#internet-archive

Web-page time travel as an API — powered by the Internet Archive's Wayback Machine, the archive of hundreds of billions of captured web pages going back to 1996. Given any URL, find out whether it has been archived and get the snapshot closest to now, the snapshot closest to a specific date (true time-travel: see a page as it looked on, say, 1 January 2010), or the very oldest capture on record — each with its exact capture timestamp and a direct link to the archived copy. It is the go-to tool for detecting and recovering from link rot, citing sources that may change or disappear, checking when a page was first archived, and digital-preservation, research and journalism workflows. A web-archival / link-rot resource — distinct from the Internet Archive's media-item library (books, audio and video). Data from the Internet Archive Wayback Machine.

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The Internet Archive as an API — the non-profit digital library of over 40 million freely accessible items: books and texts, audio and live-music concerts, films and video, software, images and archived web pages. Search the entire archive by keyword with full Lucene field syntax (by creator, title, subject, collection and more), filter by media type (texts, audio, movies, image, software, web, live concerts) and sort by downloads, date or trending popularity, getting each item's identifier, title, creator, media type, year, download count and collections; read an item's full metadata including its description, creators, subjects, language, collections, publisher, license, dates and total size; list an item's downloadable files with their format, size, length and a direct download URL; and look up the closest Wayback Machine snapshot of any web page — the archived flag, the snapshot date and HTTP status, and the web.archive.org link, optionally near a target timestamp. Ideal for research, digital preservation, media discovery, dataset building, link-rot recovery and apps that surface public-domain and openly-licensed culture. Data from the Internet Archive (archive.org).

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