Contact Web Archive support

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If the site owner contacts support, all existing information about the resource will be removed from the Internet archive. Also, crawlers will not scan the site in the future. To request complete removal of the site from the Wayback Machine , you must write to [email protected] and specify the domain name in the message text.

Block access using robots.txt file
With the help of the robots.txt file, you can mobile phone number usa close access only for web crawlers. This will stop them from scanning the site, and information about the resource will not be archived in the Internet in the future. However, it is important to consider that previously scanned material will remain in the Wayback Machine, and users will be able to see how the site looked before.

To deny access, you need to add the following directive to the robots.txt file:

User agent: ia_archiver

Disallow: /

User-agent:ia_archiver-web.archive.org

Disallow: /

The robots.txt file must be in the root directory of the domain. Also, web crawlers do not visit sites that are password protected.

How to restore a website from a web archive?
You can restore content from the web archive if your site has been lost or hacked and there is no backup available. There are several options for restoring a site using the Wayback Machine.

Copy content manually
The web archive of sites does not provide services for storing backup copies and restoring resources. There is no built-in functionality that allows you to quickly access the history of the site. But it is possible to manually copy the text and code of pages, as well as save images.

To do this, go to the Wayback Machine, right-click and select View page source. Copy the code and paste it into a text editor, where you can save it as an HTML file.

Copy content using script
Restoring the HTML pages of a website separately is quite a labor-intensive process. To simplify and speed it up, use special scripts that allow you to get all the contents of the website at once.