18 March, 2021

How to download a website from archive.org

How to download a website from archive.org
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    This tutorial will show you how to download an entire website from archive.org. This can be useful in case you break your website and you don’t have a backup, or more recently, if the server is destroyed because of a fire.

    Download and install ruby

    Download this archive and un-zip it:

    https://github.com/hartator/wayback-machine-downloader/archive/e6707a9d8bcd42cf921da4aaf5afe77a13fca7cb.zip

    Open the extracted folder, then open “bin” folder

    Open a terminal window that “bin” folder

    Tips: on windows, you can hold Shift then right click => open powershell window here

    Run this command:

    ruby wayback_machine_downloader http://your-website.com
    

    The program will exit when it’s done downloading your site.

    Downloaded websites are saved under “websites” folder.

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