Services
Website restoration from web archive
Site is gone, no backups — we pull the latest version from the Wayback Machine, rebuild it, and put it back online on new hosting.
What's included
- Extracting HTML, CSS, JS, images from Wayback Machine
- Stitching a working version from snapshots across dates
- Restoring structure: pages, menu, internal links
- Cleaning up legacy code and trackers
- Moving to current hosting with SSL
- Adapting for modern browsers
- Baseline SEO check: meta, sitemap, hreflang
Site is down, the host lost the database, the domain got reclaimed and returned — common stories. If the Wayback Machine has a recent working snapshot, we can pull the content from there and rebuild a functioning site.
When this works
- The site was static or WordPress without heavy interactivity
- The archive has reasonably complete snapshots — homepage and at least 70-80% of internal pages
- Dynamic features (login, cart, search) can be rebuilt or dropped
When it does not work
- The site was a JavaScript SPA — Wayback indexes those poorly
- Content was behind login — never made it into the archive
- Owner asked archive.org to remove the site via robots.txt
What is included
- Snapshot audit in Wayback Machine plus a check of archive.today and Google cache
- Asset download via wget or wayback-machine-downloader pinned to specific dates
- Static build or deployment into WordPress/CMS
- Code cleanup: removing third-party trackers, widgets, ad scripts
- Deployment to new hosting plus Let's Encrypt SSL
- Redirect rules from old URLs if anything moved
- Sitemap, robots.txt, baseline schema.org
Technical stack
- Extraction — wayback-machine-downloader, wpull, custom Python scripts for problem cases
- HTML cleanup — BeautifulSoup to strip Wayback banners and trackers
- Images — WebP/AVIF optimization, lazy loading
- Hosting — chosen by load and budget
- SSL — Let's Encrypt with auto-renewal