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The Wayback Machine (https://web.archive.org) is very useful for finding old versions of websites. Unfortunately, its front page has a bar of horizontally moving images that take a long time to load. Even worse, I can't use the Wayback Machine over the remote desktop because the horizontally moving images take too much bandwidth and suffocate the remote desktop connection.
Is there a way to use the Wayback Machine without loading these scrolling images, or at least stop them from scrolling?
There is a form for saving a copy on https://archive.org/web/web.php:
You can also go to https://web.archive.org/web/save/{url-you-want-to-save} to make the Wayback Machine take a snapshot of the current state. This is what happens when you use the above form.
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.
Best Answer
All you need is Adblock Plus and block the element:
web.archive.org###web_screenshots____________________________________________________________
Result: