An Update on Wayback Machine Access
- We’ve heard you: “Fix the Wayback Machine!
- The Internet Archive’s Wayback Machine has been hit by waves of high-volume automated traffic, and we’ve put protections in place to keep the service running.
- One recent change: we rewrote the message you see when a request is blocked with a 429 error — the HTTP code that means “too many requests.
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- We’ve heard you: “Fix the Wayback Machine!
- The Internet Archive’s Wayback Machine has been hit by waves of high-volume automated traffic, and we’ve put protections in place to keep the service running.
- One recent change: we rewrote the message you see when a request is blocked with a 429 error — the HTTP code that means “too many requests.
Sources: Archive