Restoring the content of an expired website

[DomJohnny]

Hi All,

What would be the most straight forward way to restore an expired website's content.

I'd be setting up the domain on a wordpress platform.

So far it looks like domrecovery.com can do the job but does anybody else have any insight into restoring an expired website?

Thanks!

 

[keanokeano is verified member.]

You can often find a snapshot of a live website over time by sticking the domain in here https://archive.org/web/

Most likely won't have the full site, but you can usually get the homepage and most of the important bits of navigation

 

[DomJohnny]

You can often find a snapshot of a live website over time by sticking the domain in here https://archive.org/web/

Most likely won't have the full site, but you can usually get the homepage and most of the important bits of navigation

Thanks, i'm aware of the wayback machine but looking for more of a software solution that can retrieve and upload an entire site.

 

[deedee is verified member.]

Is it still online or you have cached pages somewhere ?

 

[DomJohnny]

Is it still online or you have cached pages somewhere ?

It's not online but all the history is on the wayback archive

 

[deedee is verified member.]

If you're on Mac theres an app called sitesucker that works well. You may be able to use that on wayback

 

[keanokeano is verified member.]

I know you can use something like Wget to retrieve and download a live website. Whether that could be used on the wayback machine is another matter. Not used it in ages...

 

[martin-s]

Uhh, copyright? You don't own the expired content of a site you've just caught.

 

[DomJohnny]

Uhh, copyright? You don't own the expired content of a site you've just caught.

I know, i'll change the content but need the pages.

 

[kodak]

https://github.com/hartator/wayback-machine-downloader