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URL Search & Replay Timelines

By the end of this guide, you will have: Understood how to perform Organisational level/Profile level URL searches and view Replay Timelin...

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Written by Evie Lynch
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By the end of this guide, you will have:

Understood how to perform Organisational level/Profile level URL searches and view Replay Timelines in MirrorWeb Insight.

Prerequisites

Before starting this guide, please ensure that you have the following information:

  • Log-in credentials to MirrorWeb Insight

  • Access to the Web Module and archived web instances

Running an Organisation Level URL search

  1. From the Insight dashboard, navigate to the Web Module and click on the πŸ” Search sub-module in the sidebar.

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  1. In the URL box, input the website URL you want to search. This search will be run across all profiles within your organisation. You do not need to include the http(s):// protocol, and results will not be affected if you include this prefix.

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  1. The results page shows every web profile that has contained the target URL, as well as the number of instances where the URL was captured. Select a web profile to view the specific captures of the webpage within that profile.

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  1. Select a date from the Timeline page to navigate to the captured webpage on that date.

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  1. Browse through the archive on that date.

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  1. The calendar icon on the right-hand side of the replay banner returns you to the timeline page for the profile the current instance belongs to.

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  1. To export a snapshot document of the archived page, click on Additional actions at the top right and select Export page. You can download it in either PFD or PNG formats.

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  2. To download the source of the page rendered in replay, click on Additional actions at the top right and select Download page source. First, make sure the page has fully loaded; otherwise, you may get an incomplete export.

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Running a Profile-level URL search

  1. From the Insight dashboard, navigate to the Web Module and click on the Sites sub-module in the sidebar. Select a profile from the list.

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  1. Click the πŸ” Search button in the top right to open a URL search view.

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  1. Enter a search term in the modal that appears. You can search exact or base partial URLs i.e www.murrirweb.com from this modal. Click a result to open the Timeline view for that page.

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  1. Select a date from the Timeline page to navigate to the captured webpage on that date.

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  1. Selecting any of the highlighted date entries here will take you through to the specific instance selected

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