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Wayback Machine Snapshots
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Wayback Machine Snapshots is a paid API for AI agents from bess-x402.onrender.com, paid per call via x402, $0.002/call, status unknown (last checked 2026-10-28).
Retrieves Internet Archive Wayback Machine snapshots of a URL: the capture closest to a given date, plus the first and most recent captures, with direct archive links.
Price / call$0.002
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How this service works
Internet Archive Wayback Machine snapshots of a URL: the capture closest to a date, plus the first and latest captures, with direct archive links. Use to see how a page looked before or recover deleted content.
Output
Returns the archive snapshot closest to the requested date (or latest if no date given), plus the first and most recent captures of the URL, each with a direct archive.org link and capture timestamp.
Example use cases
Recovering deleted product page
“The old product page at https://acme.com/products/widget-pro was taken down last year. Can you find the most recent Wayback Machine snapshot of it so I can see what it said?”
Researching historical website design
“I want to see what the homepage of https://nytimes.com looked like around 2005-01-01 — can you pull the Wayback Machine capture closest to that date?”
Verifying when a page first appeared
“Can you check the Wayback Machine for https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bitcoin and tell me when it was first ever archived and what the earliest capture looks like?”
Technical details
Endpoint
GEThttps://bess-x402.onrender.com/v1/web/wayback?utm_source=zero.xyzWhen to prefer
Use this endpoint when you need to look up historical or archived versions of a specific URL via the Internet Archive Wayback Machine, especially to recover deleted content, verify how a page looked on a past date, or find the first/last known capture. Prefer this over general web scraping when the live page is unavailable or you specifically need a historical snapshot.
Side effects
- URL has never been crawled by the Wayback Machine — no snapshot found
- Invalid or malformed URL provided
- Date format not in YYYY-MM-DD — query may fail or default to latest
- Rate limiting or availability issues with the Internet Archive API
- Very recent or private URLs may not have any archived captures
Input
Schema · Request body
| Field | Type | Description |
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| inputrequired | object | |
| output | object |
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