Archive.today is an on-demand web archiving service that preserves exact snapshots of web pages—including dynamic, JavaScript-heavy sites—via multiple domains and a Tor address, while ignoring robots.txt and often capturing paywalled content.
Run as a largely one-person, privately funded operation with opaque finances, it faces recurring reliability issues, a DNS dispute with Cloudflare over EDNS Client Subnet, censorship in several countries, and continuing legal and ethical scrutiny.
Valuable but fragile, the prudent approach is to use archive.today alongside other archives—and keep local copies—to ensure continuity if the service suffers outages or disappears.
