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Browser extension for viewing archived and cached versions of web pages, available for Chrome, Edge and Safari

19 mentions on Hacker News by 17 people: 2 stories, 17 comments · first 2018-11-15 · latest 2026-01-15

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  1. …service IMO. BTW, there is a neat browser add-on, which lets you search across various archives: https://github.com/dessant/web-archives
    comment by jijijijij · 2026-01-15 · in Ask HN: Weird archive.today behavior?
  2. …all major web archiving services e.g. Archive.is, Wayback Machine and others in one place. [0] https://github.com/dessant/web-archives
    comment by mrkramer · 2024-09-25 · in Google Cache is fully dead
  3. …(I use the Firefox one) to click when you visit a page that you want to Archive.is or Wayback. [0] https://github.com/dessant/web-archives
  4. Maybe this one https://github.com/dessant/web-archives I'm using it on my phone. It gave me this https://archive.ph/20231026233758/https://theeyewall.com/try... with a few taps.
  5. this extension [1] can retrieve cache from various sources, including google. 1 https://github.com/dessant/web-archives
  6. …loading the backed up site in 2 clicks of a mouse... Available for Chrome Edge Firefox and Safari https://github.com/dessant/web-archives
    comment by anjel · 2022-11-14 · in What ever happened to webrings? (2015)
  7. https://github.com/dessant/web-archives
  8. …too, using extensions like web-archives, allowing you access the archived version in a click. https://github.com/dessant/web-archives
  9. …archive sources. My go-to lately has been using the www.archive.is option when I use the extension. https://github.com/dessant/web-archives
  10. …s://web.archive.org/web/20220209122625/https://www.nytim... I got these through the browser extension https://github.com/dessant/web-archives or just going to the sites and searching. HN is actually how I found out about archive.is/fo/today
    comment by rejectfinite · 2022-02-09 · in The power of touch, especially for men (2017)
  11. …* Web Archives - easy access to cached websites, also useful for paywalls and sites heavy in JS - https://github.com/dessant/web-archives * Vimium - use keyboard for browsing - https://github.com/philc/vimium * SponsorBlock for YouTube -…
  12. …find a copy of the missing page from the Wayback Machine, Google Cache, Archive.is and many more. https://github.com/dessant/web-archives
    comment by dublinben · 2020-05-29 · in Make your 404s into 302s
  13. google cache: https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:https%... teaching a man to fish: https://github.com/dessant/web-archives
    comment by 0-_-0 · 2020-03-18 · in Intro to Information Theory
  14. …recommended) Firefox extension that looks up the current page in one of 18 web archives: https://github.com/dessant/web-archives
  15. …http://210.89.172.69/search2.naver?group=web&mtype=web_doc&w... [1] https://github.com/dessant/view-page-archive
    comment by dessant · 2019-11-29 · in Firefox Replay
  16. …and cached versions of web pages, it supports 15 data sources, and page archiving is also planned. https://github.com/dessant/view-page-archive
  17. …Probably some of the other sites supported by this extension have on-demand archiving too: https://github.com/dessant/view-page-archive For archiving on your own computer, this LWN article is pretty interesting:…