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Restoring website from WayBack Machine

A friend had a site that went down years ago, and any hope of getting the source code is gone.

What can I do with the URL to that site from a prior year? I want to save the entire site to my disk, in hopes it could be hosted once again.

I am pretty sure it's a simple HTML site with no back-end, so I want the HTML files, the CSS files, the JavaScript file and the Images folder.

What's the easiest was to get this from the WayBack Machine?

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Flabio Gates

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curiouswebster

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If I can navigate to a website in my browser, isn't there way way to pull down all pages, images and javascript pointed to by that single URL?

I don't want to over-think this and start down a rabbit hole before I check for standard tools which I have heard exist for this.

No idea how to do this?

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lenamtl

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curiouswebster

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It's a small website. The File > Save seemed to work fine on the largest page. The images came down as well.

Any big reason to install that tool? I suspect the only linking between the pages would be on the header and footer. But dod these even need to be updated?

It seems like I can simply open each page, open the debugger, then File and Save.

Am i missing anything?

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thanks