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Wayback Machine Snapshots: Archive History, URLs & Summaries

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Internet Archive Wayback Machine history for any URL or domain via the official CDX API: every snapshot or only content changes, all archived URLs of a domain, the capture closest to a date, or a first/last-seen summary. $0.50 per 1,000 rows.

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You can access the Wayback Machine Snapshots: Archive History, URLs & Summaries programmatically from your own applications by using the Apify API. You can also choose the language preference from below. To use the Apify API, you’ll need an Apify account and your API token, found in API & Integrations in Apify Console.

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Wayback Machine Scraper & CDX API | Snapshots, URLs, History OpenAPI definition

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