# Citiview Wayback Web Archive Lookup

> Citiview Wayback Web Archive Lookup is a paid API for AI agents from agents.citiviewgroup.com, paid per call via x402, $0.005/call, status unknown (last checked 2026-10-14).

Fetches the Internet Archive (Wayback Machine) snapshot of a webpage closest to a specified date, returning archived page text and a list of recent snapshots.

## Facts

- Endpoint: GET https://agents.citiviewgroup.com/v1/wayback?utm_source=zero.xyz
- Price: $0.005/call
- Payment: x402
- Status: unknown
- Last checked: 2026-10-14
- Activations on Zero: 0
- Tags: x402
- Canonical page: https://www.zero.xyz/c/citiview-wayback-web-archive-lookup-1cb22a35
- Structured record (JSON): https://api.zero.xyz/v1/capabilities/cap_HMsRWM9lvSERkloaV2s_b

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 citiview-wayback-web-archive-lookup-1cb22a35
```

Example prompt: Can you pull up the Internet Archive snapshot of https://example.com/article closest to March 15, 2023, and show me the archived text and recent snapshots?

## When to prefer this

Use this endpoint when you need to retrieve historical content of a webpage as it existed at or near a specific past date, verify what a page said before it was changed or deleted, or access content from pages that no longer exist. It is the right choice over a live web scraper when the current page has changed and historical context is needed. Prefer this over a general search when you need the exact archived text of a specific URL.

## Known failure modes

- URL has never been archived — no snapshots available for that domain or page
- Date is too far in the past with no nearby snapshot — returns closest available or error
- Invalid URL format causes a validation error
- Internet Archive is temporarily unavailable, causing timeout or 5xx error
- Page was archived but text extraction failed, returning empty or minimal content

## 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 of the URL closest to the requested date, a timestamp of the archived snapshot, and a list of recent archive snapshots available for that URL from the Internet Archive.

## 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/citiview-wayback-web-archive-lookup-1cb22a35/health.json
- [Zero catalog index](https://www.zero.xyz/llms.txt)
- [Other services from agents.citiviewgroup.com](https://www.zero.xyz/host/agents.citiviewgroup.com/llms.txt)