Wayback Machine Scraper: Snapshots, URL History & Domain Age

Pull the capture history of any web page or whole website from the Internet Archive's Wayback Machine, as clean rows you can export to CSV, Excel or JSON.

Uses the Internet Archive's official public CDX and availability APIs. No login, no browser.

Use it for

• SEO and content recovery: list every URL a site ever had (match domain + collapse unique-urls) and find deleted pages, old blog posts and lost backlink targets.
• Domain due diligence: summary mode gives the first and last capture date, the years with captures and archive age, for expired-domain buying or vendor checks.
• Change tracking: collapse content-changes shows only captures where the page content changed.
• Competitor history: see how a pricing or landing page looked over time (open archiveUrl).

Input

Field	Example	Notes
urls	["example.com", "example.com/pricing"]	URLs, paths or domains
mode	snapshots or summary	summary = 1 row per input
matchType	exact, prefix, host, domain	domain includes subdomains
collapse	unique-urls, one-per-month, content-changes...	removes duplicates
from / to	2015, 202001, 20231231	optional date range
onlyStatus200	true	skip redirects/errors
mimeTypeContains	pdf	e.g. find archived PDFs
maxSnapshotsPerUrl	1000	0 = no limit

Output

Snapshot mode:

{
  "inputUrl": "example.com",
  "url": "http://www.example.com:80/",
  "timestamp": "20020120142510",
  "capturedAt": "2002-01-20T14:25:10+00:00",
  "archiveUrl": "https://web.archive.org/web/20020120142510/http://www.example.com:80/",
  "rawArchiveUrl": "https://web.archive.org/web/20020120142510id_/http://www.example.com:80/",
  "statusCode": 200,
  "mimeType": "text/html",
  "contentDigest": "...",
  "lengthBytes": 1234
}

Summary mode:

{
  "inputUrl": "example.com",
  "archived": true,
  "firstSnapshotAt": "2002-01-20T14:25:10+00:00",
  "lastSnapshotAt": "2026-10-01T00:00:00+00:00",
  "yearsWithSnapshots": ["2002", "2003", "..."],
  "yearsCount": 25,
  "archiveAgeYears": 24.7
}

rawArchiveUrl returns the original archived file without the Wayback toolbar.

Pricing

You pay per row returned. Use maxSnapshotsPerUrl and collapse to keep runs small.

Notes

• The Internet Archive is sometimes slow or rate-limits; the actor waits and retries automatically.
• Very large domains have millions of captures: start with collapse unique-urls or a date range.
• Pages excluded from the archive by their owners are not returned.

Questions or a missing field?

Open an issue on the Issues tab; we usually answer within a day.

FAQ

How do I find old or deleted pages of a website?

Enter the domain with a domain-wide match. You get every archived URL with its capture dates and Wayback Machine links, including pages that no longer exist.

How do I check how old a domain is?

The first-seen date in the archive shows when the site was first captured, a good proxy for domain age and history.

Is there a Wayback Machine API?

archive.org offers the CDX API, which this Actor uses. You get the results as clean JSON or CSV without writing code, for many URLs at once.

Can I only get working snapshots?

Yes. Turn on onlyStatus200 to skip redirects and error captures.