How to Recover the images from an expired domain?

thatvong · Dec 15, 2019

Hi everyone,
as the title, Does anyone know how to recover the images from an expired domain?
I used web.archie.org to check history of the expired domain. However, many images cannot be recovered manually. So I wonder can I re-cover the images?
any advice for me!
Thanks in advance

xcodes · Dec 15, 2019

Mostly that is no possible you can try google images if your website was properly indexed. But google caches only low quality images as your source images are dead.
gud luck.

BassTrackerBoats · Dec 15, 2019

You can sometimes get lucky with archive.org.

Gogol · Dec 15, 2019

BassTrackerBoats said:
You can sometimes get lucky with archive.org.

Yeah, that's the only way afaik. I have been able to recover whole sites using the same.

BassTrackerBoats · Dec 15, 2019

Gogol said:
Yeah, that's the only way afaik. I have been able to recover whole sites using the same.

Sometimes the images do not show - I just checked a site I shut down in 2007 and some of the images are up and some are not available.

Funny thing to read the content as it looks like I knew what I was doing though.

thatvong · Dec 15, 2019

Gogol said:
Yeah, that's the only way afaik. I have been able to recover whole sites using the same.

That's in case your article still has index. So about the articles are de-index on Google?

thatvong · Dec 15, 2019

xcodes said:
Mostly that is no possible you can try google images if your website was properly indexed. But google caches only low quality images as your source images are dead.
gud luck.

That's right! I tried to search on Google. It is really not feasible

Gogol · Dec 15, 2019

thatvong said:
That's in case your article still has index. So about the articles are de-index on Google?

Well I don't think it matters whether the site is deindexed or not, when it comes to being in archive.org (I could be wrong). If a site/page was crawled, it will remain there.

I also remember sharing my archive scraper script in bhw which could rip off whole sites. Go through my thread history and try it out (if it still works lol).. You have nothing to lose.

thatvong · Dec 15, 2019

Gogol said:
Well I don't think it matters whether the site is deindexed or not, when it comes to being in archive.org (I could be wrong). If a site/page was crawled, it will remain there.

I also remember sharing my archive scraper script in bhw which could rip off whole sites. Go through my thread history and try it out (if it still works lol).. You have nothing to lose.

I don't think so. In fact, Archive can't show the images when those images no longer exist

BassTrackerBoats · Dec 15, 2019

thatvong said:
I don't think so. In fact, Archive can't show the images when those images no longer exist

Yes it can; I checked an old site from 2007 and it showed some of the images and they are not anywhere but on that site.

Pictures I took of projects I funded back then and uploaded to that site and no where else.

Gogol · Dec 15, 2019

thatvong said:
I don't think so. In fact, Archive can't show the images when those images no longer exist

As I said, I am not 100% sure; so I won't counter you on that.

Still, give it a go.. Should take around 10 mins lol..
Oh, and here's my scraper
https://www.blackhatworld.com/seo/get-archive-org-domain-scraper.958271/

puodee80 · Dec 15, 2019

xcodes said:
Mostly that is no possible you can try google images if your website was properly indexed. But google caches only low quality images as your source images are dead.
gud luck.

Thanks for authentic opinion

thatvong · Dec 15, 2019

BassTrackerBoats said:
Yes it can; I checked an old site from 2007 and it showed some of the images and they are not anywhere but on that site.

Pictures I took of projects I funded back then and uploaded to that site and no where else.

Is your website still active?

BassTrackerBoats · Dec 15, 2019

thatvong said:
Is your website still active?

It's been down since 2007 - 12 years.

thatvong · Dec 15, 2019

Gogol said:
As I said, I am not 100% sure; so I won't counter you on that.

Still, give it a go.. Should take around 10 mins lol..
Oh, and here's my scraper

Thank you! I just tried it on the website: archive.org. Let me see

thatvong · Dec 15, 2019

BassTrackerBoats said:
It's been down since 2007 - 12 years.

I don't know why, but I tried to check it on archive.org from most recent until the year it was first published. many images cannot be displayed

thatvong · Dec 15, 2019

Gogol said:
As I said, I am not 100% sure; so I won't counter you on that.

Still, give it a go.. Should take around 10 mins lol..
Oh, and here's my scraper

Can you help me install archive-domain-scraper? I just download the zip file from github.com

Red Yonko · Dec 15, 2019

A question, the thread, created to my head, why archive.org is so slow and doesn't have all the images? I used to use it too much in the past and i remember that issue.

Also, OP try putting all the dates from archive.org, if your domain was kinda "famous". Web.archive.org saves more often from high traffic websites.

Gogol · Dec 15, 2019

thatvong said:
Can you help me install archive-domain-scraper? I just download the zip file from github.com

Just follow the instructions in that thread. Basically you need wamp server/xampp server to run it (on windows). Unzip in a directory and access via your browser (e.g. localhost/folder_where_files_were_extracted).

Let me know of you face any problem.

thatvong · Dec 15, 2019

Gogol said:
Just follow the instructions in that thread. Basically you need wamp server/xampp server to run it (on windows). Unzip in a directory and access via your browser (e.g. localhost/folder_where_files_were_extracted).

Let me know of you face any problem.

Is it works like archived.org?

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