# Wayback Machine Snapshot & Page Change Tracker (`webdatatools/wayback-page-diff`) Actor

Wayback Machine Snapshot & Page Change Tracker lists every Internet Archive capture of a URL and diffs the visible text of the oldest vs. newest snapshot in range — one scored change row per URL, or a full snapshot list.

- **URL**: https://apify.com/webdatatools/wayback-page-diff.md
- **Developed by:** [Murat Uzun](https://apify.com/webdatatools) (community)
- **Categories:** SEO tools, Developer tools, Automation
- **Stats:** 3 total users, 2 monthly users, 100.0% runs succeeded, 0 bookmarks
- **User rating**: No ratings yet

## Pricing

from $1.80 / 1,000 results

This Actor is paid per event. You are not charged for the Apify platform usage, but only a fixed price for specific events.
Since this Actor supports Apify Store discounts, the price gets lower the higher subscription plan you have.

Learn more: https://docs.apify.com/actors/running/actors-in-store.md#pay-per-event

## What's an Apify Actor?

An Actor is a serverless cloud program that runs on the Apify platform. It has two run modes.
In Batch mode, an Actor accepts a well-defined JSON input, performs an action which can take anything from a few seconds to a few hours,
and optionally produces a well-defined JSON output, datasets with results, or files in key-value store.
In Standby mode, an Actor provides a web server which can be used as a website, API, or an MCP server.

Apify vocabulary and the platform model are defined once, in the agent quickstart at https://apify.com/agents.md.

## How to integrate an Actor?

If asked about integration, you help developers integrate Actors into their projects.
You adapt to their stack and deliver integrations that are safe, well-documented, and production-ready.

Do not guess an integration path. Every one of them is in the agent quickstart at https://apify.com/agents.md: the Apify MCP server, Agent Skills with the Apify CLI, the JavaScript and Python clients, the REST API, and the account-free path for an agent with no human to sign in. It also carries the rule on stating cost before the first paid run.

For examples already wired to this Actor's own input schema, see the [API](#api) section below.

Each client library has reference documentation the quickstart does not restate: [JavaScript/TypeScript](https://docs.apify.com/api/client/js/docs.md) (`npm install apify-client`) and [Python](https://docs.apify.com/api/client/python/docs.md) (`pip install apify-client`).

# README

### What is Wayback Machine Snapshot & Page Change Tracker?

Wayback Machine Snapshot & Page Change Tracker is an Apify Actor that queries the [Internet Archive's Wayback Machine](https://web.archive.org) for every capture of a URL and turns that history into structured data. In **diff mode** (default) it fetches the oldest and newest archived snapshot in your date range and returns **one row per URL** describing exactly what changed: title, word count, a line-based text diff with sample added/removed lines, and link churn. In **snapshots mode** it simply lists every capture, newest first, so you can pick specific dates yourself. No API key, no proxy, no headless browser — just the Wayback Machine's own CDX index and its `id_` raw-snapshot endpoint.

### Why use Wayback Machine Snapshot & Page Change Tracker?

- **Pricing and terms history** — prove what a vendor's pricing page or ToS said on a given date, for legal, compliance or renewal-negotiation purposes.
- **SEO history** — see what a page's title, headings and copy looked like before a ranking change or a competitor's redesign.
- **Competitor and brand monitoring** — track when a competitor rewrote their homepage or landing page, without visiting the site yourself.
- **Content audits** — spot-check how much a page has actually changed since it was last reviewed, with a percentage score instead of a manual read-through.

### How to use Wayback Machine Snapshot & Page Change Tracker

1. Paste the page URLs you want history for into **URLs**, e.g. `https://apify.com/pricing`.
2. Leave **Mode** on `diff` to compare the oldest and newest capture, or switch to `snapshots` to list every capture instead.
3. Optionally set **From date** / **To date** (e.g. `2023-01-01`) to restrict the range considered.
4. Click **Start**, then export the results as JSON, CSV, Excel or HTML from the Output tab.

### Example input

```json
{
    "urls": ["https://apify.com/pricing", "https://example.com"],
    "mode": "diff",
    "maxConcurrency": 3
}
```

### Example output

Diff mode (one row per URL):

```json
{
    "url": "https://apify.com/pricing",
    "snapshotCount": 165,
    "firstSnapshotAt": "2017-10-27T07:20:08.000Z",
    "lastSnapshotAt": "2026-09-07T22:14:50.000Z",
    "oldSnapshotUrl": "https://web.archive.org/web/20171027072008/https://www.apify.com/pricing",
    "newSnapshotUrl": "https://web.archive.org/web/20260907221450/https://apify.com/pricing",
    "oldTitle": "Pricing",
    "newTitle": "Apify pricing - flexible plan + pay as you go · Apify",
    "titleChanged": true,
    "oldWordCount": 570,
    "newWordCount": 2084,
    "changedPercent": 95.3,
    "addedLines": ["Apify pricing - flexible plan + pay as you go · Apify", "Skip to content", "…"],
    "removedLines": ["Pricing", "Flexible pricing. Free for developers,", "…"],
    "addedLinkCount": 187,
    "removedLinkCount": 9,
    "error": null,
    "scrapedAt": "2026-09-12T17:30:00.000Z"
}
```

