Re: Internet Archive APIs useful as fallback?

[swedebugia]

On 2018-12-20 04:00, bill-auger wrote:

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> namely, the Wayback Machine only caches web pages, it does so in a
> semi-automated fashion, carries no metadata, and does not download any
> external assets (such as images and tarballs or any external HTML in
> frames) unless they are defined explicitly in the HTML of the base web
> page (such as data-uri images and other blobs)

This is no longer the case. I found that it most of the times archives 
blobs too.

As an aside, if we need it (and we do/did in the case of bzip2) we could 
consider helping them raise funds (they have their yearly fundraiser 
going now)

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Cheers Swedebugia