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It says he's a saver, not a retriever!

Those things are lost in the great mines of Morediskspaceia

Save the cheerleader, save the world.

ctrl+s

I save lots of 2000s kid's shows, for when my future kids grow up. No telling when they'll become lost media. I use filebot to automatically rename the files to TVDB standards, and so far I've collected 8tb. Do I have a problem?

Too late. It's all SSDs already. They're more robust long term.

Same

I saved your comment too

The only one who has the lost episodes of You Can’t Do That On Television.

In the room with all the old PCs they ever owned.

No archive.org guy uses his powers for good. This guy is an internet hoarder.

Probably a browser extension these days. I had one back in the late 90's or early 2000's that would simply download the page you were on, as well as every page, image, audio file, etc. on every recursive link on that page.

This was back when most websites had a table of contents link somewhere, though. There are plenty of sites now that don't link to every page contained on the domain and are only accessible if you manually enter the URL or use dynamically created pages that only exist upon request.

It won't save everything, but if a script follows every link recursively, most content should be reached that way. That's kind of what Google does but for one site instead of the internet.

If there is a search function try very simple queries.

The alternative of brute forcing links would be unfeasible, even if you are not rate limited by the site, due to the exponential complexity.

If you want to do something please look into api/scraping etikette like exponential back off.

There's software that browses to the homepage of a site and starts traversing it all, saving it all in the process

Link? And where can I upload a PDF* of the site to share with you? tmpfiles.org’s short duration probably won’t cut it…

*Although I’m certain The Saver™️ would only do full webarchive zips, for us casuals, the PDF export shall do (and be easier in day to day use)

It's actually pretty selective. Recently tried reading an old webcomic, lots of dead links and the various web archive pages were very incomplete. I'm sure SOMEONE has it saved somewhere, but it doesn't look like they made it easily available to the general public.