Howo use Google Cache as a backup engine...

Published: 9:11 AM GMT+12, Monday, 6 November 2006 under: technology
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Over on insanecats.com Catspaw shows a novel use of Google Cache as a "backup system" for her blog:

I quickly leapt into action and wrote a Python script to scrape the Google cache for as much data as possible. Of course, Google only allows you to find 1000 results per search, so I used some minor cleverness to do date-based searches and managed to pull down nearly all of the pages and comments, which was a huge relief.

It may not be foolproof, but its amazing how much cached content you could restore via Google Cache - at least, non walled-garden content that is...

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