# Wayback Machine Snapshots

> 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.

## Facts

- Endpoint: GET https://bess-x402.onrender.com/v1/web/wayback?utm_source=zero.xyz
- Price: $0.002/call
- Payment: x402
- Status: unknown
- Last checked: 2026-10-28
- Activations on Zero: 0
- Tags: x402
- Canonical page: https://www.zero.xyz/c/wayback-machine-snapshots-1c7f4ccc
- Structured record (JSON): https://api.zero.xyz/v1/capabilities/cap_ik6QO3kzQuq7KC-qdd3YJ

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 wayback-machine-snapshots-1c7f4ccc
```

Example prompt: Can you find the Wayback Machine snapshot of https://example.com closest to 2018-06-15, and also tell me when it was first and last captured?

## When to prefer this

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.

## Known failure modes

- 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

## 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.

## 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",
      "HEAD",
      "DELETE"
     ],
     "type": "string"
    },
    "queryParams": {
     "type": "object",
     "required": [
      "url"
     ],
     "properties": {
      "url": {
       "type": "string",
       "description": "URL or domain"
      },
      "date": {
       "type": "string",
       "description": "Target date YYYY-MM-DD (default latest)"
      }
     }
    }
   },
   "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/wayback-machine-snapshots-1c7f4ccc/health.json
- [Zero catalog index](https://www.zero.xyz/llms.txt)
- [Other services from bess-x402.onrender.com](https://www.zero.xyz/host/bess-x402.onrender.com/llms.txt)