Wayback Machine URL Extractor — Archived URLs & Snapshots (CDX API)

Get every URL the Internet Archive's Wayback Machine has ever captured for a domain, subdomain, folder or page, with capture dates, HTTP status, MIME type and direct snapshot links. Built on the official public Wayback CDX Server API — no login, no API key, no browser.

Use cases

• 🔁 SEO migrations & 301 redirect maps — recover old URLs that disappeared from your sitemap and still have backlinks.
• 🕵️ Find lost pages, PDFs and images on any site (mimeTypes: ["application/pdf"]).
• 📜 Website history — every content change of one page (matchType: exact, collapse: digest).
• 🧭 Recon & research — enumerate historic paths, subdomains and endpoints of a domain.
• 🤖 Training/data pipelines — rawSnapshotUrl gives the original archived bytes without the Wayback toolbar.

Input example

{ "targets": ["apify.com"], "matchType": "domain", "collapse": "urlkey", "onlyStatus200": true, "maxResultsPerTarget": 1000 }

All versions of one page since 2020:

{ "targets": ["https://www.python.org/about/"], "matchType": "exact", "collapse": "digest", "dateFrom": "2020" }

Match type	Returns
domain	the domain and all subdomains
host	only that exact host
prefix	everything under a path, e.g. example.com/blog/
exact	all captures of one URL

Output example

{
  "target": "apify.com",
  "url": "https://apify.com/.well-known/agent-skills/index.json",
  "timestamp": "20260913155047", "archivedAt": "2026-09-13T15:50:47Z",
  "statusCode": 200, "mimeType": "application/json", "digest": "MO4JIMUGYVNBCZRQD34VZCN5CUJIB6JB", "length": 4225,
  "snapshotUrl": "https://web.archive.org/web/20260913155047/https://apify.com/.well-known/agent-skills/index.json",
  "rawSnapshotUrl": "https://web.archive.org/web/20260913155047id_/https://apify.com/.well-known/agent-skills/index.json"
}

Export to JSON, CSV, Excel or via API. Targets with no captures get a free NO_CAPTURES row so you know they were checked.

Pricing

$0.50 per 1,000 archived URLs (cheaper on higher plans). Error/no-capture rows are free. Set a max charge per run and the Actor stops at your budget.

Good citizenship

The Actor sends one request at a time, uses the CDX resume-key pagination and backs off on rate limits, so it stays friendly to the Internet Archive. Large domains can take a few minutes. Consider donating to the Internet Archive if it's useful to you.

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