[GH-ISSUE #716] Question: Is there a way to retry a failed archive method on an existing snapshot? #452

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opened 2026-03-01 14:43:42 +03:00 by kerem · 2 comments

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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?

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@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)

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@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!

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[PR #452] [MERGED] Replace index.json with index.sql as the main index #1172

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