User:CaptureBot4

This user is a bot to archive links. It is operated by Carpetsmoker. It runs every hour, on the hour. To disable the bot, block it. Please uncheck "Automatically block the last IP address used by this user" and "Prevent account creation".

Successor for Capturebot2 which is missing and presumed lost.

It does two related things:

• You can use the the <capture> and <votecp> tags as before. It also saves the pages to archive.is and puts the link on the file description page.
• It finds links used in the {{a}} template and tells archive.is to archive them.

The bot will run once every hour; so it may take a while before your changes are picked up.

How do I...

Test it?

Use User:CaptureBot4/sandbox.

Tell it to capture a link?

Use the <capture> tag; e.g. <capture>http://example.com</capture> will produce: http://example.com^img.

Tell it to archive a link?

Use {{a}}; e.g. {{a|http://example.com|Example webpage}} which will produce Example webpage^[a w]

Capture the same page again?

Vaporize the file and make a change to the page with the <capture> tag (this will make it show up in Special:RecentChanges).

Store two different versions of a page?

The filename is based on the URL; so change it a little. Usually adding &v=2 or #v-1 should do the trick.

Run it after you've LANCB-ed and everything is broken?

Use the source code.

Do anything else with it?

You can't. Sorry :-(

Known issues

• Redirects aren't followed in <capture> tags; so <capture>http://rationalwiki.org</capture> will NOT work, but <capture>http://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Main_Page</capture> will. This is a wkhtml2image limitation.