Web Science and Digital Libraries Research Group

Results of archiving web pages using the Wayback Machine Google Sheets service One of the greatest services the Internet Archive (IA) offers is the Save Page Now (SPN) service . It is easy to use and it was completely overhauled in 2019 with added features . However, the UI is limited to archiving a single URL at a time. To overcome this limitation, the IA launched the  Google Sheets service , which allows you to submit a Google Sheet with the first column full of URLs (up to 5,000 URLs), and it will archive them all in the Wayback Machine. I needed to archive 1.5 million URLs that I collected from four Arabic and English news websites published between 1999 and 2022 . This is obviously not doable one URL at a time, but the IA's Google Sheets service makes it possible. because I can archive 5,000 URLs at a time and up to 30.000 URLs (six sheets) per day. The first step is to create a Google sheet and paste the URLs you need to archive in the first column (one URL in each row)...

  Figure 1: A screen capture where all the tweets in the view-port are filled with “Fact-check label” (left) and “Violated Twitter Rules” label (right). To curb the spread of misinformation on their platform, Twitter warns users by labeling the tweets with misleading content . Twitter labels first came to light on May 26, 2020 when Twitter decided to assign one of their fact-check labels to a tweet from U.S. President Donald Trump. A few days later, on May 29, 2020 Twitter labeled another tweet of Trump for violating Twitter rules about glorifying violence. In addition to labeling the tweet, Twitter also disabled the engagements with this post. In Figure 1, you can see how all of his tweets in the view-port are labeled. We have used the account @realDonaldTrump for this study as this account is frequently archived. As of November 25, 2020, there are 160 tweets authored by @realDonaldTrump that have been labeled by Twitter. For this study, we have broadly categorized the two typ...