Bug: Things not working as expected in static archive i.e. videos, buttons (github action, github pages)

Author: amy-r-ossCreated Sep 2, 2026Updated Sep 3, 2026

I tried archiving a youtube video page, a news page (al jazeera) & a X (twitter) post as static as in documentation on github pages, thankfully dashboard url takes to archived page nice, but ...

in youtube page video dosent show nor does its title image though both are saved in \archive\\users\system\snapshots\20260901\www.youtube.com\06a968de3dbf7942800020c7cf0795e8\ytdlp\ & \archive\\users\system\crawls\20260901\www.youtube.com\06a968de09d1729b8000139d7357f842\snapshots\www.youtube.com\06a968de3dbf7942800020c7cf0795e8\ytdlp\ And buttons arnt working either i.e to close live chat or view description
In al jazeera site archive similarly the buttons arnt working And video headline that displays on right isnt showing nor the alternative ad that shows instead of video headlines(it seems like that video isnt being archived)
all this similar of X (twitter) post video not playing, buttons not working...
However both things that i mentioned for both sites are working in archive created on wayback-machine in same process, but in it for youtube page comments are coming from some other random video & most of the time many of the recommendation video's title images don't load & X (twitter) isnt getting archived at all..

other pages urls given in page do seem to be archived as they open in archive on wayback-machine but dont open on my static hosted archive

And i think this might be the urgently required feature to have an option to not archive on wayback-machine or delete previously created archives on wayback-machine

for now this was all i had, hopefully i wont have to create another 'issue' :-) ~thankyou

Steps to reproduce

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archivebox list --html --with-headers > index.html
archivebox list --json --with-headers > index.json

Logs or errors

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ArchiveBox Version

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#25 4.995 0.9.35rc363
#25 5.004 ArchiveBox v0.9.35rc363 COMMIT_HASH=c1e6e10 BUILD_TIME=2026-09-02 08:59:29 
#25 5.004 1788339569
#25 5.005 IN_DOCKER=True IN_QEMU=False ARCH=x86_64 OS=Linux 
#25 5.005 PLATFORM=Linux-6.17.0-1022-azure-x86_64-with-glibc2.41 PYTHON=Cpython (venv)
#25 5.007 EUID=911:911 UID=911:911 ARCHIVEBOX_USER=911:911 FS_UID=911:911 FS_PERMS=644 
#25 5.007 FS_ATOMIC=True FS_REMOTE=False
#25 5.008 DEBUG=False IS_TTY=False SUDO=False ID=201c7acc:e10736ce SEARCH_BACKEND=sonic 
#25 5.008 LDAP=False
#25 5.008 
#25 5.008 
#25 5.008  Binary Dependencies:
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#25 5.501   convert                  liteparse               ✅    7.1.1           env    
#25 5.501   postlight-parser         mercury                 ✅    2.2.3           npm    
#25 5.501   papers-dl                papersdl                ✅    0.0.25          uv     
#25 5.501   feedparser               parse_rss_urls          ✅    6.0.12          uv     
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#25 5.501   trafilatura              trafilatura             ✅    2.1.0           uv     
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#25 5.501   ublock                   ublock                  ✅    2026.825.1619   chr…   
#25 5.501   wget                     wget                    ✅    1.25.0          env    
#25 5.501   yt-dlp                   ytdlp                   ✅    2026.8.19       uv     
#25 5.501   ffmpeg                   ytdlp                   ✅    7.1.5           env

How did you install the version of ArchiveBox you are using?

Docker (or Podman/LXC/K8s/TrueNAS/Proxmox/etc)

What operating system are you running on?

Linux (Ubuntu/Debian/Arch/Alpine/etc.)

What type of drive are you using to store your ArchiveBox data?

some of data/ is on a local SSD or NVMe drive
some of data/ is on a spinning hard drive or external USB drive
some of data/ is on a network mount (e.g. NFS/SMB/Ceph/GlusterFS/etc.)
some of data/ is on a FUSE mount (e.g. SSHFS/RClone/S3/B2/Google Drive/Dropbox/etc.)

Docker Compose Configuration

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ArchiveBox Configuration

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Source: ArchiveBox/ArchiveBox

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