Wayback Everywhere

Automatically redirect every page to its archived version in Wayback Machine, except the sites in Excludes List
What is Wayback Everywhere?
'Wayback Everywhere' is a savvy Chrome extension built to streamline your browsing experience by auto-redirecting to archives of webpages in the Wayback Machine. This occurs unless the site is listed in the Excludes List. The extension aids to avoid unavailable or deleted pages, offers customizability over exclusion preferences, and auto-detects Wayback Machine site's error messages. It also provides an Export/Import feature for your settings.

Extension stats

Users: 1,000+
Rating: 4.50 (8)
Version: 1.1.0.5 (Last updated: 2022-11-22)
Creation date: 2019-01-26
Risk impact: High risk impact
Risk likelihood: Very low risk likelihood
Manifest version: 3
Permissions:
  • storage
  • notifications
  • tabs
  • webNavigation
  • declarativeNetRequest
Host permissions:
  • http://*/*
  • https://*/*
Size: 456.70K

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Extension summary

Automatically redirect every page to its archived version in Wayback Machine, except the sites in Excludes List. You have the ability to add to Excludes list as you browse. Choose "Help" from Popup menu to review the full addon functionality.

Wayback Everywhere is a browser extension/addon that allows you to automatically redirect all pages to Internet Archive's Wayback Machine except the site (domains) that are in 'Excludes' List.

Examples: http://example.org --> https://web.archive.org/web/2/https://example.org. If http://gnu.org is in 'Excludes' List --> http://gnu.org

Over time (perhaps a few days of usage..), you can build this 'Excludes' list to suit your browsing habits. More information on 'Excludes' list available here Exclude List

FEATURES:

Popup menu Use the Popup menu to add/remove site from Excludes list, temporarily disable WaybackEverywhere addon and open Settings and Help Pages.
Automatic Detection of Wayback Machine Site's Error Messages - Addon tries to detect messages displayed by Wayback Machine and either Saves a available page to Wayback or Adds the site to Exclude list based on the error message.
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User reviews

how are we supposed to remove things from the excludes list, WITHOUT DOING IT ONE BY ONE- it pretty much renders the whole thing useless?
by Angelina Georgy, 2023-05-14

Excelente. But ARCHIVE everything. It would need to have a trigger that archives just what is determined.
by Rogerio M. Souza, 2022-10-16

Мне помогло получить оригинальное видео на youtube с музыкой, но действует это не на все видео а так спасибо что он мне помог получит мне мое любимое видео
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Extension safety

Risk impact

Wayback Everywhere requires some sensitive permissions that could impact your browser and data security. Exercise caution before installing.

Risk likelihood

Wayback Everywhere has earned a good reputation and can be trusted.

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