Want to retrieve the text of an old website that I took down years ago.
February 10, 2010 2:14 AM Subscribe
I want to retrieve the text of an old website that I took down years ago. It was a WordPress blog. It was hosted on TextDrive (now called Joyent) on an account I also closed years ago. I have found a few random pages of the site on archive.org (Wayback Machine). Is there anywhere else I can look for an archive? Does anyone have any bright ideas about how I can get the text of the site back?
Probably you've thought of this but...a few (if not all) blogging apps allow you to bounce copies of posts to your email address after they're uploaded. Just thinking that if it's an old blog, maybe you used an old email address, one you haven't checked in a while...? Long shot but y'never know.
posted by turgid dahlia at 3:53 AM on February 10, 2010
posted by turgid dahlia at 3:53 AM on February 10, 2010
I mean, you probably know, but I don't.
posted by turgid dahlia at 3:53 AM on February 10, 2010
posted by turgid dahlia at 3:53 AM on February 10, 2010
Maybe contact the people behind some of the older RSS aggregator sites, like Google Reader or Bloglines?
posted by willem at 4:25 AM on February 10, 2010
posted by willem at 4:25 AM on February 10, 2010
Response by poster: @ceririchard Great idea. I've sent off an email to them.
@turgiddahlia Great idea also. Sadly, I did not enable that feature.
@willem Google Reader is too new, and I've done a bunch of searching in Bloglines's archives, but had no luck.
posted by maryrosecook at 4:42 AM on February 10, 2010
@turgiddahlia Great idea also. Sadly, I did not enable that feature.
@willem Google Reader is too new, and I've done a bunch of searching in Bloglines's archives, but had no luck.
posted by maryrosecook at 4:42 AM on February 10, 2010
I assume you've checked Google's cache? (Bit of a long shot, I admit.)
posted by hatmandu at 4:49 AM on February 10, 2010
posted by hatmandu at 4:49 AM on February 10, 2010
Response by poster: @hatmandu Yeah, sadly there is nothing in there.
posted by maryrosecook at 6:45 AM on February 10, 2010
posted by maryrosecook at 6:45 AM on February 10, 2010
Best answer: I've been curious about Warrick, "a utility for reconstructing or recovering a website when a back-up is not available. Warrick will search the Internet Archive, Google, Bing, and Yahoo for stored pages and images and will save them to your filesystem." I don't know anything more about it than that. (You may as well check Yahoo and Bing search anyway, if you haven't already.) Good luck!
posted by Dave 9 at 8:09 AM on February 10, 2010
posted by Dave 9 at 8:09 AM on February 10, 2010
Response by poster: @dave 9 Nice find. It only get me what I had already found on Internet Archive, but it is a very nice tool. Thanks a lot for the help.
posted by maryrosecook at 8:38 AM on February 10, 2010
posted by maryrosecook at 8:38 AM on February 10, 2010
Have you contacted Joyent? Seems like a longshot, but they might have a backup floating around somewhere. They might charge you for the time it takes to dig it up.
posted by adamrice at 8:46 AM on February 10, 2010
posted by adamrice at 8:46 AM on February 10, 2010
Best answer: Did you know Archive.org supports wildcard URL searches? So if your website was at foo.com, you could query the site for "http://foo.com/*" and it will return every archived page from that domain. You can also place the asterisk after subdomains ("http://foo.com/maryrosecook/blog/*") to restrict the search to that section. If you've turned up your "few random pages" by clicking around from the archived copy of your blog's main URL, this search method may turn up some extra orphan pages that aren't directly connected to the homepage.
posted by Rhaomi at 1:10 PM on February 10, 2010
posted by Rhaomi at 1:10 PM on February 10, 2010
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posted by ceri richard at 3:50 AM on February 10, 2010