useful tool to archive files from wayback-machine

[+arcadeshopper]

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

 

Wayback Machine Downloader

Download an entire website from the Internet Archive Wayback Machine.

Installation

You need to install Ruby on your system (>= 1.9.2) - if you don't already have it. Then run:

gem install wayback_machine_downloader

Tip: If you run into permission errors, you might have to add sudo in front of this command.

Basic Usage

Run wayback_machine_downloader with the base url of the website you want to retrieve as a parameter (e.g., http://example.com):

wayback_machine_downloader http://example.com

How it works

It will download the last version of every file present on Wayback Machine to ./websites/example.com/. It will also re-create a directory structure and auto-create index.html pages to work seamlessly with Apache and Nginx. All files downloaded are the original ones and not Wayback Machine rewritten versions. This way, URLs and links structure are the same as before.

 

Edited October 24, 2017 by arcadeshopper

[+OLD CS1]

Thanks. Might need this to recover my website which disappeared with a hard drive crash.