How Internet Archive Save Page Now Feature Works

Save Page Now is the Internet Archive's tool for archiving a web page on demand. You give it a URL, it captures the page as it looks right now, and the copy goes into the Wayback Machine, where anyone can see it later even if the original changes or disappears.

How to save a page

1. Go to web.archive.org/save.
2. Paste the page's full address and click Save Page.
3. Wait while it captures. Most pages take seconds; heavy pages can take a minute or more.
4. You get a link to the archived copy. Keep it, since that's the permanent address of your capture.

Shortcut: put web.archive.org/save/ in front of any address, for example web.archive.org/save/https://example.com. Wayback Quick Access has a Save Page Now button that does this for whatever page you're on.

Options with a free account

Signed in to a free Internet Archive account, you get extra choices on the save page:

• Save outlinks: also captures the pages the page links to.
• Save error pages: keeps a capture even if the page returns an error, which can be evidence that it's gone.
• Save screenshot: stores an image of the page as well.
• Save in my web archive: keeps a list of your captures in your account.

What it can't save

• Pages behind a login. It captures what a logged-out visitor sees, so private social media posts, members-only pages and your inbox aren't saved.
• Sites that block the Archive. Some sites block its crawler or have asked to be excluded.
• Some interactive content. Pages that build themselves with scripts, infinite feeds, embedded apps and some videos may come out incomplete.

The Archive also limits how many captures you can make in a short time, so saving hundreds of pages takes a while.

Tips for reliable captures

• Open the capture afterwards and check that the content you care about is actually there.
• For something important, save it in a second archive too, such as archive.today, which handles some sites differently.
• Remember captures are public. Don't save pages with personal information you wouldn't want shared.

Finding saved pages later

Paste the original URL into the Wayback Machine at web.archive.org to see every capture of it on a calendar. Captures made with Save Page Now usually show up quickly, though it can take a little while for a new capture to appear in the calendar. For finding posts that have since been deleted, see how to find a deleted X post using web archives.