hartator/wayback-machine-downloader

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5930 stars · 805 forks observed · 2026-08-28

What it is AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, 2026-08-29, confidence not recorded

A Ruby command-line tool that downloads an entire website from the Internet Archive Wayback Machine, restoring original files and directory structure. It supports timestamp filtering, regex include/exclude filters, concurrency, and JSON listing of archived snapshots.

Use cases

• recover a lost website from the wayback machine
• download an entire archived website
• restore old site files from internet archive snapshots
• download only snapshots within a date range
• list archived urls of a site as json
• rebuild a defunct website with original directory structure

When to choose

• you need to recover a site whose hosting or content is gone
• you want original files rather than Wayback Machine rewritten pages
• you need filtering by timestamp, regex, or specific urls
• you prefer a simple installable gem with no heavy dependencies

When to avoid

• the site is still live and you can crawl it directly
• you need a GUI or non-CLI workflow
• you need to download Wayback Machine's rewritten/annotated page versions
• you need a maintained tool with active feature development

Facets

cli-tool · maturity maintenance

web-scraping cli http-client crawlers web-development developer-tools ruby cli cross-platform wayback-machine internet-archive website-archival site-recovery ruby-gem command-line

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