Replay mementos of the CNN homepage from the Internet Archives locally without failure.
This project will run on node >= 6.x and to run (npm|yarn) install && ./run.sh.
Be sure to execute chmod +x run.sh if you have not already.
If your on windows (or do not want to use the bash file) simply substitute ./run.sh
with node --harmony index.js.
If you wonder if your current node install can run this project consult node.green.
There are is only one optional argument that can be supplied to program which is --port="new port" defaults to 3000.
Or if Docker is your thing docker pull jberlin/cnn-replay-service
and docker run -p 3000:3000 jberlin/cnn-replay-service
Once started simply navigate to http://localhost:3000 and happy replaying 🎉
There is none. All this project does is proxy the Internet Archives Wayback Machine
for the following URIs http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://www.cnn.com/ and http://web.archive.org/web/<cnn.com URI-M>.
And two slight modifications to the replayed Memento 
The modifications made are described in the section Modifications Made To The Replayed Memento
For a detailed explaination as to why this is necessary see the blog post from the Web Science And Digital Libraries Research Group: 2017-01-20: CNN.com has been unarchivable since November 1st, 2016
CNN has made changes to how the contents of their homepage is loaded. One of the
methods used to accommodate these changes is to set the document.domain property
of the global window object to cnn.com.
This is not allowed when replayed via the Internet Archives Wayback Machine due to the Same Origin Policy of web browsers. Subsequently causing information about how to load the contents of the page to not be made available to the JavaScript responsible for the loading and rendering of it.
Due to this, replaying mementos of the homepage after 2016-11-01T13:15:40 appear
to be an archived about:blank page.
But we can replay these mementos. We have the technology.
We can replay these mementos as archived. With a few modifications 
This project intelligently removes the offending line of JavaScript code
window.document.domain = "cnn.com";from the second inline script tag in the head of the mementos HTML
if it is present at replay time.
The project also dynamically rewrites specific URI-Rs that the Internet Archives own rewrite mechanisms missed to a URI-M corressponding to the datetime of the Memento currently beging replayed.
For example if you were to view a Memento of http://www.cnn.com on 2017-03-10T06:03:34 via this project the archived pages JavaScript would request
/data/ocs/section/_homepage-zone-injection/index.html:homepage-injection-zone-2/views/zones/common/zone-manager.izl
Which this project would rewrite to /web/20170310060334/http://www.cnn.com/data/ocs/section/_homepage-zone-injection/index.html:homepage-injection-zone-2/views/zones/common/zone-manager.izl
Without these rewrites the page content on 2017-03-10T06:03:34 would not be viewable as these URI-Rs are included in the information made available to the archived pages JavaScript by the previous modification made by this project.