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My archive files are all gone. What Happened?
Main Post: My archive files are all gone. What Happened?
How do I use the Reddit Archive?
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How do I use the files that have been archived? I have no knowledge other than using the wayback machine. However, for what I wish to do it is pretty useless, I think. Want to see if some of my now-deleted posts on a now-deleted account was archived or not. I only know the username, and do not remember any of the URLs.
How do I access the files? And, is it a simple process?
Thanks.
Top Comment: The archives are .warc files that have been ingested into the wayback machine, the only way to access them in a usable format is via the wayback There's also https://the-eye.eu/redarcs/ but that's organized by subreddit Have you tried checking reddit.com/user/youroldusername in the wayback machine?
Why would someone archive my reddit profile page?
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There's 10 captures for my profile page and i don't get it. My posts are low quality straight dogshits. Why would they do that? I wanna know why. Are they stupid? I also kinda feel i should be more cautious to post something
Top Comment: Three things: If someone is doing it on purpose, it's because they value the stuff on your profile. If it's being done incidentally, you happened to be linked frequently enough (like in comments and stuff) to be caught by the IA's crawlers. If someone has the Internet Archive extension on, they may have automatic archival enabled and visited your profile, at which point your page was archived incidentally.
How to Archive my own posts on Reddit
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I am looking for a way to capture and archive all my own posts and comments on Reddit. I know this has been asked, but I cannot find a post with a solution. I have used HTTrack , but I am not sure how to use it surgically like this (I really don't want to accidentally try to capture all of Reddit)
Top Comment: You don't need to do all that, just request your data from reddit.
Archive.org is back!
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I couldn't believe it at first but it's true! I've even tried opening an archive.org link to a specific file and it worked!
Top Comment: yeah it is! thanks to everybody at IA that worked so hard to get it back