Free Chrome extension · v3

Explore the history of any webpage.

One click opens the page you're on — or any URL you paste — across eight independent web archives. Compare what the Wayback Machine, Archive.today, Arquivo.pt, Archive-It, Ghostarchive, the UK Web Archive, Trove and Common Crawl remember — then jump to a specific date, browse a whole domain, or save the page now.

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One permission (activeTab) No tracking, no account required 8 archives, one popup

800 × 600 POPUP

Web Archive ViewerExplore the history of any webpage

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_archiving

Check Archives

Looking up en.wikipedia.org across 8 archives.

Search All Archives 8One tab per archive

Wayback MachineLargest web archive — billions of pages since 1996.

Archive.todayOn-demand snapshots; great for paywalled pages.

Arquivo.ptPortuguese Web Archive — full-text searchable.

Archive-ItCollections from 1,000+ libraries & institutions.

GhostarchiveOn-demand archive, strong on video & social.

UK Web ArchiveBritish Library legal-deposit archive since 2004.

Trove Web ArchiveAustralian Web Archive by the National Library of Australia, since 1996.

Common CrawlOpen crawl index — raw JSON for developers.

v3.1.0 · Alt+Shift+W opens the Wayback Machine instantlyShortcuts · Website

Why people use it

Built for researchers, journalists, SEOs and the simply curious.

Dead link? Edited article? Paywall? A page that "never said that"? Check every major archive in seconds instead of visiting eight sites by hand.

Knows where you are

The current tab's URL is pre-filled. Already on a Wayback snapshot? It unwraps the original page for you. Bare domains like example.com just work.

Eight archives, one click

Open a single service or all of them at once in background tabs. Services that support it get an Archive now shortcut to capture the page today.

Fast by default

Alt+Shift+A opens the popup, Alt+Shift+W jumps straight to the Wayback Machine, Enter searches. Light and dark themes follow your system.

Included archives

The best public web archives, side by side.

Each card sends you to the service's own lookup page for the exact URL. We never guess whether a snapshot exists — the archive tells you.

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}

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}

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}

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}

Ghostarchive

Free on-demand archive with strong support for video and social-media pages. Prefix and wildcard search.

ghostarchive.org/search?term={url}

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}

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}

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}

Verified 12 Sep 2026. Memento Time Travel was discontinued in late 2025 and Perma.cc offers no public lookup by URL, so neither is included in this version — see the roadmap.

How it works

Three steps. No account, no setup.

Open the popup

Click the toolbar icon or press Alt+Shift+A. Your current page's URL is already filled in.

Pick an archive — or all of them

Press Enter for the Wayback Machine, click Search on any card, or hit Search All Archives.

Compare what survived

Each archive opens in its own tab with the exact URL pre-loaded. Found nothing? Use Archive now to capture the page today.

Roadmap

This is version one of a bigger idea.

The architecture is modular — every archive is a plug-in — and these features are next. Free features stay free.

FreeSnapshot timeline & calendarAll captures from all archives on one timeline.

FreeWebsite historyFirst seen, capture density, redesign eras.

FreeSaved pages & collectionsBookmark snapshots into named collections.

ProCompare versionsSide-by-side and text diff between two snapshots.

ProDeleted-page recoveryFind and extract the best surviving copy of a 404.

ProHistorical SEOTitles, meta, headings and links over time.

ProMonitoring & alertsKnow when a page changes or a new capture lands.

ProAI analysisPlain-language summaries of what changed.

Privacy

Nothing to opt out of.

Reads the current tab's URL only when you open the popup — that is what the single activeTab permission does.
No analytics, no telemetry, no remote code. Signing in is optional — it only talks to webinternetarchive.com, our own site.
Every action is a plain navigation to a third-party archive. The code is small enough to read in one sitting.

manifest.json"permissions": [
"activeTab", "storage", "alarms"
],
"host_permissions": [
"https://webinternetarchive.com/*"
]

// Our own site only — never the pages you visit.