A short, maintained reference for the specific recovery questions site owners, SEO folks and expired-domain buyers actually e-mail us about. New chapters land when we hit a new question in support often enough to deserve its own page.
Find the right capture date, grab a clean timestamped URL, feed it to a downloader, and end up with a working folder you can re-host. Includes the three common failure modes and how to spot them.
Why the archive rate-limits you, what Retry-After
actually means, and three concrete fixes depending on whether
you’re driving the archive from a browser, a script, or a
hosted downloader.
An honest look at the classic wayback_machine_downloader
Ruby gem, what it still does well, where it breaks on modern
archive traffic, and five alternatives — hosted, scripted,
browser-based — with a feature table.
Our restoration team at waybackrevive.com handles the full recovery — HTML or WordPress. Pricing and terms are on that site.