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Wayback Archive

  • Updated April 17, 2026
  • saldigioia/wayback-archive-plugin

wayback-archive is a Claude Code skill in the Databases category. Recover product databases from defunct e-commerce sites via Wayback Machine, CommonCrawl, and Shopify CDN archaeology.

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  • wayback-archive
  • Databases
  • AI-coding skill

Wayback Archive by the numbers

  • Data as of Jul 7, 2026 (Skillselion catalog sync)
/plugin marketplace add saldigioia/wayback-archive-plugin
/plugin install wayback-archive@rare-data-club

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Last updatedApril 17, 2026
Repositorysaldigioia/wayback-archive-plugin

What it does

Recover product databases from defunct e-commerce sites via Wayback Machine, CommonCrawl, and Shopify CDN archaeology.

README.md

Wayback-Archive Docs

Operational and strategic documentation for the pipeline. For stage-level reference material (extraction strategy, config schema, lessons learned), see ../skills/wayback-archive/references/.

Contents

  • IMPROVEMENT_PLAN.md — Multi-phase analysis → brainstorm → edit workflow that hardens the pipeline against reactive/file-centric behavior. Defines the five standing protocols, the ledger schema, and the definition of done.

Standing Protocols (summary)

The skill and the pipeline are bound by five invariants. Full text lives in IMPROVEMENT_PLAN.md § I and in ../skills/wayback-archive/SKILL.md:

  1. Entity-first (not file-first)
  2. Discovery surfaces are recursive, never terminal
  3. New host → immediate CDX-dump + enumeration
  4. No "done" without the five-question audit
  5. Validate (normalize → classify → reject → dedupe) before counting

If any of these feels negotiable in the moment, read the plan — there is a prior incident behind each one.

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