To archive only Spanish content, for instance, you can use ^.*lang=(?! es).*$ You will need to know the desired language abbreviation to use this rule. You can adjust this regular expression to allow archiving in other languages by changing the language abbreviation in the parentheses. When this rule is added at the collection level, should be listed as the host. If you prefer to prevent multiple languages from archiving, and subsequently from replaying in Wayback, limit the scope of your collection or your specific Twitter seed to block URLs that match the following regular expression: ^.*lang=(?!en).*$ For example, for each original tweet's URL archived in the following format. To ensure that it also archives all of the proper content it finds there, and furthermore to limit it from archiving too much material from remote areas of Twitter, you may apply the following optional scope modifications: Exclude additional languagesįor any given 'tweet,' the page is captured in all languages that the Twitter interface supports. The proper formatting above enables our crawler to access Twitter feeds. If you see this kind of media missing from your earlier Twitter archives, you may apply the above scope adjustment manually and/or in bulk.

Expand scope into include URL if it matches the SURT:.

Default scoping for Twitter seedsīy default, all new Twitter seeds as of May 14, 2019, will have the following scoping rules applied at the seed level, in order to ensure that embedded images, icons, and glyphs are archived: To learn more, please visit Sites with automated scoping rules. New Twitter seeds will have default scoping rules automatically applied at the seed level when they are added to a collection older Twitter seeds can be updated by adding the below scoping rules manually or following these instructions.

Do not add is blocked by a robots exclusion.

Use the HTTPS protocol, not HTTP when formulating your seed.

This allows you to archive only the feed that you specify, rather than all of Twitter!

Add an ending '/' to the url, for example: (with an ending /).

įollow our standard guidance for adding seeds, but remember the following principles: They can take the form of a specific user's feed like, a hashtag feed like or a specific search like. It's important to be specific when selecting your Twitter seeds. How to select and format your Twitter seeds