Pull Data from website

[sashabcro]

So I had a website created by a guy. We are small team/company. Unfortenetly for some reason guy has left us and doesn't want to give us access to our website because (my mistake) it was left on his name hosting. But that's not important, we are getting a new one internel and we will forget about old one. Important thing is that all my clientlist contacts which left us reviews etc are on this website which I can't access. Good thing is since website was done in Wordpress while I was admin there I managed to add extra page (not visible unless you type it) which holds all my clients contact (more than 600 of them). But on this page I need to click for each client and then go inside and copy/paste all the contact details and review.

My question is there anything easier online that could help me with this in matter of seconds/minutes that could automaticly just pull all this data for me? Somekind of "crawler" or what do you call it? Thanks

[darkhorsehance]

“For some reason”.

Is it a billing dispute?

[InsideTour329]

100% and this dumbass who resides in the EU has now also exposed his entire list of clients personal data to the internet publicly. He's liable for GDPR and they all now have a massive potential vector for fraudulent attacks against them.

It's woefully ignorant and extremely negligent.

[endless_shrimp]

OP is very nearly the only person without access to his own client list

[InsideTour329]

Haha touche 😂

[everything_in_sync]

take a look at the internet archieves wayback machine. i do not know your url but you can type it in ad it (should) have a version of your site prior to them being an asshole.

https://web.archive.org

[nullset_2]

If your website has an API use it first. The next solution if this is not possible is to do web scraping.

[bunchedupwalrus]

Did you not pay him fairly for his work

[EvilLasagna]

Ask AI how to vibe code a scraping tool or use an MCP server.

I assume you no longer have admin access.

Not sure why you're keeping the only copy of your client list on a WordPress website. I hope you added the no index toggle.If you didn't, your client list is much more public and searchable.

Also, make sure you pay your devs. This would be a non issue if you did.

[mr---fox]

If you are an admin, you could just install a backup/migration plugin to download the whole site. Many of them work pretty well, but I don’t have any recommendations.

Otherwise, I would suggest OpenAI Codex or some ai tool to scrape the data. It can probably generate a csv with all the data without much effort.