Wayback Machine Scraper — Snapshots, First Capture & Old URLs
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from $0.40 / 1,000 snapshot or urls
Wayback Machine Scraper — Snapshots, First Capture & Old URLs
Search the Internet Archive Wayback Machine for any URL or domain: first and last capture and domain age, the list of snapshots (one per day, month or year, or only when the page changed), and every archived URL under a domain for SEO and lost-page recovery. Official API, no login.
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Look up any website in the Internet Archive's Wayback Machine and get clean rows instead of clicking through the calendar. Three modes:
- Summary — for each URL or domain: first capture, last capture, domain age, and links to both archived pages. Optionally, which years and months it was captured.
- Snapshots — the list of captures, one per day, month or year, or only when the page content changed, with a direct link to each archived copy.
- URLs — every page ever archived under a domain or path, with its first capture. Find old pages, lost content, past URL structures and redirect targets.
Schedule it with Only new since the last run to get just the new captures or newly archived pages.
What you get
| Mode | Fields |
|---|---|
| Summary | url, archived, firstCapture, firstCaptureUrl, lastCapture, lastCaptureUrl, ageYears (+ yearsWithCaptures, monthsWithCaptures, monthsWithCapturesByYear with add years and months) |
| Snapshots | url, capturedAt, timestamp, original, statusCode, mimeType, length, digest, waybackUrl, isNewSinceLastRun |
| URLs | domain, original, firstCapture, statusCode, mimeType, waybackUrl, isNewSinceLastRun |
Use it for
- SEO and site migrations — every URL a domain ever had, to map redirects and recover lost pages
- Expired-domain and due-diligence checks — how old a site really is and when it was last alive
- Competitor history — how a pricing or landing page changed, one capture per month or only when it changed
- Research and evidence — direct links to archived copies for a list of pages
Input
Data comes from the Wayback Machine's official CDX API — no login, no API key. The archive is a non-profit service and is sometimes slow or briefly offline (on October 7, 2026 it answered some requests with "Temporarily Offline"); the Actor waits and retries, and anything it still cannot read becomes a free error row. Measured that day: summaries of 2 domains in 99 seconds, and 435 content-change snapshots of one domain since 2024 in 45 seconds. Add years and months reads every capture and adds up to a minute for big sites.
Pricing
$0.50 per 1,000 snapshots or URLs, $2 per 1,000 summaries (each summary needs two or three archive lookups), plus $0.01 per run. Error rows are free. The $0.01 run-start fee is the one charge every run pays, even one that returns nothing.
For AI agents
{"urls": ["example.com"]} returns when the site was first and last archived. Rows have type: summary, snapshot, url or error.
