Archive-It FAQs
Getting Started
Accounts
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?
Crawls
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?