Questions tagged [wayback-machine]

Use for questions about computer problems related to the interaction with Wayback Machine a web application from The Internet Archive (https://archive.org) that archives web pages, i.e. problems to download a web page. Questions about the normal use of the Wayback Machine are off-topic, the might be on-topic in Web Applications SE. Questions about the use of the Wayback Machine API might belong to Stack Overflow.

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How to download a complete website from the Internet Archive’s Wayback Machine?

I want to get all the files for a given website at the Internet Archive’s Wayback Machine. Reasons might include: The original author did not archived his own website and it is now offline, I want to make a public cache from it. I am the original…
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How to: Download a page from the Wayback Machine over a specified interval

What I mean is to download each page available from the Wayback Machine over a specified time period and interval. For example, I want to download each page available from each day from nature.com from January of 2012 to December of 2012. (Not…
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Download website from the WayBack Machine

I found an excellent website on the WayBack machine which currently doesn't work and the domain is for sale. I wanted to use it offline. I tried using WinHTTrack, but it only saves the homepage, because of the structure of the WayBack Machine. I am…
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Extract all LINKS, not webpages, from external website?

I want to archive an external website in Wayback Machine. You can do that by uploading a Google Sheet with links to all pages you want to archive. How can I, either using a Mac or some webservice (I assume), crawl a site and extract the links to a…
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How to browse a site downloaded with wayback_machine_downloader?

I read the discussion at How to download a website from the archive.org Wayback Machine? and followed instructions at https://github.com/hartator/wayback-machine-downloader to install the wayback_machine_downloader and used it to successfully…
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Why do certain Firefox extensions that rely on external web sites, e.g., Boomerang amd Wayback Machine, not work?

Why do certain Firefox extensions that rely on external web sites, such as Boomerang amd Wayback Machine, not work? No error messages are displayed, they just silently fails.
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Trying to Download a flash application to run offline

Background Since, flash support is ending one of my favorite tools to have on hand, www.pixlr.com/editor (Good old flash version), will likely shut down soon. Attempted Solutions I have tried to go to the media tab in Mozilla Firefox and download…