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Comment by acqbu | Hacker News Reader

Couldn't this functionality be automized somehow? Every time there's a link on HN to a paywalled article, I have to the same dance:

1. Click on the link

2. Find out it's behind a paywall

3. Go back in the browser

4. Click on the "comments" link.

5. Look for the post that has the archive.is version of it.

6. Click on that.

Surely that could somehow be collapsed into just a single click?

Open the current page in archive.li:

    javascript:(function()%7B%0A%20window.location%20%3D%20%22https%3A%2F%2Farchive.li%2F%22%20%2B%20window.location%3B%0A%7D)()

You can go in the browser URL field and type "archive.is/" in front of the URL and press enter after step 2. It'll either redirect you to an existing archive page or lets you create one if one doesn't exist.

For some reason it isn't loading for me, but if you use a search engine that supports bangs in your URL bar (DDG or Kagi) you can prefix the url with !ais and just search that. Same with !wbm or !ia for Wayback Machine

I get good use out of this browser extension: https://github.com/arantius/resurrect-pages

Sites are usually archived already.

It cant be a first party feature.

Here's how this could be done as a HN-side feature with zero interaction with archive.is servers:

* Compile a list of domains like nytimes.com that have soft paywalls.

* When a link like https://example.com/ is submitted and its domain is on the paywall list, insert [archive](https://archive.is/timegate/https://example.com/) after it in the title area. Just prefix the timegate part and it's a working link.

I usually just start with the comments. If I see an archive link I'll use that (assuming I've determined that the source article is worth reading at all).

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