Option to disable archiving to waybackmachine?

[bormay]

Should there be an option to disable archiving to the waybackmachine?

[pirate]

There is. It's mentioned in 3 places in the readme, and in the config docs. 🤙

[jrkotrla]

Can I get some additional clarity please? I've added a
SAVE_ARCHIVE_DOT_ORG = False

into the ArchiveBox.conf but it's still submitting new links to archive.org. which is less than ideal. as then I have to manually select the archive method every single time.

[jrkotrla]

all done using archivebox config set command.

[SERVER_CONFIG]
SECRET_KEY = {xx}
PUBLIC_INDEX = False

[ARCHIVE_METHOD_TOGGLES]
SAVE_ARCHIVE_DOT_ORG = False

[pirate]

Can you screenshot where you see it submitting links to Archive.org? Also check the config is correct with archivebox config --get SAVE_ARCHIVE_DOT_ORG.

[jrkotrla]

archivebox@299dc9968bbb:/data$ archivebox config --get SAVE_ARCHIVE_DOT_ORG
[i] [2021-11-26 00:59:02] ArchiveBox v0.6.2: archivebox config --get SAVE_ARCHIVE_DOT_ORG
    > /data

SAVE_ARCHIVE_DOT_ORG=False

archivebox@299dc9968bbb:/data$ 

but all of the links still show archive links. what am I doing wrong?

[pirate]

Oh the icon coloration isn't accurate for that method, that doesn't necessarily mean it's being saved to Archive.org. Can you check archive/<timestamp>/index.json and archive/<timestamp>/archive.org.txt to see if it's actually being saved.

[jrkotrla]

whew, there's no archive.org.txt saved since roughly when I made that
change, so thank you it does seem to be working properly. I didn't realize
that it still indicates a link to archive even if it doesn't submit the
link to archive.org (moved reply)

[Jonirico11]

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[blogdemoi]

Hi,

I am having the same problem. I disabled saving to archive.org in the ArchiveBox.conf, however when archiving from the cli it still archives to archive.org.

archivebox config --get SAVE_ARCHIVE_DOT_ORG returns:

dietpi@DietPi:~/archivebox$ docker compose run archivebox config --get SAVE_ARCHIVE_DOT_ORG
[i] [2023-05-13 22:49:58] ArchiveBox v0.6.2: archivebox config --get SAVE_ARCHIVE_DOT_ORG
> /data

SAVE_ARCHIVE_DOT_ORG=False

Thank you.

[blogdemoi]

Here is the screenshot, Archive.org doesn't appear here:

./archive/<timestamp>/archive.org.txt is not present (bottom right panel):

However, when I click on the Archive.org icon in my Archivebox web gui, I am redirected to the Archive.org page where I can see it was saved there: https://web.archive.org/web/20230515103547/https://www.iias.asia/the-review/portraiture-and-early-studio-photography-china-and-japan

[blogdemoi]

I tried from the GUI, without saving to Archive.org, and the same thing happened, it saved to Archive.org.

I didn't change anything in my Archivebox install/configuration except that I am now saving to a USB key, attached to my Pi.

[pirate]

Clicking the button in the UI takes you to the URL to "search for or save if not present" on archive.org. It's not actually saved until you click that link.

[pirate]

As long as you don't see the .txt file or the logs indicating archivebox has submitted it to archive.org, it isn't actually saved there. Clicking the link makes archive.org aware that a URL that's not archive was requested by a user, and then they go and archive it and display it to you, so don't click the link unless you want them to save it.

[blogdemoi]

Ah... I didn't understand right then. Thank you for the clarification!

I won't click anymore. :-)