Hi I need to resurrect an older version of my companies website and I am using archive.org to see the cached version of the website and my question is how do I go about getting the files to put in a subdomain? should I use viewpage source?
inspect element?
This is the version I want to bring back: https://web.archive.org/web/20140104093921/http://iogproducts.com/
Don’t you have backups?
naw I was not left with any…
Wow. That sucks. Someone really dropped the ball on that one…
The quick and dirty method would be to save the web page (Ctrl + S). But that of course will only get you the static content (i.e. once and done). Any code which supports any dynamic content would have to be rebuilt.
By Dynamic You mean things like animations, video or audio.?
well I just need it for reference nothing big…
Nope. I mean like the manner in which articles are created, comments are made, etc.
I was asked to take over a site where I had no access to the server or the old files. I ended up building a new site on a new domain, but still needed all the information from the old one. @Rubble suggested http://www.httrack.com/ to me, which proved invaluable, but I don’t think you could use that on the archive. I just thought I’d mention it anyway, in case I’m wrong.
what about using inspect element and grabbing the sources?
That would be “source” as in “view-source” not as in “content source”.
You could “view source” and “save as”.
Then you could copy any media files you wanted to still use.
But as for any content coming from a database or other files you may be out of luck.
Especially if the site is new enough to be using “routing” instead of “plain” URLs.
Yeah but I also mean this:
It looks like you could use that for CSS and JavaScript files that archive.org is using.
IDK if that means the original site used them.
And it still wouldn’t get any “server-side” script files or a database dump.
Alright
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