TheWaffleHax

Now it does. Try it now :)

Because, archive.is doesn't work on every site.

Yeah, it won't work on 100% of articles, but I've tested it on a ton of other sites (NYT, WSJ, 404Media, medium, bbc, wired, WashingtonPost, Reuters, Bloomberg, several local news sites, and a few extras) . I will try to get this one working, but I can't get every single site working, there's millions of news sites out there, but I made sure all the top ones were working.

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Yeah, hard subscriber paywalls just isn't possible. I've tried everything. 404media paid only is one of the few sites that wallhop can't bypass.

Good guesses. Crawler spoofing and pulling content that’s only hidden client-side are both in the mix, but you’re right that they aren’t enough for the bigger sites. For what it’s worth, NYT works reliably right now and WSJ is hit or miss, so WSJ is still the hard one.

I’m going to stay a little vague on the rest, because anything I describe in detail here is something a publisher can patch by Monday. The general idea is to treat each site as its own problem: several methods per request, a check on whether the article actually came back (not just a teaser), and on to the next method if it didn’t.

On archive.is: yes, the CAPTCHA is the annoying part. Volume is low enough that it’s manageable, and it’s a last resort rather than the main path.

Yeah, an extension is sometimes easier. My site's audience is for people who mainly browse on mobile or just don't feel like installing extensions. But wallhop.io uses a lot of the same methods that extension does.

That would be a good idea! Yeah I actually plan on adding it in.

Eh... if/when I get a shutdown notice/C&D, I will shut it down immedietly. They usually only sue if you ignore a C&D. I had a movie piracy site that functioned for the most for over a year, but once I got a C&D in my mailbox, I shut it down.

Yeah, on my dev.to article about it... I did say that if there's a publication that you read on a regular basis, you should pay and subscribe. This tool is mostly for reading an article that a friend sent you to and to use one-off.

Thanks for bringing it to my attention! I will tinker around with it and try to find a bypass for this site and implement it into wallhop!