More advanced search options
There are a number of easy URL-based queries for conducting
Advanced Searches on the documents in the Wayback Machine. To conduct
these Advanced Searches, simply enter the following URLs in your browser's
location or address bar.
Retrieving the most recently archived copy of a specific URL
http://wayback.archive.org/http://www.website.com
where "http://www.website.com"
is the target URL. This query returns the most recently archived
version of that target URL in the archive.
Retrieving an archived copy of a specific URL from given date
http://wayback.archive.org/YYYYMMDDhhmmss/http://www.website.com
This returns a specific document whose URL matches the target URL and
whose archive date most closely matches the date specified in the format
YYYYMMDDhhmmss.
Example
http://wayback.archive.org/20001015123015/http://www.abc.com
This returns the document whose URL exactly matches http://www.abc.com
and whose archival date most closely matches October 15, 2000
at 12:30 pm and 15 seconds.
The date need not be specified to the second. Using a truncated date
will return the document whose URL exactly matches the target URL and
whose archival date most closely matches the average value of the date
specified.
Example
http://wayback.archive.org/2000/http://www.abc.com
This returns the document whose URL exactly matches http://www.abc.com
and whose archival date most closely matches July 1, 2000 (July 1 being
the middle of the year or the "average value" of the year
2000).
http://wayback.archive.org/200010/http://www.abc.com
This returns the document whose URL exactly matches http://www.abc.com
and whose archival date most closely matches October 15, 2000
(the 15th being the middle of October or the "average value"
of October, 2000).
Searching for all copies of a specific URL archived in a given time period
http://wayback.archive.org/YYYYMMDDhhmmss*/http://www.website.com
This returns all copies of a specific target URL (e.g.
http://www.website.com) which were archived beginning with the
date specified in the format YYYYMMDDhhmmss.
Example
http://wayback.archive.org/200003*/http://www.website.com
This query results in a list of all documents archived in March
2000 whose URLs begin with http://www.abc.com. The list might
look like this:
http://wayback.archive.org/20000330120000/http://www.abc.com
http://wayback.archive.org/20000328173120/http://www.abc.com
http://wayback.archive.org/20000326121407/http://www.abc.com
http://wayback.archive.org/20000323095734/http://www.abc.com
etc.
Searching for all URLs for a site archived in a given given time period
http://wayback.archive.org/YYYYMMDDhhmmss*/http://www.website.com*
This returns all URLs that begin with the target URL (e.g. "http://www.website.com")
and whose archival dates begin with the date specified.
Example
http://wayback.archive.org/200003*/http://www.abc.com*
This query results in a list of all documents archived in March
2000 whose URLs begin with http://www.abc.com. The list might
look like this:
http://wayback.archive.org/20000330120000/http://www.abc.com
http://wayback.archive.org/20000327153210/http://www.abc.com/pages.html
http://wayback.archive.org/20000326115906/http://www.acb.com/index.html
http://wayback.archive.org/20000320021630/http://www.abc.com/reviews.html
etc.
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