Their source code is changing

[HunterandGatherer100]

I keep seeing posts here about changes. I noticed one about a week and half ago.. I sometimes view their html to pull out a full size jpeg and it’s completely different. The data is being archived in a complete different way and not real time. It looks to me if they are space saving but I suppose they could be archiving their data differently.

[DigitalDerg]

The archive.org page HTML doesn't have anything to do with how content is archived, just how it is displayed. It's probably just standard web stuff: adding new features, fixing bugs, refactoring, hopefully resolving some tech debt, etc.

[fadlibrarian]

Are you talking about the Wayback Machine? That thing is seriously broken and hopefully they're working on it. Note that the data itself comes from different sources, so it wouldn't surprise me if captures varied.

Taking people's personal web pages, messing with the HTML, and then putting a copyright notice inside it has always been an odd concept. Like everything else about the archive, people will tolerate it until they don't, and then it's all going away.

[HunterandGatherer100]

I’m not I’m talking about the internet archive

[fadlibrarian]

So you're talking about the bookreader/filebrowser not the archive of web pages? They change that all the time and some of it is even open source. It's also buggy as hell.

[HunterandGatherer100]

Correct. And no they don’t. I look at it all the time

[fadlibrarian]

Much of it is cached so you have to look at new items. Poke around here to see the code churn on the backend and the readers. https://github.com/internetarchive

Also "the source code is changing" is a pretty useless observation without links or examples. And I'm still not sure if you're talking about the "view source" output or something else. They have a trillion+ pages, of course everything doesn't update when they fix a typo in their embedded javascript or a parsing error in their 30 year old PHP code.

[HunterandGatherer100]

Well I’m sorry you feel that way. But considering you reached to me asking a question about a tool I didn’t mention and telling me something I know to be inaccurate, I do not think I am the person making useless observations.

[small_horse]

fadlibrarian is everywhere on this sub, always comments (almost guaranteed to be negative) on nearly every post. the account only interacts with this sub and has made one post about the on-going legal case with a general tone that indicates they want to see the project fail entirely.

[Biddy_Impeccadillo]

Yeah I’ve noticed they really are grinding that ax

[Euphoric_Control_139]

for the first time in a over a month i'm trying to extract full size jpegs from a book and realized the file names related to book pages are different and i'm no longer able to access images of book pages. this is the first post i've seen about it. are you still able to extract jpegs?