Archive-It FAQs

Getting Started

• What is the difference between a host and a website?
• What is a document in Archive-It?

Accounts

• What is my organization number?
• How do I upload a logo to my Archive-It Account?

Collections

• How do I remove seeds from my public collection page?
• How do I add metadata to my seeds?
• Can I move seeds between collections?
• What is the difference between "active" and "inactive" seeds and collections?
• How do I change the crawl frequency of my seeds?
• How can I add more websites, or seeds, to my collection?

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Crawls

• What does HTTP error 61 mean and what can I do about it?
• What are regular expressions and when should I use them?
• How do I stop a seed from being crawled?
• What is data-deduplication and how does it work?
• How do I know how big a crawl will be?

Access

• Why doesn’t my Flash content work?
• How can I view my test crawl results in Wayback?
• Why do I see multiple captures from the same date listed on a Wayback calendar page?
• How can I provide access to my web archives from my institution's site?
• How can I restrict access to archived content?
• How does the full-text search engine work?

Reports and QA

• What are these screenshot:, thumbnail:, and youtube-dl: hosts in my crawl report?
• Can I run Wayback QA or a patch crawl on a test capture?
• How can I block individual hosts within a domain from archiving?
• What are all these strange sites listed in my hosts report?
• What is the difference between a seed and a host?
• Why does my crawl report tell me that URLs were blocked?

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