Wayback Machine snapshot history

Export a website’s archived URL history.

Query the public Wayback CDX index for capture timestamps, original and replay URLs, status codes, MIME types, digests and lengths—or switch to Archive.org catalog metadata and file inventories.

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5 snapshotsverified Apify cloud run

CDX + catalogtwo data modes

No loginno browser or proxy

For website-history research and monitoring

Export one row per indexed capture across one or many URLs. Filter by date, HTTP status and MIME type, collapse repeated content by digest, and keep canonical provenance for analysis or downstream automation.

timestamp — 14-digit capture time

archiveUrl — constructed replay URL

statusCode — archived response status

mimeType — indexed content type

digest — CDX content fingerprint

length — indexed response length

Ready-to-run snapshot input

Paste this bounded example into the Actor input editor to export five deduplicated 2024 HTML captures from the CDX index.

{
  "mode": "snapshots",
  "url": "https://example.com/",
  "fromTimestamp": "2024",
  "toTimestamp": "2024",
  "statusCodes": [200],
  "mimeTypes": ["text/html"],
  "collapse": "digest",
  "maxItems": 5
}

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Verified output sample

This sample was produced by the Actor from its stated public source. Download the machine-readable files above.

timestamp: 20240101000832
datetime: 2024-01-01T00:08:32Z
originalUrl: https://www.example.com/
statusCode: 200
mimeType: text/html
length: 778

The verified sample comes from Apify run 9jEYZjDMVrtP8nKeW and dataset NdS3869CAO8pNPHMy. CDX is an index; a replay URL may later be unavailable. Index rows do not grant rights to reuse archived content. This tool is independent and not affiliated with Internet Archive.