Overview
Site owners or maintainers can redirect automatically to content within Archive-It partners’ web archives when the same content is no longer available on their live website and/or active links break. Live servers may be configured optionally to return missing pages as redirections to the same page as it appears in an Archive-It partner’s account or specific collection.
Prerequisites
Site owners must retain the domain name on the live web in order to control inbound requests, but may otherwise decommission sites that they wish to redirect to archives thereafter.
Instructions
To retrieve all archives of any page from the collections in an Archive-It account, you can direct traffic to the Wayback URL for the page by replacing its collection number with org-[account number] and the specific time stamp with * like so:
Alternatively, you can direct to the most recent capture of any page by default, by instead collapsing the timestamp like so:
For further options to customize the destination of custom redirects to Archive-It web archives, see the guide to Archive-It’s Wayback index API.
Outcome
When your redirects are implemented, a user accessing a link will be redirected to the Wayback calendar page or to the most recent capture. For instance, the U.S. National Science Federation redirects viewers of https://www.nsf.gov/statistics/seind14/ to the archived capture at https://wayback.archive-it.org/5902/20231214031351/https://www.nsf.gov/statistics/seind14/.
Redirection Service
Internet Archive provides an optional paid service that works automatically to redirect visitors from a missing webpage to an archived version of it. The service can redirect users either to a specific archived webpage or to a list of timespecific versions of that archived webpage. Read an overview and contact us to learn more about the service options.
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