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How to automatically retrieve the contents of websites erased or missing

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Very often when you publish content on the Internet, you do not taking into account all the consequences that such action may have, first of all that nothing can be truly removed from the Web, whether it's the pages on his blogs of personal data that lately all love scatter everywhere on Facebook.

Here we see how in practice it is possible, thanks to two free online service used by all, retrieve web content (ranging from single pages to entire site) but in fact have been removed or changed:

  • Wayback Machine is the largest historical presence in the Internet that has a database of over 10 billion web pages. It provides access to historical sites on the contents stored: in this way, even though a site no longer exists or has suffered heavy reinterpretations through Wayback you can still easily reconstruct the evolution and changes over time.
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  • Warrick is an online tool that allows you to retrieve individual pages or entire sites removed from the Internet in a totally automated. And 'Just enter the url of departure and your e-mail, then Warrick will start the process of recovery in asynchronous intelligently exploiting the following sources:
    • Internet Archive (which is also based Wayback Machine)
    • Google's cache
    • Yahoo cache
    • Live Search cache

    At the end of the process, which may take several days (it all depends on the amount of pages), Warrick will send you an email with instructions to download a zip file containing the contents recovered. It 'very interesting that Warrick is also available as downloadable Perl script and therefore manageable directly from your computer via the command line.
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I think the Internet is an incredibly powerful tool, able to eliminate distances and break down borders, but at the same time also hides insidious traps that can be avoided only through the right mix of two basic ingredients:

  • correct information
  • the use of reason ;-)


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5 Responses to "How to automatically retrieve the contents of websites erased or disappeared"
  1. Beast writes:

    I found very interesting article, I did not think there are tools like the Web, perhaps because I never had this need in that regard I wanted to ask if there is one tool that, if I may say so, "replied the operation of the RSS, namely me alerts if a website has changed (for example, I added an article ...), all to avoid going to see each time if there are any updates.
    Thank you.
    Hello.

  2. and writes

    I do not understand how to use Warrick .. I would write the email like you said but can not be mistaken about something, please can you help? It is very very important ...

  3. David writes:

    Hello!
    My question would be quite stupid but for me it is very important. I requested to Warrick to recover an old site as well as instructions. I wanted to ask if the images are retrieved on the site or only the contents of text?
    Thank you in advance for your attention.

  4. David writes:

    @ David: these engines normally get all the static content of a site, then the images should be included.

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