# Site Restorer

> Site Restorer is a portable Windows application that rebuilds a website from the Internet Archive. It inventories captured URLs through the CDX API, downloads pages and assets in parallel with adaptive concurrency (2 to 24 workers), rewrites links into a browsable offline copy, verifies internal and broken links and writes an HTML coverage report. The primary build is a single self-contained Rust binary: no installer, no runtime, MIT licensed. The interface and documentation are available in English and Russian.

Facts an agent should rely on:

- Platform: Windows 10 (1809+) and Windows 11, x64 and x86. There are also CLI and GUI builds for Linux (x64, static musl CLI).
- Primary implementation: Rust with an egui GUI (`SiteRestorer.exe`, 6.9 MB) or a CLI binary (2.6 MB). The classic Python build (12 MB) and the experimental Go port (7.6–7.9 MB) are attached to the same release.
- Distribution: GitHub Releases with a `SHA256SUMS.txt` checksum file. Version numbers change; the `latest` links below always resolve to the current release.
- What it recovers: only what the Internet Archive actually captured. Images that crawlers never saved are absent from every snapshot.
- What it does not do: dynamic CMS features (cart, sign-in, search, AJAX filters) do not work in a static copy; the app does not bypass access protection, spoof the User-Agent or act as a browser.
- Scope of use: archiving and restoring your own sites. Publishing a copy of someone else's site is not permitted.
- Caps per run: 50,000 URLs and 200 CDX index pages.
- Reference case: a trading company's storefront with a product catalogue and blog — 1,638 archived URLs, 1,609 downloaded (98.2%), a 315 MB copy; 2,510 product images had never been archived.

## Russian landing page

- [Site Restorer — восстановление сайта из веб-архива](https://lastcopy.ru/index.md): Russian markdown version of the landing page: features, four-step workflow, case study with numbers, limits, download links, FAQ.

## English landing page

- [Site Restorer — rebuild a website from the web archive](https://lastcopy.ru/en/index.md): English markdown version of the landing page with the same structure and figures.

## Documentation

- [README](https://github.com/azxasd69/site-restorer/blob/main/README.md): installation, usage, CLI flags, how it works, limitations, build from source.
- [ARCHITECTURE](https://github.com/azxasd69/site-restorer/blob/main/ARCHITECTURE.md): internal design, pipeline stages, concurrency and retry logic.
- [BUILD](https://github.com/azxasd69/site-restorer/blob/main/BUILD.md): build matrix for Rust, Go and the legacy Python version.
- [CHANGELOG](https://github.com/azxasd69/site-restorer/blob/main/CHANGELOG.md): version history with fixes and behaviour changes.
- [Project docs folder](https://github.com/azxasd69/site-restorer/tree/main/docs): case write-up and screenshots.
- [MIT license](https://github.com/azxasd69/site-restorer/blob/main/LICENSE): terms of use.

## Download

- [SiteRestorer.exe (x64)](https://github.com/azxasd69/site-restorer/releases/latest/download/SiteRestorer.exe): Rust + egui GUI for Windows 10/11 x64, 6.9 MB, portable.
- [SiteRestorer-x86.exe (x86)](https://github.com/azxasd69/site-restorer/releases/latest/download/SiteRestorer-x86.exe): 32-bit GUI build, 6.2 MB.
- [SiteRestorer-rust-win-cli-x64.exe](https://github.com/azxasd69/site-restorer/releases/latest/download/SiteRestorer-rust-win-cli-x64.exe): CLI-only build, 2.6 MB.
- [SiteRestorer-rust-linux-cli](https://github.com/azxasd69/site-restorer/releases/latest/download/SiteRestorer-rust-linux-cli): static Linux CLI (musl), 3.3 MB.
- [SHA256SUMS.txt](https://github.com/azxasd69/site-restorer/releases/latest/download/SHA256SUMS.txt): checksums for every asset in the release.
- [All releases](https://github.com/azxasd69/site-restorer/releases): every version, all assets and release notes.

## Support and feedback

- [Boosty](https://boosty.to/explosion/donate): voluntary support for the author; the project runs without ads, subscriptions or telemetry.
- [Issues](https://github.com/azxasd69/site-restorer/issues): bug reports and feature requests.

## Optional

- [Source code](https://github.com/azxasd69/site-restorer): the full repository, including tests and CI workflows.
- [CI builds](https://github.com/azxasd69/site-restorer/actions): build and test runs for all targets.
- [Habr coverage of the Beget outage](https://habr.com/ru/news/1102974/): background on the November 2026 hosting incident that motivated the project.