NAME

WWW::WebArchive - Retrieve old versions of public web pages from various web archives (i.e. www.archive.org, Internet Archive's Wayback Machine, or Google's page cache)

SYNOPSIS

            

              
              
NOTE: You probably want to use the "webarchive" command line utility rather than
this API.  If you really want to use the API, you should look at how "webarchive"
uses it as an example.
#!/usr/bin/perl
use WWW::WebArchive;
my $webarchive = WWW::WebArchive->new();
$webarchive->restore( { url => "http://www.website.com" } );
            
          

DESCRIPTION

WWW-WebArchive is a set of modules to retrieve old versions of public web pages from various web archives.

            

              
              
* http://www.archive.org - Internet Archive's Wayback Machine
* http://www.google.com  - Google's page cache
            
          

This is useful if

            

              
              
1. Your web server crashed and you didn't have complete backups
2. A site (such as a valuable reference source) changed or went away
   and you want to restore an old version of the site to your local
   disk
            
          

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

            

              
              
* Author:  Stephen Adkins <spadkins@gmail.com>
* License: This is free software. It is licensed under the same terms as Perl itself.
            
          

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