Are there any useful alternatives to Wayback Machine for finding information/images from dead film/tv websites that I (users) should know about?
(For example, one that might have the images from here archived- to be used as backdrops)
EDIT: Or, one that would help here.
PT 100 的回复
于 2019 年 06 月 15 日 4:23下午
Have you already tried a Google search on a relevant phrase?
tmdb24407783 的回复
于 2019 年 06 月 15 日 6:43下午
Yes, a few times in the past. I don't think I found anything that looked helpful.
PT 100 的回复
于 2019 年 06 月 15 日 11:09下午
The Wayback Machine is the gold standard. If it's not there or in any of the other places in that link, then you probably won't find it.
Zürich Gnome 的回复
于 2019 年 06 月 16 日 2:08上午
The Wayback Machine crawls only those sites that allow crawlers. And it may take a really long time for it to get to crawling small websites--sometimes years. So if a smaller/more obscure website is now defunct, it won't any longer be available on a server, and may never have been crawled. Gone forever, even for the Wayback Machine. Also, I don't think it will keep a dead site indefinitely, even if it did crawl it at some time in the past.
Banana 的回复
于 2019 年 06 月 16 日 8:35下午
I sometimes use https://archive.is as an alternative, but they only archive pages and the search is archaic.
Be careful with images though. I'm assuming they all archive a much lower quality version.
PT 100 的回复
于 2019 年 06 月 17 日 5:59上午
From Wikipedia, re: some of the Internet Archive's limitations, explaining why there is a lot of material missing from the archive that you may wish were there, including images:
"The Wayback Machine does not include every web page ever made due to the limitations of its web crawler. The Wayback Machine cannot completely archive web pages that contain interactive features such as Flash platforms and forms written in JavaScript, because those functions require interaction with the host website."
"The Wayback Machine’s web crawler has difficulty extracting anything not coded in HTML (or one of its variants) which often results in broken hyperlinks and missing images. Due to this, the web crawler cannot archive "orphan pages" that contain no links to other pages. Specific rules governing the Wayback Machine's crawler can only follow a predetermined number of hyperlinks based on a preset depth limit, so it cannot archive every hyperlink on every page."