Reinclusion to Wayback Machine

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Due to unwanted personal information from long ago I requested a site to be removed from the Wayback Machine internet archive. When you check for it on web.archive.org it shows:

"This URL has been excluded from the Wayback Machine."

Now I want it to be reincluded with the current (and future) content on the site. When I initially requested removal I received an email from archive.org with details and they finished with, " If you have any other questions or concerns, please let us know." I have replied numerous times about reinclusion for the current site and haven't received a reply.

What can I do to have the site reincluded in the Wayback Machine for current and future content? I have already changed robots.txt to allow access.

Best Answer

What you want -- "only show content collected after this date", is not supported by the Internet Archive's software.

Related Solutions

Archive.org – How to Skip 404 Errors in the Wayback Machine

I am currently using the following bookmarklet:

var f = function(jsn){window.location.href=jsn.archived_snapshots.closest.url;};var d = document,z=d.createElement('script'),b=d.body,l=d.location;z.setAttribute('src','https://archive.org/wayback/available?url='+encodeURIComponent(l.href)+'&callback=f');z.setAttribute('type', "application/javascript");b.appendChild(z);void(0);

or for sites where I haven't enabled javascript (in the NoScript addon) i use

javascript:(function(){window.location=window.location.toString().replace(/^/,"http://archive.org/wayback/available?url=");})()

followed by

javascript:(function(){a=JSON.parse(document.getElementsByTagName("pre")[0].innerHTML);window.location=a.archived_snapshots.closest.url;})()

This uses the API I mentioned above in the question. They are tested in Firefox 32.0 and probably contains multiple bugs.

Archive.org – How to Download a Snapshot from the Wayback Machine

It is not possible to download a snapshot from the Wayback Machine directly as it is not allowed by their Terms of Use.

From their FAQs:

Can people download sites from the Wayback?

Our terms of use specify that users of the Wayback Machine are not to copy data from the collection.

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Archive.org – How to Skip 404 Errors in the Wayback Machine

Archive.org – How to Download a Snapshot from the Wayback Machine

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