Read a website's homepage year by year from the archive

Created by

Jay Novello

Actor

Wayback Machine Scraper: Snapshots, Page Text & Domain History

Fetches one archived capture per year of each URL you give (from the start year you set) and returns the page as clean text and Markdown with title, meta description, H1s, language and word count. Use it to see how a competitor's positioning changed, recover lost content or feed old pages to an LLM. About 1.5 seconds and $0.0015 per archived page. No login.

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Wayback Machine Scraper: Snapshots, Page Text & Domain Historyvarnmill/wayback-machine-scraper

Url

Requested date

Captured at

Status code

+7 fields

Input

URLs or domains:apify.com

Dates (pages mode):every-year

From date:2019

Content formats:text+1

Output fields

Url

Requested date

Captured at

Status code

Title

Meta description

Word count

Parked signal

Archive url

Text

Error

How it works

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