Archival 101

Not everything can be simply be downloaded with the “Save” command in your browser. Some things require a few steps or specialized tools to download in a way where they are easily accessible. How you archive things depends on the type of content you are archiving. Web pages, images, video, etc, all require different methods and/or tools to save copies of them.

There are several ways to archive web pages, depending on how you want the data to be available:

• https://archive.today
• https://web.archive.org

• Wget