Javascriptlets for Wayback Machine

Quick post today, the following are two javascriptlets for archiving and retrieving pages from the Internet Archive (originally found here). If you aren't familiar with javascriptlets, the general idea is that they function similar to bookmarks but rather than just taking you to a webpage they run some code written in javascript. To add them, open the prompt that you would use to add a webpage to your bookmarks, and copy and paste the code in where the address for the website would typically go.

Saving Pages to Wayback Machine

This first scriptlet "capture(s) a web page as it appears now for use as a trusted citation in the future."

javascript:location.href='http://web.archive.org/save/'+location.href

Get An Archived Version of a Page From The Wayback Machine

This second piece of code is useful for anytime a webpage is down. After adding it you can just click the bookmark you have it saved to, and if someone has previously saved the page to the internet archive, then you can get an archived copy of the webpage.

javascript:void(window.open('https://web.archive.org/web/*/'+location.href));