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davidferguson / ArchiveTheWeb

Helping save the history of the web using the Internet Archive
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Okay, Here's an Actual Issue #4

Closed dkl3 closed 8 years ago

dkl3 commented 8 years ago

I try to archive everything embedded on a Twitter page (e.g. twitter.com/realDonaldTrump), but the images and text that loads when you scroll down does not archive. I've tested this myself.

Care to fix this? Thank you.

davidferguson commented 8 years ago

Firstly apologies for the delay.

I've just done an update so that the script will check if the URL has changed, and if it has, it will archive the new URL. This should fix websites that dynamically load in content via AJAX. The update also archives any images that are on the page on the initial load.

However, I'm not sure how I would go about archiving changes made to a page with the same URL (like a Twitter page). At the moment ArchiveTheWeb doesn't send the HTML that you see, it just send the URL of the page to the Internet Archive. This means that if JavaScript is used to update the page, the Wayback Machine will never know that.

So I don't think that it will be possible to have dynamically loading pages like Twitter easily archived using this extension. Sorry about that.