Save To The Wayback Machine

Quickly save web pages to the Internet Archive's Wayback Machine.

Save To The Wayback Machine: Edge Add-on for Archiving Webpages

'Save To The Wayback Machine' is an Edge add-on built for the convenience of Internet Archive users. It lets users archive webpages, images, and links. It also provides notifications on whether a page can or cannot be archived and shows the last archival date of the current page. It has a feature to track the count of archived pages. Although this add-on is not officially sponsored by the Internet Archive, it lends itself useful for users to archive digital content.

Add-on stats

Users: 1,720
119
Rating: 3.50
(2)
Version: 5.6.1 (Last updated: 2022-04-08)
Version code: 5.6.1
Creation date: 2021-07-30
Manifest version: 2
Permissions:
  • notifications
  • storage
  • contextMenus
  • activeTab
  • https://archive.org/wayback/available?url=*
  • https://web.archive.org/*
Size: 89.23K

Ranking

Other platforms

Save To The Wayback Machine (v5.6.1)
4.45 (38) 5,000
Not available on Android
Save To The Wayback Machine (v5.6.1)
4.67 (12) 294
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Add-on summary

Quickly save web pages to the Internet Archive's Wayback Machine and see the last time your current page was archived.

Features:

  • Detects if a page can or can not be archived.
  • Save pages, images and links via the right click (context) menu.
  • See the last time a page was archived.
  • Keep track of the number of pages that you have archived.

Release History: https://github.com/VerifiedJoseph/Save-to-the-Wayback-Machine/releases Source code: https://github.com/VerifiedJoseph/Save-to-the-Wayback-Machine

Privacy Policy: https://github.com/VerifiedJoseph/Save-to-the-Wayback-Machine/blob/master/PRIVACY.md

This is a unofficial extension and is not sponsored, owned, or endorsed by the Internet Archive.

User reviews

Great I would rate it 5 stars if EDGE BAR WASNT DISABLED!!!
by Cameron, 2021-12-12

Please update this add-on so it'll still work on saving the page I told it to archive when I switch to a new tab in Chromium-based Microsoft Edge. Thank you so much!
by Thomas, 2020-12-09

The only answer to missing article sources on wikipedia.
by James, 2020-05-14
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Add-on safety

Risk impact

Save To The Wayback Machine requires very minimum permissions.

Risk impact analysis details
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