[2h👀📦] Auto-archive external links

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CMS for New America

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[2h👀📦] Auto-archive external links #1697

Open nmorduch opened 3 years ago

nmorduch commented 3 years ago

Often publications reference links that eventually stop working, sometimes because the page has been taken down. In order to make references continue to be useful, I think it would be nice to archive them.

We could do something like Wikipedia does, e.g. in the NA article:

Hogan, Clara (April 3, 2013). "ANNE-MARIE SLAUGHTER NAMED NEXT PRESIDENT OF NEW AMERICA FOUNDATION". NEW AMERICA FOUNDATION. Archived from the original on April 7, 2013. Retrieved April 3, 2013.

chigby commented 3 years ago

The Wayback Machine does offer this system for saving single web pages:

https://web.archive.org/save/

There is also their professional/paid service for larger-scale archiving: https://archive-it.org/blog/products-and-services/

There are also a few different read-only search options: https://archive.org/help/wayback_api.php

nmorduch commented 3 years ago

The next question is what this would look like this on our end.

Estimating

[2h] Find all the links
[?] Set up archive service, check whether we would do it enough that we have to pay for it
[?] Save the archive link
[?] Allow overriding the archive link
[2h] Frontend display

Overall assessment is that this would take a fair amount of time and is not a high priority.