recover deleted posts or web pages on blog or website

did you want to retrieve or undelete the webpage you accidentally deleted or want to read the content of the webpage that no longer exists ? many times you would have come across a situation where you need some information very badly but the webpage you are trying to open is throwing 404 error that is webpage is removed or moved to different location or temporarily unavailable, during these situation you can still get back your deleted posts or information you are trying to access by reading the search engine cache all the major search engine keeps the cache of the webpage in one of its server you can just view the cache to get back your deleted page or information you wanted.

recently while editing one of the old post i accidentally deleted it as there is now way in blogger to get back once you delete the post luckily i was able to retrieve the content of the post from the google cache below are some of the ways to retrieve it.

Retrieving via search engine cache:
all the major search engines such as Google, Live and yahoo will cache most of the pages of your website and google is so fast it can can cache your pages within few minutes or few hours, to retrieve the cache of the page just type the query or keyword such that you can see it the search result or just query for google cache using site:yourwebsite.com in the google search box and click on the "cached" link as shown in below pic.

with the above method there is few cons, you can recover deleted page if it is not yet published or only few hours old and other thing is google automatically dump the cache after few months if the finds page is no more available or removed


Way Back Machine:
If you are not able to find the webpage in any of the search engine cache then you can try to search the webpage in the internet archive portal called wayback machine which is said to hold the snap shot of several billion webpages though the wayback machine archive available only for webpages more than year old and anything less than that you cannot find there.

http://web.archive.org/web/




Warrick Web tool:
Warrick is a webtool created by frank mccown at Old Dominion University that helps you reconstruct any lost website or singlepage just type the URL of the website warrick will send you the mail once the recovery process is completed it may take few days to weeks depending on the size of the website as the internet archieve repository will be varying every now and then if first attempt fails to retrieve your website you can try again after 6 or 12 months.

http://warrick.cs.odu.edu/new.html

Firefox Cache and Rss feeds:
there is a chance of recovering your web page from the firefox cache though this method is really whacky you can still try this method if all else fails provided you do not clear your firefox cache manually often here is the detailed instructions on how to do it.

and if you are using feedburner in your site then chances are you can get back your post by browsing the older feeds and recover individual posts though these are the possible ways i think would help you in getting back your blog post, if you know any other tools, methods or hacks to get back the webpage share with us... and best thing to get out of all the above hassle and get back your lost post in swift is by backing up your blog every now and then so that you will be always on safer side from accidentally deletion, hackers etc.