the power that you find you have once you get into serious web scrapbooking.

Thank you so very much for this! I am amazed. Scrapbook X is far more powerful than I supposed before installing it, and is, without exaggeration, the browser capability I dreamt about having as a child with an unreliable internet connexion (and even, for 2009–10, no internet at all) and who always disliked it when a site revamped itself. Changing a few settings (eg link depth and scripting) allowed me to supply some assets and page behaviour which failed with default settings on my test page. This board does not permit me to mark an answer as accepted, but I accept your answer.

[Kerebron]

If you want to use a standalone program, there's an old (2017) HTTrack website copier still available for download. I don't know how it would work with modern webs(h)ites, as I haven't been using it for a while now (five years, at least). Should be fine, I suppose.

[andyprough]

Scrapbook X is far more powerful than I supposed before installing it, and is, without exaggeration, the browser capability I dreamt about having as a child with an unreliable internet connexion (and even, for 2009–10, no internet at all) and who always disliked it when a site revamped itself.

I used to spend a lot of time camping in the woods, far from any phone or wifi connection. I found that I could scrapbook all the sites I would be likely to need, to a certain link depth, and I could then access them while camping to write documents for work. When I was ready to email the documents I would drive to a local restaurant and jump on their wifi, maybe scrapbook a few more sites I found I still needed, and then disconnect again and go back into the woods. It's a marvelous way to live, I'd like to do that again now.