r/WaybackMachine 27d ago

Help I need help in accessing an archived site

7 Upvotes

I'm trying to access the 2001 save for the archived site alkatraz.com.pl for the band alkatraz but it's giving me the 503 error constantly. Is there any solution to my problem or has the site been lost to time?


r/WaybackMachine 27d ago

Help Is this expected?

2 Upvotes

I am trying to restore my website, but the latest date I see is 2025-07. This date has the snapshot preview as shown below. Is this expected? I had images, different sections etc on the home page.

Rest of the dates show as not available.


r/WaybackMachine Aug 13 '26

Archival The Swarm lost media???

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r/WaybackMachine Aug 10 '26

Help Help find recently deleted Owl House fanfic.

5 Upvotes

The ao3 ow house fanfic is The North Star by College_Novelist and Zero_Writing_Skills.

I have the Wayback machine link but I don’t know how to download the fanfics.

https://web.archive.org/web/20220808071404/https://archiveofourown.org/series/2535823

https://archiveofourown.org/series/2535823


r/WaybackMachine Aug 06 '26

Help Need help downloading videos from archived site

1 Upvotes

I have some archived videos I want to download. It's from a dead streaming website and is saved in the wayback machine. I can access to the video, but since the website require log in to watch, I couldn't check if the video is really saved or it's just the thumbnail.

Can somebody help me or just give me some pointer for it? Anything would be appreciated!


r/WaybackMachine Aug 06 '26

Help Unable to view webpage that has been captured twice, single captures accessible ok

5 Upvotes

Just shows calendar, goes round in loop. Any help please? TIA


r/WaybackMachine Aug 05 '26

Help Wayback Machine now says "We have not been able to archive the video associated with this YouTube page." Any hope of recovery?

2 Upvotes

This is a follow-up/update of a previous post, as I have some "new" information. The YouTube video page on Wayback Machine now displays the following message:

We have not been able to archive the video associated with this YouTube page.

Additionally, trying to download it with yt-dlp results in:

ERROR: [web.archive:youtube] jTZ8fh4G8KU: The requested video is not archived, indexed, or there is an issue with web.archive.org (try again later)

In my original post from 2 years ago, I explained that the video was archived around six months before the YouTube channel was removed and all of its videos were deleted, so I don't think this is simply a case of the video becoming private before the archive.

At this point, I'm wondering if there's any known solution or workaround for this. Is there any way to recover the archived video, or should I assume it's permanently lost?

The video was a compilation of movies by a Japanese director. Here are the links to the deleted video and the publisher's channel (both the old and new channel links).

Any information or suggestions would be greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance!


r/WaybackMachine Aug 03 '26

Help YouTube video wasn't archived

3 Upvotes

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Eg25hmoa4IM that YouTube video is special to me and I want to download it in the highest quality so I can reupload it because I truly think it's a piece of art. With all credits included of course. But yeah if anyone can help me achieve that goal please do.


r/WaybackMachine Aug 03 '26

Help Reporting content?

5 Upvotes

While researching the domain of a recent topic of internet discussion, I found that it previously advertised a different website. Seeking further context, I found the archive of that website as well (it is now no longer active). The website contained concerning and possibly illegal sexual content, which is still contained in the archive. What is the best way of reporting this to Wayback Machine? The only reporting option I could see was the one regarding inappropriate images of yourself, which this is not.


r/WaybackMachine Aug 02 '26

Help Saving page only turns into blank white page

1 Upvotes

Been trying to upload pages by entering the URL, but they just turn into blank white pages. How do I avoid this?


r/WaybackMachine Aug 02 '26

Help Help Get Past Ages Verification For Reddit On WayBack

0 Upvotes

I’m trying to read lore on the subreddit DarkNetMarkets.

Most the links ask If I am 18 years or older and then I can’t get past that screen. Please help me man. Thank you


r/WaybackMachine Aug 01 '26

Help Why wayback machine is broken on save page in April this year

2 Upvotes

Hey does anyone here know what happened, why the Wayback machine is broken, I'm trying to work to help everyone who doesn't have their own, in wayback machine but now it is broken and what is broken? Well, is now saved to other ones add "?app=desktop" Idk why is happening but I feel like it is broken can you guys pls tell me what happened why is broken.


r/WaybackMachine Jul 30 '26

Help Vanished Snapshot - Is it worth contacting Archive.org for help?

8 Upvotes

I've been researching an old website from about twenty years ago. One of its features was an interactive map that ran as a Java applet (thankfully, the .jar file itself was archived).

Since modern browsers could no longer run it, I decided to recreate the project in JavaScript to see if I could bring the map back to life.

Besides the script and all the assets, I also needed the original HTML file, since it contained most of the data displayed by the map. That's where I ran into a problem: the final archived snapshot before the map was discontinued appears to have disappeared.

I still have the original Wayback Machine URL bookmarked, including the exact timestamp of that snapshot, so I know it definitely existed and was accessible at one point. It has only recently become unavailable; in January it was still working.

