ArchiveReady provides all interested users a JSON REST API to use the website archivability testing tool via their software.
Example check of https://vbanos.gr/
https://archiveready.com/api?url=https://vbanos.gr
Results sample
{ "test": { "Standards_Compliance": 81, "website_archivability": 81, "Metadata_weight": "MEDIUM", "Standards_Compliance_weight": "MEDIUM", "Accessibility": 74, "Accessibility_weight": "MEDIUM", "Cohesion": 69, "Cohesion_weight": "MEDIUM", "Metadata": 100 }, "url": "https:\/\/vbanos.gr\/welcome\/", "messages": [ { "title": "2 RSS found in your website.", "facets": [ "Accessibility" ], "level": 100, "tag": null, "weight": "LOW", "message": "RSS are an easy way for web bots to learn about available web pages so that they can more intelligently crawl a site.", "ref": "https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/RSS" }, { "title": "Valid Feed https:\/\/vbanos.gr\/en\/feed\/.", "facets": [ "Accessibility", "Standards_Compliance" ], "level": 100, "tag": null, "weight": "MEDIUM", "message": "Feeds which conform with standards have a higher possibility to be parsed correctly.", "ref": "https:\/\/validator.w3.org\/feed\/check.cgi?url=https:\/\/vbanos.gr\/en\/feed\/" }, { "title": "Invalid Feed https:\/\/vbanos.gr\/en\/comments\/feed\/. Located 1 errors, 0 warnings.", "facets": [ "Accessibility", "Standards_Compliance" ], "level": 0, "tag": null, "weight": "MEDIUM", "message": "Feeds which conform with standards have a higher possibility to be parsed correctly.", "ref": "https:\/\/validator.w3.org\/feed\/check.cgi?url=https:\/\/vbanos.gr\/en\/comments\/feed\/" }, { "title": "There are \"Disallow:\" commands in your robots.txt file", "facets": [ "Accessibility" ], "level": 0, "tag": null, "weight": "MEDIUM", "message": "Disallow: \/wp-admin\/
Disallow: commands are used to block web bots from specific website areas. They may cause web archiving problems.", "ref": "https:\/\/www.robotstxt.org\/robotstxt.html" } }
The ArchiveReady API is free for limited / home use.
Large scale use of the API as well as technical and scientific support is available on a fee.