Saving Data from a Website

[Chattahooch33]

There once was a site called Ranger95 that had most of all the rosters of the Georgia troops including service records for most of them. About a year ago the site disapeared. Using WaybackMachine you can still go there and access the data but it is too valuable to leave it at that and hope it stays available. Does anyone know if there is a way to download data on websites and make them accessible?

Here is the site:

Index

 

[huskerblitz]

There once was a site called Ranger95 that had most of all the rosters of the Georgia troops including service records for most of them. About a year ago the site disapeared. Using WaybackMachine you can still go there and access the data but it is too valuable to leave it at that and hope it stays available. Does anyone know if there is a way to download data on websites and make them accessible?

Here is the site:

Index

Not an easy solution, but I have an app on my computer called Awesome Screenshot that I use to capture information from web pages for later use. You can download the images as a jpg or PDF. Would be a daunting task for someone wanting to preserve information.

 

[DaveBrt]

There is a way, but I am not the one to do it.

I've checked about a dozen Georgia soldiers that I know well and find that the web site appear to be just a posting of the set of the book Confederate Soldiers of Georgia (or words to that effect), published in the 1950's? Have you seen any sign of additional research by the site author?

 

[Chattahooch33]

There is a way, but I am not the one to do it.

I've checked about a dozen Georgia soldiers that I know well and find that the web site appear to be just a posting of the set of the book Confederate Soldiers of Georgia (or words to that effect), published in the 1950's? Have you seen any sign of additional research by the site author?

No, I suspect that is all it is. Its just organized and easily accessible as a website.

 

[Northstep]

There once was a site called Ranger95 that had most of all the rosters of the Georgia troops including service records for most of them. About a year ago the site disapeared. Using WaybackMachine you can still go there and access the data but it is too valuable to leave it at that and hope it stays available. Does anyone know if there is a way to download data on websites and make them accessible?

Here is the site:

Index

I know the website well. Something is up with the site because I'm seeing a "account suspended" message on the main page. That is unusual and makes me think the site was hacked. I tried accessing it using https: and received a browser warning that the site was considered dangerous and the certificate has expired. Another indication the site was likely hacked. I successfully pinged the server so that is not the problem.
The domain was registered at GoDaddy but privacy is turned on so the owners name and contact info is not made public. The odd thing is that it shows the domain name does not expire until 10/1/2024. This means the website should be online.
Sadly, without access to the server (name and password) you cannot retrieve the information. It is most certainly in a php or sql database on the server. Ranger95 did a lot of typing to compile the list of names and histories into a database, even if the info came directly from a book. But, he also added personal histories that people shared with him over the years.
Thank goodness for WaybackMachine. It is doing just what it was meant to do so nothing is ever lost. The info should remain at least until the zombie apocalypse.

 

[Nathan Stuart]

Below is a convenient online link at HathiTrust to the full views of rosters for most Georgia units (Volumes 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 & 6).

Catalog Record: Roster of the Confederate soldiers of Georgia, 1861-1865

 

[Chattahooch33]

I know the website well. Something is up with the site because I'm seeing a "account suspended" message on the main page. That is unusual and makes me think the site was hacked. I tried accessing it using https: and received a browser warning that the site was considered dangerous and the certificate has expired. Another indication the site was likely hacked. I successfully pinged the server so that is not the problem.
The domain was registered at GoDaddy but privacy is turned on so the owners name and contact info is not made public. The odd thing is that it shows the domain name does not expire until 10/1/2024. This means the website should be online.
Sadly, without access to the server (name and password) you cannot retrieve the information. It is most certainly in a php or sql database on the server. Ranger95 did a lot of typing to compile the list of names and histories into a database, even if the info came directly from a book. But, he also added personal histories that people shared with him over the years.
Thank goodness for WaybackMachine. It is doing just what it was meant to do so nothing is ever lost. The info should remain at least until the zombie apocalypse.

That makes me feel better that Wayback Machine should keep it indefinitely.