GET /wayback/available

archive.org:archive.org-api

Summary: Check Wayback availability
Operation ID: checkWaybackAvailability
Auth: unknown
Description

Check if a URL is available in the Wayback Machine and get the closest snapshot.

Parameters (2)

timestamp (string, query, optional)

Target timestamp (YYYYMMDDHHMMSS format)

Constraints: {'pattern': '^[0-9]{14}$'}

url (string, query, required)

URL to check

Examples (3)

TitleTypeURLAction
Check Wayback Machine availability openapi-spec https://archive.org/wayback/available?url=https://example.com&timestamp=20200101000000
Check Wayback availability with timestamp doc_extracted http://archive.org/wayback/available?url=http://www.xolator.com&timestamp=20130613055153
Check Wayback availability (first snapshot) doc_extracted http://archive.org/wayback/available?url=http://www.xolator.com

Probe History

Latency

Status Codes

TimeStatusLatencySize
2026-03-23 10:41:09.040477 200 5361ms
2026-03-23 09:50:20.596913 200 5427ms
2026-03-23 09:22:58.126111 429 518ms

Response Changes

WhenOldNew
2026-03-23 09:50:20.596913 ae138caf8767 639b3711ceca
2026-03-23 10:41:09.040477 639b3711ceca 3fe053554e62