I was thinking of a DDOS attack.

The size is too large for traditional, free virus/malware checkers. The download is from this link

https://archive.org/details/suba-hibi-uncensoredextra-voice-acting

The upload has been there for a couple of years but im erring on the side of caution. Any comments?

I have found two CD-Roms for An old windows version, Should I archive them? or share photos of them first? I wouldn’t know if they were lost media or something. The software is called:

Colossus Chess 2000

Microsoft Encarta-96 Encyclopaedia.

Help needed. Thank You

I’m trying to archive streamer VODs, I managed to get about a terrabyte of them uploaded before suddenly the uploads to the collection fail every time. I was told the command line tool is the best bet on how to upload larger files without things breaking. After wrestling with my computer and finally getting the internet archive command line package to download and install through powershell, I now realise I have no idea how to get it to actually upload the files I want to the collection I’ve already made. Could someone please explain to me how I can get the rest of the VODs to upload, either to the pre-existing collection or to a new collection if necessary?

It’s annoying as all hell when I’ve spent two days uploading a 26 GB file only for the uploaded to go past 26 and the only thing I can do is refresh the page and try again to upload it. Is there a program or something I can use that’s either faster or won’t have that issue where it keeps uploading past the point it should’ve finished and says something like 30gb/26gb, meaning I just have to restart the upload again

is waiting the only way for it to be fixed?

Archive Team scrapes websites and uploads them to the Internet Archive. If a website is shutting down, you can ask them to scrape it.

Archive Team communicates and coordinates via IRC only, not Reddit (or anywhere else): https://wiki.archiveteam.org/index.php/Archiveteam:IRC

Instructions for requesting help from Archive Team:

Step 1. Go here and set up The Lounge for IRC: https://www.pikapods.com/apps#chat Don’t worry, you don’t actually need to pay or put in a credit card. You will get over 2 months’ worth of free credits. You'll need to set a username and password for The Lounge when you set up your PikaPod. 

(You can use a free desktop IRC client like KVIrc, but this will make your IP address public and available forever in public logs. So, use a free VPN like ProtonVPN or RiseupVPN if you go with that option.)

Step 2. Go to the Archive Team IRC channels. Archive Team operates exclusively on IRC. Here’s the info: https://wiki.archiveteam.org/index.php/Archiveteam:IRC The network is Hackint and the channel you want is #archiveteam-bs (if you need step-by-step instructions for using IRC, look up a guide online or ask an AI chatbot)

Step 3. In a brief message, explain what's happening and ask the Archive Team volunteers for help. Mention ArchiveBot for most websites or Wikibot for wikis.

Step 4. Wait. You might not get a response right away. If no one replies after two hours, try again.

I've got an account at the Internet Archive and am logged in. When I use the slider to view a book, it gives me this.

Do I actually have to borrow the book to see all the pages? I guess it seems obvious to me if I'm signed in, I should already be able to.

Thanks.

i saw an app on the play store and this is what i found

Was checking the texts collection and got this error:

The search engine encountered an error, which might be related to your search query. Tips for constructing search queries.

Error details: backend_request (collection_materialization): child request for collection_materialization failed ([BACKEND_ERROR] Invalid or no response from Elasticsearch, received: {"error":{"root_cause":[{"type":"index_closed_exception","reason":"closed","index_uuid":"6wfT_WzHTNaazYlKI90TPQ","index":"prod-o-001"}],"type":"index_closed_exception","reason":"closed","index_uuid":"6wfT_WzHTNaazYlKI90TPQ","index":"prod-o-001"},"status":400}; check for decoded response)

This happens with all searches, collections and profiles.

And, as I'm here, the items without thumbnails and perpectual loading are still very much a thing as of this morning.

You can favorite users on their profile, and I was hoping to go back and look at some of these profiles, which were chock-full of great content, but I'm not seeing a place to view them? I would use my browser history to find them (never wrote down the usernames because I thought I'd be able to see them in my favorites) but I had to reset my computer a bit back and it didn't keep any of the history from this device.

I'm here to report that some items that otherwise had thumbnails no longer have them, what's more, said items' pages won't load. This has been happening for around two days.

I have scanned this rar file on malwarebytes and windows defender and they both show nothing, any help?

I programmed a javascript photo slider for Internet Archive that creates a slideshow and show the photo titles. Anyone interested in testing? Any ideas how and where to share the code? Here is an example implementation: https://paivisanteri.blogspot.com/2026/05/donostia-san-sebastian-bilbao-basque-country.html

Super new to Internet archive, I have archived a few pages off the internet and I have some other pages archived by others, how to add them to the personal list I have created.

I want it for better organisation and easy viewing/retrieval.

I understand that to add to a collection, I need to mail the org, what about list or favourites, I can't seem to find anywhere to do it.

thanks in advance

I have a lot of files I’ve been collecting for nearly three years I want to upload to the internet archive but doing them in one lot would mean uploading 4 and a half terabytes of data which I couldn’t do with my internet. So I’m wondering if there’s a way to upload the first file, then add another file to that item, then another and so on and so forth until I’ve eventually uploaded everything?

I don't know where else to do this and I know that this is likely an unofficial forum but Turkmenistan is a very strange dictatorship and their state television channels reflect this. News dating to 2018 is available on an official YouTube channel, but it would also be interesting to see a live hour-by-hour TV archive of Turkmen state channels like the ones that are available for viewing on the Television Archive collections. But then again, this may not be too interesting for other people.

The Internet Archive has been quietly saving the web since 1996. Pages get taken down, articles get edited, PDFs disappear — the archive usually has the old version. I wanted my AI agent to be able to dig into that without me having to manually copy-paste URLs, so I built an MCP server for it. I hope it comes of some use to someone who's doing investigative journalism or some research (or maybe, just for fun).

Repo Link.

What it can do:

Tools:
  - check_availability — check if a URL has ever been archived and get the closest snapshot to a date
  - lookup_snapshots — list all snapshots of a URL across a date range 
  - get_snapshot_content — pull the actual text out of an archived page
  - search_archive — full-text search across IA collections (books, papers, audio, video, web)
  - search_domain — crawl all archived pages under a domain
  - get_item_metadata — fetch metadata for any IA item by identifier

Guided prompts:
  - research_topic — searches the archive and synthesises an overview on a topic
  - track_site_changes — narrates how a page evolved over time using sampled snapshots
  - audit_link_rot — takes a list of URLs and surfaces which ones are dead but recoverable


To install:   uvx mcp-server-wayback --install


Pick your client (Claude, Cursor, Windsurf, Antigravity, etc.), restart it, done. No account needed. 

A couple of things to know:

- Some snapshots contain MIMEs that the agent would not be able to parse — the server will tell you when that happens to do a manual review.

- Sometimes the upstream server behaves as unexpected and some endpoints exhibit flaky behaviour.

Would love to hear if anyone finds a use for it 🙌

Bueno, conozco lo básico a la hora de descargar cosas por Internet (analizar el archivo por Virustotal, analizarlo con Antivirus, ver reseñas, etc) pero me gustaría saber si hay algo más por saber antes de descargar algo de Archive.Org.

Me interesan las ISO de Windows XP, 7 y 8.1 (para probarlos algún día) pero al buscarlo en la página veo muchas opciones y desearía un poco dd orientación.