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Using Python To Access archive.today, July 2025

It seems like a lot of the previous software wrappers to interact with archive.today (and archive.is, archive.ph, etc) via the command-line ...

  • Latin1 vs UTF8
    Latin1 was the early default character set for encoding documents delivered via HTTP for MIME types beginning with /text . Today, only ...
  • Too much efficiency makes everything worse
    From "Overfitting and the strong version of Goodhart's law" : Increased efficiency can sometimes, counterintuitively, lead to ...
  • yt-dlp Archiving, Improved
    One annoying thing about YouTube is that, by default, some videos are now served in .webm format or use VP9 encoding. However, I prefer stor...