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make topanswers.xyz compatible with web.archive.org

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Pax

It seems like web.archive.org can't archive TA properly: [example](https://web.archive.org/web/20210219234818/https://topanswers.xyz/python?q=1559).

![Screen Shot 2021-03-09 at 10.40.29 AM.png](/image?hash=fd7476834eb3faefb33496d6a9b3bede616cec4d6ab775c7b92ce0b1a1c4e9bb)

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PeterVandivier

appending a sensible `[System.Web.HttpUtility]::HtmlDecode` perhaps for this example  
![blob](/image?hash=05f3bfbc32ccabf30079e30c36af24154a2c4e7b50efcc408322ae57c6c902f9)

PeterVandivier

![blob](/image?hash=e2cd94f390265c7fd549ef37b4713aa97f29463a2ebc4b3796e223f9076ede0f)

PeterVandivier

surely not _useful_ but... related to [this exchange](https://chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/179?m=61440203#61440203), the following code snippet should dump the useful content of the wayback archive  
  
```powershell  
$archiveUrl = "https://web.archive.org/web/20210219234818/https://topanswers.xyz/python?q=1559"
$archive = Invoke-WebRequest $archiveUrl
$HTML = New-Object -Com "HTMLFile"
[string]$htmlBody = $archive.Content
$HTML.write([ref]$htmlBody)  
$HTML.getElementsByClassName('markdown')[0].innerHTML
```

joulev

I wonder what went wrong - I can still read, at least the question, in the inspector.  
  
![blob](/image?hash=eb2060d03afc3b8b01033adf6d0b647838325a6a0cd0344b0b1b5fbf756b70f2)

Jack Douglas

@Pax, re: [your question](#question), yes that is a shame!

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