Wayback Machine APIs

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Akash Mahanty edited this page Jan 2, 2022 · 8 revisions

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.

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

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