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You can create a bookmark in Firefox to save a link quickly.

Bookmark Location- https://web.archive.org/save/%s

Keyword - save

So searching 'save https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24406193' archives this post.

You can use any Keyword instead of 'save'.

You can also search with https://web.archive.org/*/%s

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Does that `save` keyword work?

The problem is %s gets escaped, so Firefox generates this URL, which seems to be invalid:

https://web.archive.org/save/https%3A%2F%2Fnews.ycombinator....

web.archive.org automatically converts the https%3A%2F things to https:// for me. I noticed it many times.

If you are still facing problems, go to https://web.archive.org . In the bottom right 'Save page now' field, right click and select 'add keyword for search'. Choose your desired keyword.

>web.archive.org automatically converts the https%3A%2F

Did you try the link provided by the one you replied to?

Because it says "HTTP 400" here, so apparently it doesn't convert well, at least not in my end.

Yeah. I used to face the same problem. The links would get converted to a different format. But it got fixed, and I didnt change anything. It is getting automatically converted everytime now.

Uppercase %S for unescaped, e.g.:

https://web.archive.org/web/*/%S

Ah, nice, thanks!

TIL. Thanks for the info.

Nice. I forgot how you can do that.

I just use the extension myself:

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/wayback-machi...

Yeah. That requires access to all sites. I wasn't comfortable adding another addon with that permission.

The permission is just for a simple reason and should be off by default. It is so you can right click a link on any page and select 'archive' from the menu. Small function, but requires access to all sites.

The source is available if you want to know what's going on with those permissions: https://github.com/internetarchive/wayback-machine-chrome

Thanks. I already knew that. I'm familiar with the dev's extensions. Clear Browsing Data and Captcha Buster and very useful.

One issue i have with this extension is that it randomly pops up the 'this site appears to be offline' (which overrides the entire page) even when the site actually works (i hit the back button and it appears). I have it installed for some time now and so far i have almost daily false negatives and only once actually it worked as intended.

Also there doesn't seem to be a way to open a URL directly from the extension which seems a weird omission, so i end up going to the archive site anyway since i very often want to find old long lost sites.

It pops up when there is a HTTP 404 status code or similar returned. So these false negatives are likely due to the specific sites that are configured in a wacky way.

(Don't get me wrong, it is still very annoying for the user regardless what the cause is.)

Does it pop up for any 404 error? If so it might be some script or font or whatever resource the site itself is using that would otherwise fail silently. If not... then there has to be some other bug/issue because i get it for many different sites that shouldn't have it.

Nope, only for the "main" page (for lack of a better word), and when there is an archive for it.

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