Wayback Machine snapshot lookup API

Find the closest archived snapshot of a URL in the Internet Archive's Wayback Machine, optionally near a given date. Returns the archived snapshot URL and capture time. Answers 'archived version of this page', 'what did this site look like in 2015', 'when was this page first/last captured', 'is this URL archived'.

Price$0.01per request

MethodPOST

Route/v1/web/wayback

StatusLive

MIME typeapplication/json

Rate limit60/minute

Cache3600s public

webwaybackarchiveinternet-archivesnapshothistorycache

API URLhttps://x402.hexl.dev/v1/web/wayback

Integration docs

Example request

{
  "url": "https://twitter.com",
  "timestamp": "20150101"
}

Example response

{
  "url": "https://twitter.com",
  "available": true,
  "snapshot": {
    "url": "http://web.archive.org/web/20150101005634/https://twitter.com/",
    "capturedAt": "2015-01-01T00:56:34Z",
    "timestamp": "20150101005634",
    "status": "200"
  }
}

Input schema

{
  "type": "object",
  "required": [
    "url"
  ],
  "properties": {
    "url": {
      "type": "string",
      "examples": [
        "https://twitter.com"
      ]
    },
    "timestamp": {
      "type": "string",
      "examples": [
        "20150101"
      ]
    }
  }
}

Output schema

{
  "type": "object",
  "additionalProperties": true
}