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Internet Archive API: List archived snapshots of a page

Lists Wayback Machine captures of a web page, oldest first, with HTTP status and whether the content changed since the previous capture.

web.archive.org (opens in a new tab)Version 1ReadNo sign-inVerified Nov 2, 2026

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Inputs

Values from the run on Oct 23, 2026, shown under Output.

Page, requiredpage

Website address to look up, for example openai.com/pricing.

example.com

To Date optionalto_date

Last capture date to include, for example 2023-12-31. Omit for all later dates.

2020-01-01

From Date optionalfrom_date

First capture date to include, for example 2023-02-01. Omit for all earlier dates.

2020-01-01

Max Results optionalmax_results

Maximum captures returned, for example 50. The total still counts all matching captures.

3

Whole number from 1 to 1000. Default 50.

Changes Only optionalchanges_only

Include only the first capture and later captures with changed content, for example true.

false

True or false. Default true.

Output

From a run on Oct 23, 2026.
{  "snapshots": [    {      "http_status": null,      "snapshot_link": "https://web.archive.org/web/20200101002334/https://example.com",      "content_digest": "JI6OR3QR4CI526JD6TMMNZNV4QPMPQCH",      "content_changed": false,      "http_status_code": null,      "snapshot_datetime": "2020-01-01T00:23:34Z"    },    {      "http_status": null,      "snapshot_link": "https://web.archive.org/web/20200101002938/https://example.com",      "content_digest": "JI6OR3QR4CI526JD6TMMNZNV4QPMPQCH",      "content_changed": false,      "http_status_code": null,      "snapshot_datetime": "2020-01-01T00:29:38Z"    },    {      "http_status": null,      "snapshot_link": "https://web.archive.org/web/20200101012043/https://example.com/",      "content_digest": "JI6OR3QR4CI526JD6TMMNZNV4QPMPQCH",      "content_changed": false,      "http_status_code": null,      "snapshot_datetime": "2020-01-01T01:20:43Z"    }  ],  "total_snapshots": 249}
Price
1 credit per completed run (1¢ with pay as you go); failed runs are free.
Method
web.archive.org/list_snapshots
Returns
total_snapshots, snapshots with datetime, link, HTTP status, content_changed, digest

Use it from your agent

Give your agent this line. It reads SKILL.md, gets a Fous API key and connects the Fous MCP server. Its run then takes the method web.archive.org/list_snapshots with the inputs above.

Ask your agent

  • Show me every archived version of example-news.com/front-page from 2019 to 2021, oldest first, with status codes
  • Did the pricing page at saas-tool.io/plans change between captures in 2022? List only the captures where content differed
  • List up to 20 Wayback Machine snapshots of myblog.org/about since March 2015 including HTTP status and digest values
  • I need the full capture history of the company's careers page at startup-corp.net through 2024-06-30, including all unchanged captures
  • Give me the archived snapshots of docs.python-tips.dev/install from 2017-01-01 to 2018-12-31 and tell me which ones had content changes
  • Finds the closest Wayback Machine capture of a web page to a past date and returns its title and readable text.

    web.archive.org/get_archived_page
  • Finds BBC News articles matching search words, newest first or by relevance, with publication time, authors, section and summary, optionally limited to a date range. Date filters and newest order apply to the first 180 search matches; older or less relevant matches may be missed.

    bbc.com/search_news
  • Searches Fox News articles by keyword, with date filtering, ordering and pagination, over the first 100 matches.

    foxnews.com/search_news
  • Searches historic U.S. newspaper pages (Chronicling America) by text, with optional state and issue-year filters. Returns relevance-ranked page records with snippets and image links; newspaper OCR may contain transcription errors.

    loc.gov/search_historic_newspapers
  • Searches public National Archives Catalog records by keywords, year range, material type and online availability, in catalog relevance order.

    catalog.archives.gov/search_records
  • Searches CNBC-published articles by keyword, with optional publication date range, sort order and pagination. Excludes videos, wire stories and press releases.

    cnbc.com/search_news
  • Searches The Verge articles by keyword, with optional date filters, sorting and pagination. Only the first 100 matches from The Verge search are used.

    theverge.com/search_news
  • Returns human-reader view counts for a Wikipedia article by day or month, with totals, daily averages and the peak period.

    wikipedia.org/get_page_views