Wayback Machine Scraper (Snapshots & Archived URLs)

Wayback Machine Snapshots and Archived URLs

Get Wayback Machine history for any page, or the list of every archived URL on a website. Each result has the capture date, HTTP status, content type, size and direct links to the archived copy.

Quick start

1. Press Try for free. The form opens with a working example (apify.com).
2. Replace it with your own URLs or domains.
3. Press Start. Results appear as they are found; download them as Excel, CSV or JSON, or use the API.

A result looks like this (some columns):

url	timestamp	capturedAt	snapshotUrl	rawUrl
https://example.com/pricing	20240312093011	2024-03-12T09:30:11Z	https://web.archive.org/web/202403120930...	https://web.archive.org/web/202403120930...

What it does

• Page history: every capture of one page over time, or one per day, month or year, or only when the content changed.
• Site inventory: every archived URL across a domain (with subdomains), a host or a path.
• Filters by date range, successful captures only (HTTP 200) and web pages only.
• Direct links to the archived page, plus a raw link without the Wayback toolbar for scraping.
• Pages through very large sites automatically.

Who it's for

• SEO teams recovering lost pages, old URLs and redirects after a migration.
• Researchers, journalists and legal teams proving what a page said on a date.
• Competitive intelligence: how often a competitor changed pricing or messaging.
• Domain buyers checking a domain's history before buying.

Input

Field	What to enter
URLs or domains	https://example.com/pricing or example.com, one per line
What to get	Snapshots of the exact page, or archived URLs on the domain, host or path
Keep	Every capture, one per URL, day, month or year, or only content changes
From / to date	Optional
Only successful captures	HTTP 200 only (on by default)
Only web pages	Skip images, scripts and files
Maximum results per URL	Caps the run

{ "urls": ["https://example.com/pricing"], "mode": "page", "collapse": "content_changes", "dateFrom": "2022-01-01" }

Output

{
  "input": "https://example.com/pricing", "url": "https://example.com/pricing",
  "timestamp": "20240312093011", "capturedAt": "2024-03-12T09:30:11Z",
  "snapshotUrl": "https://web.archive.org/web/20240312093011/https://example.com/pricing",
  "rawUrl": "https://web.archive.org/web/20240312093011id_/https://example.com/pricing",
  "statusCode": 200, "mimeType": "text/html", "sizeBytes": 18234, "digest": "Q3K..."
}

Pricing

Event	When it is charged	Price per 1,000 (Free / Bronze / Silver / Gold plan)
URL queried	Each request to the archive for a URL or domain (up to 5,000 captures each; most URLs need one), once per started 1.5 MB, including ones with no captures.	$2.50 on every plan
Snapshot scraped	Each capture or archived URL returned in the dataset.	$0.50 / $0.45 / $0.40 / $0.35

Example: the monthly history of 100 pages over 5 years (about 60 captures each) on the Free plan costs 100 × $0.0025 + 6,000 × $0.0005 = $3.25.

Notes and limits

• Data comes from the Internet Archive's public index. It can be slow at busy times; the tool waits politely and reports any URL it could not query.
• The archive only has what it captured, so small or new sites may have few or no captures.
• This tool lists captures; it does not download the archived pages' content.

Workflows with other Pagecraft tools

Pagecraft tools are built to work together. Ideas that use this one:

Research a competitor. See how a competitor markets, sells and has changed over time.

1. Google Ads Transparency Scraper: The ads they run on Google, with formats and dates.
2. Shopify Store Products Scraper: Their product catalogue, prices and stock, if they sell on Shopify.
3. Tech Stack Detector: The technology behind their website.
4. This tool: How their website has changed, from archived copies.
5. Logo & Brand Colours Extractor: Their logo, brand colours and fonts.

Use with AI agents (MCP)

Connect this tool to Claude, Cursor, VS Code or any other MCP client through the Apify MCP server. To load only this tool, use this server URL:

https://mcp.apify.com?tools=pagecraft/wayback-machine-snapshots

Then ask, for example: "Show me how this competitor's pricing page has changed over the last two years". The agent gets back each snapshot with its capture date, status and direct archive link. Each call is charged per event at the prices in Pricing above. Agents without an Apify account can also pay per run through Apify's agentic payments.