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Internet Archive Wayback

Internet Archive Wayback MCP Connector for Claude

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Check URL archival status, explore capture history, and analyze Wayback Machine data.

10 tools Official Updated Jun 28, 2026 Official Vinkius Partner
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Connect the Internet Archive Wayback Machine to any AI agent and access the world's largest web archive — 800B+ archived web pages spanning 25+ years of internet history.

What you can do

  • URL Availability Check — Verify if any URL has been archived and find the latest snapshot
  • Full CDX Capture History — Get detailed capture history with timestamps, status codes, MIME types, and sizes
  • Filter by Year — Find all captures from a specific year for temporal analysis
  • Filter by HTTP Status — Find captures that returned specific status codes (200, 404, 301, 500)
  • Filter by MIME Type — Find captures of specific resource types (HTML, images, PDFs, CSS)
  • First Capture — Find when a URL was first archived
  • Latest Capture — Find the most recent archived version of a URL
  • Capture Count — Get the total number of times a URL has been archived
  • Deduplicated Captures — Get unique captures collapsed by URL key
  • Subdomain Discovery — Find all archived subdomains of a domain

How it works

  1. Subscribe to this server
  2. No API key needed — completely free and public
  3. Start exploring web history from Claude, Cursor, or any MCP-compatible client

The Wayback Machine is a non-profit service preserving internet history — no authentication required for access.

Who is this for?

  • Journalists & Researchers — find archived versions of websites to verify claims, track content changes, and recover deleted information
  • Web Developers — analyze how websites evolved over time, compare design changes, and find historical implementations
  • Legal & Compliance — preserve evidence of website content at specific points in time for legal proceedings
  • Historians & Academics — study the evolution of the internet, track how organizations presented themselves online over decades
  • Cybersecurity — investigate phishing sites, track domain changes, and discover subdomain footprints
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10 tools expose this connector's capabilities to your AI agent.

get_captures_by_mime_type

Common types: "text/html" (web pages), "image/jpeg" (JPEG images), "application/pdf" (PDFs), "text/css" (stylesheets). Use this to find specific resource types in the archive. Get captures filtered by MIME type

get_captures_by_status

Common codes: "200" (OK), "404" (Not Found), "301" (Redirect), "500" (Server Error). Use this to analyze site availability patterns over time. Get captures filtered by HTTP status code

get_captures_by_year

Use this to analyze archival frequency or find snapshots from a particular year. Year should be 4-digit format (e.g., "2020"). Get captures filtered by a specific year

get_cdx_captures

Each capture includes timestamp, original URL, MIME type, HTTP status code, and file size. Use this for comprehensive archival analysis. Optional limit parameter controls maximum results. Get detailed capture history from the CDX server

check_availability

Returns the closest (most recent) snapshot timestamp and availability status. Use this to verify if a page is preserved and find its latest archived version. Check if a URL has been archived by the Wayback Machine

get_captures_collapsed

This shows unique page captures without redundant entries for the same page. Use this for a cleaner view of archived content. Get captures deduplicated by URL key

get_capture_count

Use this to measure how frequently a page has been preserved over time. Get the total number of captures for a URL

get_first_capture

Includes the timestamp, status code, and original URL. Use this to find when a page was first preserved. Get the first (earliest) capture of a URL

get_latest_capture

Includes timestamp, status code, and URL. Use this to find the newest preserved version of a page. Get the most recent capture of a URL

get_subdomain_captures

g., *.example.com). Use this to discover the archival footprint of an entire domain, finding all subdomains that have been preserved. Get captures for all subdomains of a domain

See how to talk to your AI agent using Internet Archive Wayback.

Check if https://example.com has been archived.

✅ URL is archived! Closest snapshot: 20240115120000 (January 15, 2024). View at: https://web.archive.org/web/20240115120000/https://example.com. Total captures: 1,247 over 28 years.

Show me all captures of https://example.com from 2020.

Found 52 captures of https://example.com in 2020. First: 2020-01-03 (status 200), Last: 2020-12-28 (status 200). Average capture frequency: ~1 per week. All returned HTTP 200 (OK).

Find all subdomains of archive.org that have been captured.

Found captures for 15 subdomains of archive.org: www, web, developer, donate, help, blog, advancedsearch, petabox, us.archive.org, and others. Most captures are from www and web subdomains. Oldest capture dates back to 1998.

The Wayback Machine has archived web pages since 1996. However, coverage varies significantly — major websites have captures going back 20+ years, while smaller or newer sites may have fewer or no captures. Use get_first_capture to find the earliest archived version of any URL.

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