Questions tagged [internet-archive]
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Using the Internet Archive’s Wayback Machine as a CDN
Can the Internet Archive’s Wayback Machine be used as a content-distribution network (CDN)?
Aside from the moral problem of stealing bandwidth from an organization I love, would serving a unique file ...
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What determines the frequency the Wayback Machine crawls one's website?
I understand archive.org takes its website list to crawl from Alexa, but I don't understand how it decides the snapshot frequencies for each website. We can see some websites are crawled multiple ...
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How to properly (dis)allow the archive.org bot? Did things change, if so when?
I have a website that I mostly don't want to be indexed by search engines, but I do want to preserve it for eternity on archive.org. So my robots.txt starts with this:
User-agent: *
Disallow: /
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How to prevent Alexa and Google from indexing our stuff?
My traffic is not from search engine and I want to prevent bots or others from displaying or accessing it.
What would be a good .htaccess code to do so?
I've heard
User-agent: ia_archiver
Disallow:...
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Is there a way to make Alexa's ia_archiver slow down its crawling of my website?
Alexa's ia_archiver bot is the main contributor to the Internet Archive's "Wayback Machine" web collection, and there are advantages to having my website included in that collection. There are other ...
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Control over the Internet Archive besides just “Disallow /”?
Are there any mechanisms to control what the Internet Archive archives on a site? I know to disallow all pages I could add:
User-agent: ia_archiver
Disallow: /
Can I tell the bot that I want them to ...
