Vandal

Navigator for Web Archive

What is Vandal?

"Vandal" is a Chrome extension designed to provide an effective way to navigate the web archive. It's not affiliated to the Internet Archive but uses the Wayback Machine API serving as a complementary tool to it. With features like Calendar view, Graph view, Navigator, Navigation Panel, History Panel, and Resource Drawer, Vandal ensures effortless browsing through historical and archived web content. The extension has an open-source public license (AGPLv3). However, it may not support some websites, prompting users to use the Wayback Machine.

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By: Vignesh Anand

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Users: 1,000+

Rating: 4.00 (2)

Version: 2.0.1 (Last updated: 2021-06-13)

Creation date: 2021-04-21

Risk impact: High risk impact

Risk likelihood: Very low risk likelihood

Manifest version: 2

Permissions:

storage
unlimitedStorage
webRequest
webRequestBlocking
webNavigation
*://*/*

Size: 4.58M

Email: ve*****@gmail.com

Ranking

# 30008 ▼ 132

Other rankings

#4217 in Workflow & Planning ▲ 3 #56 in month keyword 9 ▲ 1 #129 in machine keyword 23 ▼ 15 #138 in navigation keyword 7 ▲ 2 #295 in panel keyword 21 ▼ 8

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Vandal (v2.0.1)

4.60

(5) 167

Not available on Edge

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Extension summary

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Quickly navigate the web archive and travel back in time without leaving the current tab.

Important: Vandal is not affiliated to the Internet Archive. It uses the Wayback Machine API and is a tiny and complementary subset to the mighty Wayback Machine.

Vandal focuses on ease-of-use and supports the following features for navigation and inspection: 📅 Calendar View: The default navigation mode which uses the least amount of surface area with a mini calendar view. Supports a calendar input that shows archival stats and allows selection of month across the years. 📊 Graph View: Navigation mode based on graphs of year and month. 🧭 Navigator: Built-in browser with ◀️ ▶️ 🔄 actions. 🎮 Navigation Panel: A bottom panel with navigation buttons to zip through archived snapshots for a date or across the month. 🕛 History Panel: Access your navigation history for a website. 🔩 Resource Drawer: A drawer that you can toggle to view timestamp differences of archived resources such as images, scripts, etc. relative to the page. This drawer updates automatically based on URL. ⌛ Historical View (beta): Displays the snapshot of a website throughout the years.

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User reviews

Absolutely the most polished internet archive frontend, website/extension/whatever. This is very well done. Thank you for open sourcing.

Ankush Girotra, 2022-06-27

Does this add on has searching browsing and navigating because I am only using this extension to time travel across the YouTube video platform for my Google chrome app?