Check if any URL has been archived in the Internet Archive Wayback Machine. See the oldest snapshot.
Paste any URL and the tool queries the Internet Archive's Wayback Machine API to find the closest archived snapshot. You get the archive URL, timestamp, and how many years ago it was captured — handy for checking what a page looked like before a redesign or for finding content that has since disappeared from the live web.
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Paste any URL and the tool queries the Internet Archive's Wayback Machine API to find the closest archived snapshot. You get the archive URL, timestamp, and how many years ago it was captured — handy for checking what a page looked like before a redesign or for finding content that has since disappeared from the live web.
The Wayback Machine Checker is a free lookup tool for the Internet Archive's web archive at archive.org. The Archive has saved billions of web pages since 1996, and this tool gives you fast access to the closest-available snapshot for any URL you enter. It's invaluable for digital archaeology, verifying old claims, recovering deleted content, tracking how sites evolve, and auditing competitors' old copy.
Enter any website address — the live domain or a specific page. The tool handles http:// and https:// prefixes automatically.
The tool queries archive.org/wayback/available in real time. Response times are usually under 2 seconds.
If an archive exists, you get the snapshot URL, exact timestamp (YYYYMMDDhhmmss), human-readable date, the HTTP status at capture time, and how many years have passed since then.
Click the archive URL to view the historical version of the page — a perfectly preserved capture with all original HTML, CSS, and often images.
If the tool returns "No snapshot found", the URL may be too new — pages are typically crawled by the Archive weeks after first publication. Try again later, or use archive.today as a backup.
The Wayback Machine respects robots.txt retroactively — sites can request deletion of their archives. If a page you know existed returns nothing, it may have been purged.
For bulk archive checking, use the Internet Archive's Wayback CDX API directly — our tool is for quick single-URL lookups.
The Wayback Machine is a web archive run by the Internet Archive (a non-profit since 1996). It has captured and preserved hundreds of billions of web pages, letting anyone view historical versions of any public URL.
Three possibilities: (1) the page was only recently published and hasn't been crawled yet; (2) the site's robots.txt requested Archive exclusion; (3) the URL was purged after a deletion request. For recent pages, try again in a week.
Yes — visit web.archive.org/save/ and submit the URL. The Archive will capture it within minutes and make it permanently available. We don't trigger captures ourselves; this tool just looks up existing ones.
Archived snapshots are protected under fair-use and archival exceptions in most jurisdictions. Citing an archived snapshot as evidence of what a page said is generally accepted; republishing archived content wholesale is not.
First snapshots began in 1996. Early coverage of the web is thin; most URLs have dense snapshots starting around 2003-2005 as crawl frequency increased. Popular sites like news outlets are captured multiple times a day.
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