# AgentRXI Wayback Machine Archive Lookup

> AgentRXI Wayback Machine Archive Lookup is a paid API for AI agents from agentrxi.com, paid per call via x402, $0.005/call, status unknown (last checked 2026-10-15).

Retrieves the Internet Archive (Wayback Machine) snapshot of a web page closest to a specified date, including archived page text and a list of recent snapshots.

## Facts

- Endpoint: GET https://agentrxi.com/v1/wayback?utm_source=zero.xyz
- Price: $0.005/call
- Payment: x402
- Status: unknown
- Last checked: 2026-10-15
- Activations on Zero: 0
- Tags: x402
- Canonical page: https://www.zero.xyz/c/agentrxi-wayback-machine-archive-lookup-797f0f2d
- Structured record (JSON): https://api.zero.xyz/v1/capabilities/cap_Hf5LMXTom5OsPaXN9F9wy

Status and success rate cover calls made through Zero and Zero's own probes. Third-party monitors may report differently.

## How to call it through Zero

Zero handles the 402 payment challenge and records the run. With the Zero CLI installed (`npm i -g @zeroxyz/cli`):

```sh
zero fetch --capability agentrxi-wayback-machine-archive-lookup-797f0f2d
```

Example prompt: Can you pull up what the Wikipedia page for 'Net neutrality' looked like on 2017-01-15 — get me the archived text and any recent snapshots around that date?

## When to prefer this

Use this endpoint when you need to retrieve historical content of a specific web page — especially when the page has changed, been deleted, or you want to verify what it said at a particular point in time. Prefer this over live web scraping when historical or time-specific content is required, or when the original page is no longer accessible.

## Known failure modes

- URL has never been archived by the Wayback Machine — no snapshot available
- Requested date is too recent for any snapshot to exist
- URL parameter missing — returns validation error
- Archived page has very little text content (JavaScript-heavy pages may not render well in archive)
- Network timeout when fetching large archived pages

## How this service works

Web archive: the Internet Archive snapshot of a page closest to a date, with the archived page text and a list of recent snapshots. See what a page said before it changed.

## Output

Returns the archived page text content from the closest Wayback Machine snapshot to the requested date, the timestamp of that snapshot, the archived URL, and a list of other recent snapshots available for that page.

## Request schema (JSON Schema)

```json
{
 "type": "object",
 "$schema": "https://json-schema.org/draft/2020-12/schema",
 "required": [
  "input"
 ],
 "properties": {
  "input": {
   "type": "object",
   "required": [
    "type",
    "method"
   ],
   "properties": {
    "type": {
     "type": "string",
     "const": "http"
    },
    "method": {
     "enum": [
      "GET"
     ],
     "type": "string"
    },
    "queryParams": {
     "type": "object",
     "required": [
      "url"
     ],
     "properties": {
      "url": {
       "type": "string"
      },
      "date": {
       "type": "string",
       "description": "YYYY-MM-DD (default: latest)"
      },
      "text": {
       "type": "boolean",
       "description": "Include page text (default true)"
      }
     }
    }
   },
   "additionalProperties": false
  },
  "output": {
   "type": "object",
   "required": [
    "type"
   ],
   "properties": {
    "type": {
     "type": "string"
    },
    "example": {
     "type": "object"
    }
   }
  }
 }
}
```

## More

- Live health (JSON, refreshed every minute): https://www.zero.xyz/c/agentrxi-wayback-machine-archive-lookup-797f0f2d/health.json
- [Zero catalog index](https://www.zero.xyz/llms.txt)
- [Other services from agentrxi.com](https://www.zero.xyz/host/agentrxi.com/llms.txt)