You can access the Wayback Machine Historic Snapshot & Archive Scraper 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.

Python

JavaScript

CLI

OpenAPI

HTTP

MCP

1import { ApifyClient } from 'apify-client';
2
3// Initialize the ApifyClient with your Apify API token
4// Replace the '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>' with your token
5const client = new ApifyClient({
6    token: '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>',
7});
8
9// Prepare Actor input
10const input = {
11    "domainsOrUrls": [
12        "apify.com",
13        "news.ycombinator.com"
14    ]
15};
16
17// Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
18const run = await client.actor("litezero/wayback-archive-scraper").call(input);
19
20// Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if any)
21console.log('Results from dataset');
22console.log(`💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/${run.defaultDatasetId}`);
23const { items } = await client.dataset(run.defaultDatasetId).listItems();
24items.forEach((item) => {
25    console.dir(item);
26});
27
28// 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/js/docs

Wayback Machine Scraper - Historic Web Snapshots & Archives API in JavaScript

The Apify API client for JavaScript is the official library that allows you to use Wayback Machine Historic Snapshot & Archive Scraper API in JavaScript or TypeScript, providing convenience functions and automatic retries on errors.

Install the apify-client

$npm install apify-client

Other API clients include:

Wayback Machine Historic Snapshot & Archive Scraper API in Python

Wayback Machine Historic Snapshot & Archive Scraper API through CLI

Wayback Machine Historic Snapshot & Archive Scraper OpenAPI definition

Wayback Machine Historic Snapshot & Archive Scraper API

Wayback Machine URL Extractor - Archived URLs

logiover/wayback-machine-url-extractor

Extract every archived URL of any domain from the Internet Archive's Wayback Machine (CDX API). Recover lost or old pages, build redirect maps and run OSINT, with date and status filters. No API key, export to CSV or JSON.

Logiover

Wayback Machine Scraper - Track Website Changes Over Time

ryanclinton/wayback-machine-search

Search the Internet Archive's Wayback Machine for historical snapshots of any website. Retrieve archived page metadata -- including timestamps, URLs, MIME types, HTTP status codes, and content hashes -- for up to 10,000 snapshots per run.

Ryan Clinton

220

Wayback Machine Scraper

glassventures/wayback-machine-scraper

Scrape Wayback Machine archive snapshots for any URL or domain. Get archived URLs, timestamps, status codes, MIME types. Export to JSON, CSV, Excel.

Glass Ventures

Wayback Machine Scraper — Website History & Snapshots

alaudinburki/wayback-machine-snapshots

Extract every Wayback Machine (archive.org) snapshot of any URL, domain or subdomain — capture date, HTTP status, MIME type, content digest, byte size and direct snapshot links. Up to 50,000 rows, many URLs per run, $0.50 per 1,000 rows. No API key.

alaudin burki

Wayback Machine Historical Content Scraper

happyfhantum/wayback-machine-historical-content-scraper

Compare archived website snapshots through the Wayback Machine and extract page-history change signals.

Kelsey Todd

4.0

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Wayback Machine Snapshots Scraper — Internet Archive History

seemuapps/wayback-machine-snapshots-scraper

List every Internet Archive snapshot of a URL, page, or whole domain. Timestamp, snapshot URL, status code, mime type, content length. No login.

Seemu Scraping

Wayback Machine Scraper — Archived Snapshots

hipersoft/wayback-machine-scraper

List every Internet Archive (Wayback Machine) snapshot of a URL or whole domain: timestamp, snapshot URL, status code, MIME type and content digest. Filter by date, status and dedupe. For SEO, OSINT and historical research. No setup.

hiper soft

Internet Archive & Wayback Machine Scraper

cloud9_ai/internet-archive-scraper

Search Internet Archive and check Wayback Machine snapshots. Access 800B+ archived pages, books, movies, audio. Search items, get metadata, or check URL archive history. No API key needed. For SEO, OSINT, legal, and research.

cloud9

Wayback Machine API & Internet Archive Scraper

rowfeed/wayback-internet-archive-scraper

Query the Wayback Machine's official JSON APIs: snapshot history (CDX) for any URL, the latest archived snapshot, and full-text search of archive.org items. No login, no scraping, no proxy.