Snapshots mode (one row per capture):

```json
{
    "url": "https://example.com/",
    "timestamp": "20260912162353",
    "snapshotAt": "2026-09-12T16:23:53.000Z",
    "snapshotUrl": "https://web.archive.org/web/20260912162353/https://example.com/",
    "digest": "PKUMGV5XIIUJG5CKD4HZMCRWKUMVP5S6",
    "lengthBytes": 1048,
    "error": null,
    "scrapedAt": "2026-09-12T17:30:00.000Z"
}
```

You can download the dataset in various formats such as JSON, HTML, CSV, or Excel.

### Data table

| Field                                                         | Type            | Description                                                                          |
| -------------------------------------------------------------- | --------------- | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
| `url`                                                          | string          | The input URL checked                                                                 |
| `snapshotCount`, `firstSnapshotAt`, `lastSnapshotAt`            | number, date    | Diff mode: how many captures exist in range and when the first/last were made         |
| `oldSnapshotUrl`, `newSnapshotUrl`                              | link            | Wayback pages for the oldest and newest capture compared                              |
| `oldTitle`, `newTitle`, `titleChanged`                          | string, boolean | `<title>` of each capture and whether it differs                                      |
| `oldWordCount`, `newWordCount`                                  | number          | Visible-text word counts                                                              |
| `changedPercent`                                                | number          | 0-100 line-based change score between the two captures                                |
| `addedLines`, `removedLines`                                    | array           | Up to 50 sample lines added / removed                                                 |
| `addedLinkCount`, `removedLinkCount`                            | number          | Links present only in the new / only in the old capture                               |
| `timestamp`, `snapshotAt`, `snapshotUrl`, `digest`, `lengthBytes` | -              | Snapshots mode: one capture's Wayback timestamp, ISO date, URL, content hash and size |
| `error`, `scrapedAt`                                            | string, date    | Per-URL failure reason (never throws the whole run) and when the row was produced     |

### Input parameters

| Parameter        | Type    | Default                        | Description                                                        |
| ----------------- | ------- | ------------------------------- | -------------------------------------------------------------------- |
| `urls`            | array   | `["https://apify.com/pricing"]` | Pages to look up, one result group per URL                          |
| `mode`            | string  | `diff`                          | `diff` compares oldest vs. newest capture; `snapshots` lists them all |
| `from`            | string  | *(none)*                        | Only captures on/after this date, e.g. `2023-01-01`                 |
| `to`              | string  | *(none)*                        | Only captures on/before this date, e.g. `2024-06-30`                |
| `maxSnapshots`    | integer | `50`                            | Snapshots mode: max captures returned per URL (1-1000)              |
| `maxConcurrency`  | integer | `3`                             | URLs processed in parallel (the run also self-throttles to ~1 req/s) |

### Pricing

Wayback Machine Snapshot & Page Change Tracker uses pay-per-event pricing: **$0.003 per result row**, i.e. $3 per 1,000 rows, plus a negligible actor-start fee. A diff-mode URL costs one row (two HTML fetches under the hood); snapshots mode charges one row per capture returned, capped by **Max snapshots per URL**. Set **Maximum cost per run** and the Actor trims the URL list to what the budget covers.

### Wayback Machine Snapshot & Page Change Tracker vs. manually browsing web.archive.org

Clicking through web.archive.org's calendar UI one date at a time does not scale past a handful of pages, and comparing two captures by eye misses small copy changes. This Actor queries the same public CDX index Wayback's own UI uses, but returns a flat, scored dataset for as many URLs as you give it — with a diff percentage, sample changed lines and link churn ready for a spreadsheet, an alert, or an LLM prompt.

### Using Wayback Machine Snapshot & Page Change Tracker with AI agents and MCP

This Actor is pay-per-event with limited permissions — the two requirements for an Actor to be callable through the Apify MCP server at `mcp.apify.com`. An agent passes `urls` and gets back a structured before/after diff it can summarize or act on, without ever touching a browser or writing scraping code. The same run works from n8n, Make, Zapier and LangChain through Apify's integrations.

### FAQ

**Why did I get `error: "Only one snapshot in range"`?** The Wayback Machine has archived that URL only once inside your `from`/`to` window, so there is nothing to compare it against — widen the date range or drop it.

**Why did I get a 429 or 503 error?** The Wayback Machine rate-limits aggressively under load. This Actor already self-throttles to about one request per second and retries twice; lowering **Max concurrency** to 1-2 or simply re-running later usually clears it.

