Save To The Wayback Machine

Quickly save web pages to the Internet Archive's Wayback Machine.

Save To The Wayback Machine: Chrome Extension

"Save To The Wayback Machine" is a Chrome extension designed to provide efficient archiving of web pages on the Internet Archive's Wayback Machine. This tool is equipped with features such as detecting if a page can be archived, saving pages, images, and links via the right-click (context) menu, viewing the last time a page was archived, and tracking the number of pages a user has archived. Note: This unofficial extension is not affiliated with the Internet Archive.

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Extension stats

By: https://verifiedjoseph.com

Users: 5,000+

Rating: 4.45

(38)

Version: 5.6.1 (Last updated: 2022-04-09)

Creation date: 2020-04-30

Permissions:

notifications
storage
contextMenus
activeTab
https://archive.org/wayback/available?url=*
https://web.archive.org/*

Size: 90.83K

Email: ex*****@verifiedjoseph.com

URLs: Website ,Privacy policy

Full description: See detailed description

Ranking

# 13,068 ▲ 72

Other platforms

Not available on Android

Save To The Wayback Machine (v5.6.1)

293 4.69

(13)

Save To The Wayback Machine (v5.6.1)

1,647+ 3.50

(2)

User reviews

These summaries are automatically generated weekly using AI based on recent user reviews. Chrome Web Store does not verify user reviews, so some user reviews may be inaccurate, spammy, or outdated.

Pros

Easy to use and user-friendly interface
Enables users to both archive pages and load archived pages very easily
Provides a minimalistic design

Cons

Support will be discontinued in January 2023 and users are recommended to use the official extension instead
The extension may sometimes run slow
If a user switches tabs while a page is archiving, the progress is no longer visible

Most mentioned

The extension does what it's supposed to
The need for an option to log in to the Archive account through the extension
The extension could be improved if it automatically indicates if a page has been saved

User reviews

Minimalistic and does what it supposted to do

Noctuna, 2021-03-20

Pretty great! At worst it's a bit slow at times, but I think that has more to do with the Internet Archive being under a heavy load and not the extension.

Garbouw Deark, 2021-02-19

Perfeito. Extensão muito útil e completa.

Rogerio M. Souza, 2020-11-04

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Extension safety

Risk impact

Save To The Wayback Machine requires very minimum permissions.

Risk impact analysis details

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