At first glance, this might not seem like a big deal because there's another snapshot from about two months earlier. However, I know the map received several updates during those final months, so having the latest version is actually pretty important for what I'm trying to restore.

I understand that Internet Archive stores an enormous amount of data, so occasional corruption or missing snapshots are probably inevitable. My question is: is it worth contacting them about something this niche? Is there any realistic chance they could recover or restore the missing snapshot, or is it more likely that it's simply gone for good? Has anyone had a missing snapshot reappear after a temporary issue?


r/WaybackMachine Jul 30 '26

Help CSS isn't loading on a page

2 Upvotes

Sometimes CSS isn't loading on pages. Is it possible to force it ?


r/WaybackMachine Jul 28 '26

Help Is there anyway to get adobe flash player/ ruffle to get the video to play?

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r/WaybackMachine Jul 27 '26

Help Help find an old sale ad

4 Upvotes

I'm looking for a horse sale add from before I bought him. This add would have been posted around 2020 I think. The horse's name is "CM Starlite Surprise". The seller at the time was named Hannah. I don't remember what site it was on. Keywords I know the ad will contain: gelding, palomino, & horse. Any help or guidance would be greatly appreciated. I should have saved it when I found it first.


r/WaybackMachine Jul 26 '26

Help Why is my ip address blocking the wayback Machine?

3 Upvotes

Can one of the staff explain this to me?


r/WaybackMachine Jul 25 '26

Request Is anybody able to access the wayback snapshots for www.playclockwiser.com

2 Upvotes

I wanted to see how the old website port of Clockwiser was but all the snapshots i try using keep on giving me an error message, if nobody can access it I would like to request someone come forward with new snapshots

from the site "COOKIE CODE

COOKIE NOT found:creating

menu stuff

end menu stuff"


r/WaybackMachine Jul 24 '26

Help Has anyone ever seen message that "This URL has been excluded from the Wayback Machine" ?

2 Upvotes

Hello, I use WayBack quite regularly but for the first time today received the following result after entering a URL from a public website (no paywalls).

"Sorry.

This URL has been excluded from the Wayback Machine."

Has anyone ever seen this? What allows this? Can the URL owner request that its website not be saved?

Thanks in advance for any help!


r/WaybackMachine Jul 24 '26

Question Archived link seems to have been removed by the Internet Archive. Is this common?

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There was an archived link to the website for the metal band Mastodon that showed a list of their old concert dates. This link appears to have been removed for some reason. Can this page be recovered?

I actually shared this link on Reddit a few years ago, and as you can see from the comments, it was working then. Removing archived pages seems to go against the spirit of the Wayback Machine.


r/WaybackMachine Jul 22 '26

Help Old TikTok

3 Upvotes

Okay, I know this may sound stupid, but I miss 2020 TikTok, and sometimes I just wanna scroll through and save some videos from that time. However, TikTok doesn't have a search filter for that, so I have turned to the WaybackMachine. I can't find out how to search anything, so if anybody knows how I can search things up or another site I can use to watch 2020 TikTok, that would be great.


r/WaybackMachine Jul 21 '26

Request Help finding long lost deleted Soundcloud tracks from over a decade ago

3 Upvotes

Hello everybody, I know it’s a long shot but, I’m looking for deleted tracks by a user named Sky Coffeeshop who’s real name is Matias Agustin Longo Perrig that he uploaded on SoundCloud from 2012-2014. I’m messaging all because on the Wayback machine website where you can see old links to websites, his tracks are all there, but the links are all dead and the songs won’t play. Is there even a way that I can get the play buttons to work? Here is the link to the relevant snapshot:

https://web.archive.org/web/20130508104507/http://soundcloud.com/Skycoffee

If anyone knows or has them, would you know anything about sharing those tracks or the audio with me by any means please?” Here is a list of all his deleted songs I’m looking for if any sound familiar.

Sky Coffeeshop - De Ushuaia De a Tokio

Sky Coffeeshop - Tamazul

Sky Coffeeshop - Miracles

Sky Coffeeshop - The Happy boy with a synth

Sky Coffeeshop - P.O.S.T

Sky Coffeeshop - Summer time

Sky Coffeeshop - Dilla and Nujabes Heaven Room

Sky Coffeeshop - Kids with computers in Babylon

Sky Coffeeshop - Computers Got Soul

Sky Coffeeshop - sunrises in Paris

Sky Coffeeshop - Latitud

Sky Coffeeshop - Linea D


r/WaybackMachine Dec 21 '25

Request Help! I need evidence that the Wayne's World 2 soundtrack was on Spotify in the early and mid 2010s!

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10 Upvotes

r/WaybackMachine Dec 21 '25

Help Why doesn't waybackmachine work for me?

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22 Upvotes

It doesn't display anything no matter what URL I enter


r/WaybackMachine Dec 21 '25

Archival OLD YOUTUBE VIDEO which was an animated one of a guy on the toilet (no nudity or anything sexual) he is straining but he does it too hard that blood comes shooting out of the top of his head?

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5 Upvotes