read-deleted-pages
Recover deleted, edited or historical web content using the Wayback Machine and its CDX API, archive.today, Common Crawl and Memento/Timetravel. Use when a page is deleted, changed or 404s, checking what a site used to say, finding old team or staff pages, prior pricing, removed posts, pre-redaction wording or old contact details, enumerating every archived URL for a domain, or preserving evidence before it…
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read-deleted-pages is a SKILL.md that teaches an AI coding agent to recover deleted, edited, or historical web content using the Wayback Machine and its CDX API, archive.today, Common Crawl, and Memento/Timetravel. It covers CDX querying, replay vs. raw captures, capture verification, evidence preservation, and confidence grading, with bundled references (archive comparison, CDX cookbook, ethics) and worked examples.
Reach for it when a page is deleted, changed, or 404s and you need the archived original or a defensible record of it before it disappears.
Use it to
- Enumerate every archived URL for a domain via the CDX API
- Compare captures from two dates to surface removed content
- Preserve evidence before it disappears or is taken down
- Verify whether a claimed certification or credential once appeared on a site
- Recover prior pricing, staff pages, or pre-redaction wording
For OSINT investigators, journalists, lawyers, and due-diligence reviewers.
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