Dead / Broken Link & URL Recovery

Broken URL recovery and dead link recovery work through a dual-diagnostic pipeline. First, our edge server sends an active HTTP probe to test whether the target URL is live or dead. Simultaneously, our CDX engine queries the Internet Wayback Machine (waybackmachine) to retrieve all preserved historical captures, status codes, and timestamps so you can restore and view lost content.

Yes! Broken Link Recovery acts as a fast, clean Wayback Machine alternate for link recovery and URL recovery. While browsing the Internet Wayback Machine directly can often be slow with broken styles and overlay banners, our tool probes live HTTP status, queries the Wayback CDX index instantly, and extracts clean, distraction-free article text.

Yes! If the original website has been discontinued, expired, or removed from the web, you can almost always perform URL recovery provided the Internet Wayback Machine crawled and archived that URL before it went offline. Our tool displays the most recent working snapshots with direct one-click access.

The CDX (Capture Index) Engine is the public indexing interface of the Internet Archive. Instead of manually clicking through complex calendar heatmaps, our tool directly queries the CDX index to instantly discover available snapshots, timestamps, and HTTP response codes within seconds.

Old archived snapshots often fail to load external stylesheets, images, fonts, or scripts that were hosted on long-dead CDNs, causing archived pages to look scrambled or broken. Our built-in Reader Mode strips out broken stylesheets and trackers, extracting clean, readable article text with custom typography presets.

Yes, 100% free. No account, sign-up, or subscription is required. You can perform as many dead link recovery and broken URL recovery operations as you need.