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Detect unsuitable archive snapshots
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While it is not (yet) possible for the IABot to check whether an archive snapshot is a suitable source, there are cases where IABot adds a link to a snapshot which is broken in a way which should be reasonably easy to detect.

This task collects these cases and gives an overview.

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I believe that these issues can also be solved by running a third-party service which has the necessary access through IABot's API. At least for T191276 and T194604, this should be straightforward and I'm happy to try creating a small script once 2.0 is released.

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(Removing Tracking-Neverending tag as per its description. Maybe you meant Epic or something similar.)

My bot WaybackMedic does check for these (robots.txt, excluded from the archive, many other cases) and is able to replace them with new archives at a different provider.