**Does this see JavaScript-rendered content?** No — it diffs the raw HTML bytes the Wayback Machine stored (via the `id_` identity endpoint, no toolbar injection), the same as what the crawler that made the capture saved. Content injected client-side after page load was never archived and cannot be recovered.

**Is this legal to run?** Yes. The Internet Archive publishes these captures as a public historical record through an open API; no login-gated or paywalled content is accessed.

**What are the limitations?** Only pages the Wayback Machine actually captured are available — obscure or `robots.txt`-blocked URLs may have few or no captures. `changedPercent` is a plain line-based text diff, not a semantic one, so a full re-layout with identical copy can still score high.

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### Support and feedback

Found a page the Wayback Machine should have captured but this Actor missed, or a diff that looks wrong? Open an issue on the **Issues** tab.

# Actor input Schema

## `urls` (type: `array`):

Enter the page URLs to look up in the Wayback Machine, e.g. https://apify.com/pricing. Bare domains are accepted too. One row (diff mode) or up to Max snapshots per URL rows (snapshots mode) comes back per URL.

## `mode` (type: `string`):

"Diff" compares the oldest and newest archived snapshot in range and returns what changed. "Snapshots" lists every capture Wayback has for the URL, newest first, with no comparison.

## `from` (type: `string`):

Only consider captures on or after this date, e.g. 2023-01-01 or 20230101. Leave empty for no lower bound.

## `to` (type: `string`):

Only consider captures on or before this date, e.g. 2024-06-30 or 20240630. Leave empty for no upper bound.

## `maxSnapshots` (type: `integer`):

Snapshots mode only: the most captures returned per URL (newest first). Ignored in diff mode, which always emits exactly one row per URL.

## `maxConcurrency` (type: `integer`):

How many URLs to process in parallel. The Wayback Machine rate-limits hard, so this Actor also self-throttles to 1 request per second per run regardless of this setting — keep it low (2-5) to avoid 429s.

## `inputDatasetId` (type: `string`):

Take the items from another Actor run's dataset, e.g. "aBcD1234". Combined with the list above.

## `inputField` (type: `string`):

Column holding the value, e.g. "url" (the default). Array columns are flattened.

## Actor input object example

```json
{
  "urls": [
    "https://apify.com/pricing",
    "https://example.com"
  ],
  "mode": "diff",
  "maxSnapshots": 50,
  "maxConcurrency": 3
}
```

# Actor output Schema

## `pages` (type: `string`):

All processed URLs or snapshots — download as JSON, CSV, Excel or HTML.

# API

You can run this Actor programmatically using our API. Below are code examples in JavaScript, Python, and CLI, as well as the OpenAPI specification and MCP server setup.

## JavaScript example

```javascript
import { ApifyClient } from 'apify-client';

// Initialize the ApifyClient with your Apify API token
// Replace the '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>' with your token
const client = new ApifyClient({
    token: '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>',
});

// Prepare Actor input
const input = {
    "urls": [
        "https://apify.com/pricing",
        "https://example.com"
    ]
};

// Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
const run = await client.actor("webdatatools/wayback-page-diff").call(input);

// Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if any)
console.log('Results from dataset');
console.log(`💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/${run.defaultDatasetId}`);
const { items } = await client.dataset(run.defaultDatasetId).listItems();
items.forEach((item) => {
    console.dir(item);
});

// 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/js/docs

```

## Python example

```python
from apify_client import ApifyClient

# Initialize the ApifyClient with your Apify API token
# Replace '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>' with your token.
client = ApifyClient("<YOUR_API_TOKEN>")

# Prepare the Actor input
run_input = { "urls": [
        "https://apify.com/pricing",
        "https://example.com",
    ] }

# Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
run = client.actor("webdatatools/wayback-page-diff").call(run_input=run_input)

# Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if there are any)
print(f"💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/{run.default_dataset_id}")
for item in client.dataset(run.default_dataset_id).iterate_items():
    print(item)

# 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/python/docs/quick-start

```

## CLI example

```bash
echo '{
  "urls": [
    "https://apify.com/pricing",
    "https://example.com"
  ]
}' |
apify call webdatatools/wayback-page-diff --silent --output-dataset

```

## MCP server setup

```json
{
    "mcpServers": {
        "apify": {
            "type": "http",
            "url": "https://mcp.apify.com/?tools=fetch-actor-details,webdatatools/wayback-page-diff"
        }
    }
}
```

The hosted server signs you in with OAuth on first connect, so no API token belongs in this config. Clients without OAuth support can send an `Authorization: Bearer <APIFY_API_TOKEN>` header instead, using a token from API & Integrations in Apify Console (https://console.apify.com/settings/integrations).

## OpenAPI specification

Download the OpenAPI definition: https://api.apify.com/v2/actors/fL6PnxZb9MbkBMTPx/builds/6CVPvS2LszThPxF11/openapi.json