Wayback Machine APIs

There are 3 public APIs (Save, Availability, and CDX) of the Wayback Machine, this page contains basic information about these 3 APIs.

Save API

• Endpoint: https://web.archive.org/save/
• Purpose: Saving/Creating new archives of web pages.
• Return Type: The API can be used by parsing the response headers.

Availability API

• Endpoint: https://archive.org/wayback/available
• Purpose: Checking for archives and looking up for archives close to a specific date and time.
• Read more @ https://archive.org/help/wayback_api.php
• Return Type: JSON

CDX API

• Endpoint: https://web.archive.org/cdx/search/cdx
• Complex querying, filtering, and analysis of Wayback capture data.
• Read more @ https://github.com/internetarchive/wayback/tree/master/wayback-cdx-server
• Return Type: text/plain