Warrick is back in action

Warrick, the service I created several years ago to recover lost websites, has been revived. I took its web interface out of commission about a year ago when we received more jobs then we could ever process in 2009. But I've decided to wipe out the old jobs and start fresh. I'm curious to see how quickly we receive more jobs than we can handle in 2010.

Some stats. Since July 2007 when Warrick's web interface was first made public, we have recovered 4287 websites and 3,508,091 URIs. That's a lot of missing material the public wants back.

I've also updated Warrick:

• Removed Google SOAP API usage since Google no longer supports it.
• Alerted Microsoft about a bug with their cache which they have now fixed.
• Added some robustness in the face of a flaky Yahoo cache.
• Added the ability to specify an input file (-i option) which contains URLs to recover (thanks to James Young for his contribution).

Happy website reconstructing.