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Comparing the Article Backup Results of Different Social Media Websites
Medium:
- Wayback Machine: Possible backup failure, successful backups may lack images. Examples of failures[1] and successes[2] are given.
- Webpage archive: Possible successful backup (link), with examples including one with blurred images [3].
- Perma.cc: Shows an example of a successful backup.
- historio: Notes on backup visibility issues due to CSS conflicts.
- Diigo (private access): Notes on reading backups in mhtml format.
PTT:
- Wayback Machine: Mentions partial success with restrictions due to adult content warnings[4][5].
- Webpage archive: Successful backup.
- Perma.cc: Backup failure due to 18+ warnings.
- historio: Successful backup.
- Diigo (private access): Successful backup.
Facebook:
- Wayback Machine: Backup results in a login screen, even when set to public.
- Webpage archive: Error message "Not Found (yet?)"
- Perma.cc: "You’re Temporarily Blocked" message.
- historio: Using bookmarklet had no effect, backup was not successful.
- Diigo (private access): Reading backups in mhtml format.
Dcard
- Wayback Machine: Backup failed due to HTTP 403 error.
- Webpage archive: Backup failed[6]
- Diigo (private access): Reading backups in mhtml format.
YouTube
- Wayback Machine: (1) Videos cannot be played, (2) Comments are not visible [7]
- Archive Today: (1) Videos cannot be played, (2) Comments are visible [8]
Desktop tools
| check | approach | filetype | cached media (images, flash...) | clickable text embeded with links | kept the saved time* | kept the original URL | Comments |
| Fx 2.0: Save as HTML (kept images) | html | saved with another directory | yes | yes | no | ||
| Fx 2.0: Save as HTML (html only) | html | no | yes | yes | no | ||
| ☆ | Fx 2.0 + ScrapBook 1.2 | html | saved with another directory | yes | yes* | yes | |
| ☆ | Fx 1.5 + MAF 0.6.3: Save as MAF MHT Archive | mht | embeded into a single file | yes | yes | yes | |
| Fx 2.0 + Google Toolbar for Firefox 3: Send with Gmail | html | no, they use the original URL of media | yes | yes | yes | ||
| ☆ | IE 6.0.x: Save as MHT | mht | embeded into a single file | yes | yes | yes | |
| Acrobat PDFMaker 7.0.5 | embeded into a single file | yes | yes | yes | |||
| Print to Adobe Acrobat Printer | embeded into a single file | no | yes | yes | |||
| Print to pdfFactory Pro v2.45 | embeded into a single file | no | yes | yes | |||
| IE + Adobe Acrobat 7: Convert web page to PDF | embeded into a single file | yes | yes | no | |||
| Unipage Unifier 1.0 RC3(kept images or flash...) | html | embeded into a single file | yes | yes | no |
Online services
| check | approach | filetype | cached media (images, flash...) | clickable text embeded with links | kept the saved time* | kept the original URL | Information organization / Comments |
| BackupUrl.com (cache image) | html | yes | yes | yes | yes | no (visited: 2009-04-09) | |
| ☆ | Evernote Web (no cache image) | html | no, they use the original URL of media | yes | yes | yes | tags; It also offer the sync software ((visited: 2008-03-29)) |
| Furl (no cache image) | html | no, they use the original URL of media | yes | yes | yes | Topic (tags) | |
| Yahoo My Web 2.0 Beta (no cache image) | html | no, they use the original URL of media | yes | yes | yes | tags | |
| ☆ | Google Notebook (no cache image) | html | no, they use the original URL of media | yes | yes | yes | tags |
| "Jump" Knowledge | html | no, they use the original URL of media | yes | yes | yes | You can annotate the webpages, and share the link to others. | |
| toread (no cache image) | html(Email) | no, they use the original URL of media(written in related path will appear normally) | yes | yes | yes | ||
| WebCite(access error: 2007-05-07) | html | no, they use the original URL of media(written in related path will appear normally) | yes | yes | yes | You can browse or backup the same page at different time. |
About kept the saved time: Most files already have this property. It varied easily if we saved to different storage media or FTP to another location. But the solution of Fx 1.5 + ScrapBook 0.18.4 saved this property with another function (metadata).
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