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Is there any way to download a snapshot of an entire website from the Wayback Machine?

I am aware that we can use wget to recover old website off Wayback Machine (e.g. wget -np -e robots=off --mirror --domains=staticweb.archive.org,web.archive.org http://web.archive.org/web/19970708161549/http://www.slackworks.com/) but I wonder whether it's possible to do so directly from the Wayback Machine website.

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It is not possible to download a snapshot from the Wayback Machine directly as it is not allowed by their Terms of Use.

From their FAQs:

Can people download sites from the Wayback?

Our terms of use specify that users of the Wayback Machine are not to copy data from the collection.

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I am currently using the following bookmarklet:

var f = function(jsn){window.location.href=jsn.archived_snapshots.closest.url;};var d = document,z=d.createElement('script'),b=d.body,l=d.location;z.setAttribute('src','https://archive.org/wayback/available?url='+encodeURIComponent(l.href)+'&callback=f');z.setAttribute('type', "application/javascript");b.appendChild(z);void(0);

or for sites where I haven't enabled javascript (in the NoScript addon) i use

javascript:(function(){window.location=window.location.toString().replace(/^/,"http://archive.org/wayback/available?url=");})()

followed by

javascript:(function(){a=JSON.parse(document.getElementsByTagName("pre")[0].innerHTML);window.location=a.archived_snapshots.closest.url;})()

This uses the API I mentioned above in the question. They are tested in Firefox 32.0 and probably contains multiple bugs.

How to save blocked site in Wayback Machine

Contact ArchiveTeam, they handle things like this.

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