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Vefsafn.is (Icelandic Web Archive)

Iceland's national web archive, run by the National and University Library, which has harvested the entire .is domain about three times a year since 2004 and holds Iceland-related sites back to 1996. Snapshot lists come from its Memento timemap, and individual captures open as replay links on vefsafn.is, where the viewer may ask you to pass a CAPTCHA. The natural source for the history of Icelandic websites.

Web pages / sites API captcha

Why it’s useful & how it works

FINDING: replay HTML is behind hCaptcha (403) both ways, but the Memento TimeMap returns 200 both ways. Same pattern as archive.today — integrate via TimeMap for existence, hand a direct replay link to the user.

What’s inside

Full .is harvested ~3x/year since 2004; tens of TB+.

API access

Memento TimeMap https://vefsafn.is/timemap/link/ <url> (works) ; replay https://vefsafn.is/ <ts>/<url> (hCaptcha).

Access

May require solving a captcha before it responds.

Homepage

https://vefsafn.is/