Deleted content is almost never gone. Every page, post, and asset that has ever been publied online has usually been captured by at least one web archive &mda; the Wayback Machine, archive.ph, Bing, or a search engine cache. Restoration is usually a matter of knowing where those copies live and how to pull them back out.
RestoreWebpages documents that process. Every guide here is a working procedure: what to search, which archive to query, how to pull the content out intact, and what to do when the first archive does not have it. Where a page is already gone, we still explain the full path &mda; because in most cases there is a copy somewhere.
What you can recover
- Individual pages and posts — a single deleted article pulled back from the closest snapshot
- Entire websites — bulk-downloaded via the CDX API and republished as a working site
- Media and documents — images, PDFs, and Office files archived alongside the pages that linked them
- Hacked sites — clean content reconstructed from archives after malware or defacement
- Platform-specific losses — WordPress, Wix, Squarespace, and static sites have different recovery paths
Where to start
If you know the exact page you lost, the fastest route is our step-by-step restoration guide. If the whole site is gone, start with bulk download from the Wayback Machine. If you are dealing with a breach, work through the 10-step hacked-site recovery process first — containment before reconstruction.