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Wayback Machine

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The Internet Archive's Wayback Machine: look up whether any URL has been archived, list every capture of a page or of a whole site with timestamps, MIME types and HTTP status codes, see how often a page was archived year by year, and search archived hosts by name.

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The crw MCP on your computer calls Wayback Machine directly. Calls cost no credits and the data does not pass through fastCRW. Install it once for Claude Code, Cursor, Codex, Windsurf, Gemini CLI or OpenCode, with your fastCRW API key in place of the placeholder:

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A prompt for your agent that names this source and how to call it through the crw MCP.

  • Captures in a year or month

    Use Wayback Machine (waybackmachine) from fastCRW Pergamon, capability "Captures in a year or month" (calendar-captures). You have a URL and a specific year or month and want each individual capture in that window. Example options: url=iana.org, date=2015. Use the crw MCP tools: crw_find_data to confirm the source and its options, then crw_get_data with provider "waybackmachine" and capability "calendar-captures". Tell me the credits used and cite the licence from the response. If the crw MCP tools are missing, install them with: npx -y crw-mcp install --api-key <your fastCRW API key>

  • Captures per month by year

    Use Wayback Machine (waybackmachine) from fastCRW Pergamon, capability "Captures per month by year" (capture-calendar). You want to see how heavily and over what span a URL was archived before pulling any captures. Example options: url=iana.org. Use the crw MCP tools: crw_find_data to confirm the source and its options, then crw_get_data with provider "waybackmachine" and capability "capture-calendar". Tell me the credits used and cite the licence from the response. If the crw MCP tools are missing, install them with: npx -y crw-mcp install --api-key <your fastCRW API key>

  • Capture history for a URL

    Use Wayback Machine (waybackmachine) from fastCRW Pergamon, capability "Capture history for a URL" (captures). You want every time a single page was archived, not just the closest capture. Example options: url=example.com, limit=50, from=2015. Use the crw MCP tools: crw_find_data to confirm the source and its options, then crw_get_data with provider "waybackmachine" and capability "captures". Tell me the credits used and cite the licence from the response. If the crw MCP tools are missing, install them with: npx -y crw-mcp install --api-key <your fastCRW API key>

  • Archived URLs under a path

    Use Wayback Machine (waybackmachine) from fastCRW Pergamon, capability "Archived URLs under a path" (path-urls). You want the archived pages inside one section of a site rather than the whole domain. Example options: url=iana.org/domains, limit=50, from=2015. Use the crw MCP tools: crw_find_data to confirm the source and its options, then crw_get_data with provider "waybackmachine" and capability "path-urls". Tell me the credits used and cite the licence from the response. If the crw MCP tools are missing, install them with: npx -y crw-mcp install --api-key <your fastCRW API key>