[GH-ISSUE #716] Question: Is there a way to retry a failed archive method on an existing snapshot? #3473

New issue

Closed

opened 2026-03-14 23:04:55 +03:00 by kerem · 2 comments

kerem commented

2026-03-14 23:04:55 +03:00

Owner

Originally created by @Karunamon on GitHub (Apr 19, 2021).
Original GitHub issue: https://github.com/ArchiveBox/ArchiveBox/issues/716

Imagine archiving a website that discriminates against wget or curl as clients (sadly common). The usual fix for this is to change your user agent to omit any mention of those tools.

Once I've changed the user agent configuration setting, is there a way to retry only the failed archive method on an otherwise successful snapshot without rerunning the whole thing?

Originally created by @Karunamon on GitHub (Apr 19, 2021). Original GitHub issue: https://github.com/ArchiveBox/ArchiveBox/issues/716 Imagine archiving a website that discriminates against wget or curl as clients (sadly common). The usual fix for this is to change your user agent to omit any mention of those tools. Once I've changed the user agent configuration setting, is there a way to retry only the failed archive method on an otherwise successful snapshot without rerunning the whole thing?

kerem closed this issue

2026-03-14 23:05:00 +03:00

kerem commented

2026-03-14 23:05:06 +03:00

Author

Owner

@pirate commented on GitHub (Apr 19, 2021):

It will never re-archive with methods that have previously succeeded, it only retries ones that failed previously. Just click Pull in the UI, or run archivebox update https://example.com/snapshot/url/here.

@pirate commented on GitHub (Apr 19, 2021): It will never re-archive with methods that have previously succeeded, it only retries ones that failed previously. Just click Pull in the UI, or run `archivebox update https://example.com/snapshot/url/here`. ![image](https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/511499/115290793-f321bf80-a121-11eb-97b0-9d2cde6bae04.png)

kerem commented

2026-03-14 23:05:11 +03:00

Author

Owner

@Karunamon commented on GitHub (Apr 20, 2021):

Aha, wasn't aware of that behavior. Thanks!

@Karunamon commented on GitHub (Apr 20, 2021): Aha, wasn't aware of that behavior. Thanks!

No milestone

No project

No assignees

1 participant

Notifications

Due date

The due date is invalid or out of range. Please use the format "yyyy-mm-dd".

No due date set.

Dependencies

No dependencies set.

Reference

starred/ArchiveBox#3473

No description provided.

Rows
Columns