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How to read the full text of an archived TMF 'article preview'

Posted: August 24th, 2018, 5:50 pm
by Breelander
In viewtopic.php?f=31&t=13277&p=161230#p161230 I said...
Breelander wrote:...unfortunately the only copy of that article in the Wayback Machine is a truncated preview.

But the full text can (with some difficulty) be extracted from the 'Article Preview' by looking at the source code...


I have now found a better way to read in full any TMF article in the Wayback Machine that was only archived in the period spanning 2012 when TMF UK said...
ARTICLE PREVIEW — For full access, register below, it's free


In your browser, save the web page as seen in the Wayback Machine to your PC. In IE this is...
File > Save as... > Web page complete (*.htm, *.html)

You get a .htm file and a folder, both in the name of the article. Go into the folder and delete Fx_Ukmf.min.js
Now open the .htm file in your browser, you have just deleted the javascript that truncates the article and can read it in full.