Well dang, I thought it would just be a worse archive.today (yes the owner doesn't like that it's used for piracy so much), but wallhop works on wsj, ft, and nytimes. It's quite convenient because it doesn't have the recaptcha from archive.today, I'm curious to see how long it lasts.
It really should be quite easy to make one of these. I mean there's only so much new articles every day. If you just had one account it should be able to get the content on sites with hard paywalls.
Wallhop doesn't have a hard, hard paywall bypass? Maybe it's just not been attempted yet, but 404media paid only is not bypassed. For example: https://www.404media.co/heres-the-video-for-our-seventh-foia...
BPWC works for WSJ, Nytimes but not ft. Archive.today works for NYT, FT, and occasionally WSJ.
> it doesn't have the recaptcha
Agreed that makes it quite nice! Though I wonder how long that will last, since I imagine archive.today is dealing with some problems that necessitated it.
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.
> Well dang, I thought it would just be a worse archive.today
OP states on their blog [1]:
> If every method fails, fall back to an archived copy from archive.is.
I'm wondering why I shouldn't just stick with archive.is then.
[1] https://dev.to/wafflehacker/12ftio-is-gone-so-i-built-my-own...
Because, archive.is doesn't work on every site.
> If you just had one account it should be able to get the content on sites with hard paywalls.
Might have to strip articles down to just text and perhaps even use a few accounts to prevent watermarking that detects you.