Wayback Machine API — Get Historical Snapshots of Any Website

The Internet Archive's CDX API lets you find every saved version of any website. The API https://web.archive.org/cdx/search/cdx?url=apple.com&output=json&limit=20 Returns: timestamp, original URL, status code, MIME type, file size, digest. What You Can Do See how a site looked 10 years ago — useful for brand research Track competitor changes — when did they redesign? Find deleted content — pages that are now 404 Verify claims — what did a company say before they edited it? Archive URL Format https://web.archive.org/web/20250101120000/https://example.com Timestamp format: YYYYMMDDHHmmss Collapse by Date Use collapse=timestamp:8 to get one snapshot per day instead of every crawl. Apple.com Example My scraper found 4,817 snapshots for apple.com across 6 sitemap partitions. I built a Wayback Machine Scraper on Apify — search knotless_cadence wayback .