No. 01Since 1996
Wayback Machine
Internet Archive. The largest web archive in the world, capturing since 1996. Opens the snapshot calendar; can also save the page now.
web.archive.org/web/*/{url}v3.2.0 · Chrome · Edge · Firefox · Free
Every page
has a past.
Open the page you're on — or any URL — across 8 public web archives at once. Jump to any date, see what changed, and recover pages that have disappeared.
web.archive.org/web/19980314061532/gazette.example
The Daily Gazette
Your ONLINE source for news!!
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Town council approves riverside plan
The council voted 7–2 on Tuesday night to go ahead with the riverside plan…
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You are visitor 004213 · Best viewed in 800×600
199814 Mar 1998 · Wayback Machine
One page, five captures, four archives. Drag the timeline.
v3.2.0 New
Fresh in this release.Historical trends Pro
Words, headings and links charted across captures, with price and title-change markers.
Export research Pro
Timeline, Compare and SEO results as CSV, JSON, Markdown, an HTML report or citations.
Timeline density
Every change, daily or monthly views; filter pages, redirects and errors; honest change markers.
Settings & Pro in the popup
Settings, Pro features and a new Info & help panel open right inside the popup.
8independent archives, one popup
14tools, from lookup to evidence report
30years of captures, 1996 to today
0analytics, trackers or ads
§ 01 The tools
From “was it archived?” to “here's the proof.”
Finding and opening archived pages is free, forever. Pro adds the investigation tools — compare, recover, bulk and analysis. Pick a tool to see what it does.
Tool 01 / 14
Search archives
One card per archive with capture count, first and last date, and Latest / Oldest links. Search All opens every archive in background tabs.
- Free
- All 8 archives, live “archived on 5 of 8” line, toolbar badge per tab
§ 02 The archives
Eight collections. One search.
Each lookup goes to the archive's own page for that exact URL. We never guess whether a snapshot exists — the archive tells you.
No. 02Since 2012
Archive.today
Community-run on-demand archive (archive.ph). Excellent for paywalled and JavaScript-heavy pages. Lists every capture; can snapshot instantly.
archive.ph/{url}No. 03Since 1996
Arquivo.pt
The Portuguese Web Archive, run by FCT. Preserves millions of sites worldwide with a clean version list and full-text search.
arquivo.pt/url/search?q={url}No. 04Since 2006
Archive-It
Internet Archive's institutional service used by 1,000+ libraries, universities and governments. Searches all public collections.
wayback.archive-it.org/all/*/{url}No. 05Since 2020
Ghostarchive
Free on-demand archive with strong support for video and social-media pages. Prefix and wildcard search.
ghostarchive.org/search?term={url}No. 06Since 2004
UK Web Archive
Collaboration of the six UK legal-deposit libraries led by the British Library. UK sites and beyond since 2004.
webarchive.org.uk/wayback/archive/*/{url}No. 07Since 1996
Trove Web Archive
The National Library of Australia's web archive, browsed through Trove. Strong on .au domains but crawls widely; captures go back to 1996.
webarchive.nla.gov.au/awa/*/{url}No. 08Since 2008
Common Crawl
Non-profit open dataset of petabytes of crawled pages. Opens the capture index for the newest monthly crawl (JSON, developer-oriented).
index.commoncrawl.org/CC-MAIN-…-index?url={url}Lookup links verified by hand on 12 Sep 2026. Memento Time Travel shut down in late 2025 and Perma.cc has no public lookup by URL, so neither is included.
§ 03 How it works
Three keystrokes. No setup.
- 1AltShiftA
Open the popup
Or click the toolbar icon. The page you're on is already filled in — even if it's a Wayback snapshot, which is unwrapped to the original URL.
- 2Enteror1–9
Pick an archive — or all
Enter opens the Wayback Machine. Number keys switch tools. Search All opens every archive in background tabs.
- 3AltShiftW
Or skip the popup entirely
Jump from any page straight to its Wayback Machine history. Nothing found? Archive now saves it today.
§ 04 Free & Pro
Finding is free. Investigating is Pro.
Pro runs on our own small API over the public archives. No hosted AI, no metered extras — which is why it can cost less than a coffee.
Free$0forever · no account needed
- All 8 archives, one popup — and Search All
- Timeline: years, months and captures by day
- Snapshot by date, domain history, archive now
- Copy links, recent lookups, keyboard shortcuts
- Library: 1 collection, 25 items, citations
Profrom $2/moyearly, monthly or lifetime
- Everything in Free, plus:
- Compare versions: text diff, change summary, visual diff
- Recover dead pages and extract their text
- SEO & changes with interactive trend charts, Search history
- Export research: CSV, JSON, Markdown, HTML, citations
- Bulk lookup of up to 1,000 URLs, full URL inventory
- Evidence reports, change markers, synced Library
§ 05 Privacy
Nothing to opt out of.
- Reads the current tab's URL only when you open the popup — that is all
activeTaballows. - No analytics, no telemetry, no remote code. Recent lookups stay on your device.
- Signing in is optional and only ever talks to
webinternetarchive.com. Opening an archive is a plain link to that archive.
"permissions": [
"activeTab", "storage",
"alarms", "scripting"
],
"host_permissions": [
"https://webinternetarchive.com/*"
]
// Our own site only — never the pages you visit.
// No <all_urls>. No tabs. No history.§ 06 Next up
On the workbench. Free stays free.
Every archive is a plug-in and every tool is a module, so new ones ship without breaking the old ones. This is what's being built next.
- 01Right-click menuOpen in Wayback, open in all archives, archive now or recover — on any link, page or selection.Free
- 02Omnibox keywordType wa example.com — or wa 2015 example.com — straight into the address bar.Free
- 03Save Page Now with your own keyConfirmed captures, outlinks and skip-if-recent using your archive.org account.Pro
- 04Jump between changesPrevious / next changed version in the Timeline, one keystroke each.Pro
- 05More copy formatsCSV, HTML and BibTeX lists, with capture dates when known.Free
- 06Side panel modeKeep the tools open beside the page while you browse.Free
§ 07 From the blog
Guides to the web's memory.
How to see old versions of websites, recover dead pages, compare snapshots and cite archived sources — step by step. All 26 articles
No. 01
Web Archive Viewer Is on Chrome, Edge and Firefox: Install Guide, Shortcuts and Tips
Web Archive Viewer is now in the Chrome Web Store, Firefox Add-ons and Microsoft Edge Add-ons. How to install it in each browser, set up the keyboard shortcuts, what each of the 14 tools does and what stays free.
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No. 02
How to See Old Versions of Any Website (2026 Guide)
Four reliable ways to view what a website looked like in the past: the Wayback Machine calendar, other web archives, a snapshot from a specific date, and a one-click browser extension that checks eight archives at once.
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No. 03
8 Wayback Machine Alternatives — and How to Search Them All at Once
The Wayback Machine is the biggest web archive, not the only one. Here are seven more free archives — Archive.today, Arquivo.pt, Archive-It, Ghostarchive, UK Web Archive, Trove and Common Crawl — what each is best at, and how to check them all in one click.
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No. 04
How to Recover a Deleted Web Page (Even a 404)
A page you need now returns 404, or the whole site is gone. Here is a step-by-step method to find a surviving copy in the web archives, pick the best capture, and extract the text so you never lose it again.
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§ 08 Start here