Wayback Machine

## Wayback Machine API Query the Internet Archive's Wayback Machine (`web.archive.org`) programmatically: retrieve the archived copy of any URL at a given moment, list every capture of a day, count captures per day of a month or year, and search the hosts the archive knows. ### Endpoints - **`GET /v1/content`** — the archived copy of a URL closest to a given moment, with the capture's own status and timestamp. Pages, assets and binary files are all returned. - **`GET /v1/captures`** — every capture of a URL on one day, with its time, the status the page answered and the collections it belongs to. - **`GET /v1/calendar`** — the number of captures of a URL on each day of a year or a month. - **`GET /v1/sparkline`** — monthly capture counts for every year a URL was archived, with its first and last capture. - **`GET /v1/search`** — hosts the archive has indexed that match a query. ### Notes - Pass `url` with or without a scheme (`example.com` or `https://example.com/page`). - Dates are UTC: `YYYY-MM-DD` or `YYYY-MM-DD HH:MM:SS` for content, `YYYY` or `YYYY-MM` for the calendar. - A lookup the Wayback Machine could not answer returns a `503` and is not charged; an archived page's own status (including a `404` for a URL never captured) is a normal, charged answer. Data comes from the Internet Archive. Please use the archive's data responsibly and in line with the Internet Archive's terms.