[Need Help] Wayback Machine to WP

nahid133

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I want to build a site from wayback machine & i need it to be on WP.
I tried YT for help didn't find anything helpful may be i missed.
If anyone know a video or pdf guide please share.
download from archive.org & build it in wordpress.

Thanks
nahid
 
you cant copy whole site at once. you can copy and paste all post from wayback to your new wp site.

I dont know if there is any automode software.
 
anyone else

You will not find one click Archive to WP tool. (Even if the archived site is built using WP)

  • Copy the content to a notepad.
  • Create each post with the same post URL (permalink)
If the WordPress is not a strict requirement and you know some HTML, you can use https://www.httrack.com/ to scrape it. Remove the archive headers and host it. (with your link of course)
 
Hire a freelancer to do the site restore.
 
You should just hire someone to do it for You it will save You a lot of time and agrevastion
 
Unfortunately you will not find a one click way to do this because of the many possible ways a website could be built (the site you are restoring). What you need to do is restore the website first, then parse each page of the restoration and extract the meta data (title, images, content, etc...) you need/want to go into your WordPress page and save it to a config file. You can then create another script that reads your config file and could use WP cli to add the new pages or you can build an XML or CSV file to import the pages.

The important and most time consuming piece will be parsing the restored website to extract the content because not every page will be structured the same. I like to use Node JS and the cheerio module because it uses CSS like selectors to help you target pieces of the html to collect your meta data. Python and PHP have similar libraries if that’s your language of choice.

Lastly, you then need to decide if you want to make all of the content WP Pages or Posts, and optionally which categories to apply to them if they are posts.

If none of this makes sense to you then hire someone to.
 
thanks everyone for your input.
maybe i just hire someone to do that
or i just simply register the domain install wp & copy content from archive (most of the time archive don't have all the pages/posts archived)
 
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