Getting past paywalls

Getting past paywalls

Use archive.today to get past paywalls via this script page.

You can do this yourself via this method:

https://archive.is/<target url without http>

example: https://archive.is/fortune.com/2023/01/03/tech-layoffs-2022-pandemic-dotcom-bubble/

Another method is to use Archive Buttons:

https://www.archivebuttons.com

Here are 12 other methods for getting around paywalls.

2 thoughts on “Getting past paywalls

  1. Thanks, Matt, this is awesome! Based on info at https://archive.is/faq, I prepend “https://archive.is/newest/” to the full URL (including http…) in an iOS shortcut to have it available as a Share option in Safari. Looks like there are multiple existing extensions for Firefox.

    1. Since I wrote this, I added stripping any “?” and following characters off the URL to remove tracking garbage and get more page hits at archive.is.

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