A blogger recovered lost posts from the Wayback Machine
The author says they lost old blog posts while moving from WordPress to Hashnode. They later used the Wayback Machine CDX API to recover 4 posts and 5 images. They cleaned up the files, saved them in Git, and now serve the site as static HTML on Cloudflare Pages for free.
Key points
- The post is about recovering blog content lost during site migrations.
- The author used the Wayback Machine to find old saved pages.
- The CDX API helped list cached URLs without clicking through the calendar view.
- Images were also recovered with extra filtering.
- The recovered site is stored in Git and served as static HTML.
Quick term guide
- WordPress
- A popular tool that lets anyone build a website or blog without writing code
- Wayback Machine
- A service that saves copies of public web pages from the past.
- Cloudflare Pages
- A service for publishing website files online, often for free or low cost.
- Cloudflare
- A service that protects websites and manages web traffic.
- Mac mini server
- A Mac mini used as an always-on computer for files, apps, backups, or automation.
- ownership
- A share of a business or project that gives someone a claim to part of it.
- migration
- The process of moving data or tasks from one system or tool to another.
- filtering
- A way to show only the items that match what you choose.