Government Data-Rescue Retriever

US federal pages and datasets have been pulled offline, and people need the archived copies. Give this actor the original URLs and it finds their captures in the Internet Archive, returning a snapshot you can open now plus its capture date, status, and type. Closest-capture mode gives you the single best snapshot; history mode lists every capture.

What this collects and how (clear-zone stance)

• What: pointers to Internet Archive captures of US government pages, the archived URL and its metadata. The underlying material is US-government work, public domain.
• Source: the Internet Archive's own official public APIs (Wayback Availability and CDX). No logins, no paywalls, no access bypass, and no scraping of arbitrary third-party mirrors, so the only reuse terms in play are the Archive's own, which permit programmatic access.
• Scope: built for US government data. Each row is stamped jurisdiction=US.
• Billing: charged only per archived snapshot actually found; misses are free.
• Provenance: every row carries the exact Internet Archive API query as sourceUrl, so any result is verifiable.

This actor returns archived locations and metadata; it does not re-host content or extract individual-level records. Point it at public pages and datasets, not at anything containing personal records.

Input

• URLs to recover, Mode (closest / history), Target date (closest), From/To date and Only successful (200) and Max captures per URL (history), Max delivered snapshots.

Output

originalUrl, archivedUrl, timestamp, waybackTimestamp, statusCode, mimeType, digest, plus provenance (sourceUrl, retrievedAt, confidence, jurisdiction, dataSource).

Sample output

A real run recovering archived copies of federal pages (Internet Archive):

original URL	archived snapshot	snapshot time	HTTP
https://www.cdc.gov	http://web.archive.org/web/2026061423…	2026-06-14	200
https://www.epa.gov	http://web.archive.org/web/2026061323…	2026-06-13	200

Every row carries a sourceUrl (the Wayback availability query), for example https://archive.org/wayback/available?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.cdc.gov.

See also

More clean, pay-only-for-results data tools from Pono Data:

• Regulatory Change Monitor - federal rulemaking from the Federal Register
• FDA Food Recall & Enforcement Alerts - US food recalls and enforcement reports
• FCC Filings & Proceedings Lookup - public FCC filings and proceedings

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