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September 24

Retrieving data from the wayback machine.

I need to know how I can grab for my own leisurely research the last known full version of a website no longer online but archived at the waybackmachine. I've unfortunately been away from a PC for 6 or 7 years and I'm lost as a fart in a whirlwind. I was last using win7 and now trying to learn 11. Help a techno peasant out? TIA! Brad (talk) 20:28, 24 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Brad101: I find the Wayback Machine browser extensions useful for this. They're listed at https://web.archive.org/ under "Tools". Visiting any website with one of these extensions active will enable searching and visiting archived versions if they are available. — ClaudineChionh (she/her · talk · contribs · email) 00:26, 25 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

If there is no extension for your favourite browser, you

can prepend https://web.archive.org/*/ to the url of an archived web page. For example, visiting

https://web.archive.org/*/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Computing

allows you to find all archived versions of this page, from August 29, 2006, up to the p[resent. --Lambiam 14:51, 25 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

To clarify... I want to bring all of the archived data down to my local machine. I need to know how to do that. Thanks. Brad (talk) 20:01, 25 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

https://superuser.com/questions/828907/how-to-download-a-website-from-the-archive-org-wayback-machine has several answers from various years. They may be too complex for you. --Error (talk) 23:20, 25 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]