wayback_lookup
Wayback Lookup
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Retrieve Wayback Machine snapshots for a domain: first capture, latest, total count, snapshot list. Use to investigate domain history and age; for full audit use domain_report. Free: 30/hr, Pro: 500/hr. status='ok' means the count is authoritative (even when 0 → confirmed no archives). status='unavailable' means CDX timed out/rate-limited/5xx — total_snapshots is OMITTED (unknown, NOT zero) and the agent should NOT report "no snapshots"; the warnings[] array carries the cdx_* error code (cdx_timeout/cdx_rate_limited/cdx_unavailable/cdx_error/cdx_parse_error/cdx_body_too_large). Heavy domains (kernel.org, microsoft.com, archive.org itself) frequently time out the CDX endpoint despite having millions of snapshots — fall back to archive_url for manual inspection. Returns {domain, status, total_snapshots, first_seen, last_seen, years_online, snapshots, archive_url, summary, warnings}.
Input schema
| Property | Type | Required | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| domain | string | yes | Domain to look up in web archives (e.g. 'example.com', 'archive.org') |
Raw JSON schema
{
"properties": {
"domain": {
"description": "Domain to look up in web archives (e.g. 'example.com', 'archive.org')",
"title": "Domain",
"type": "string"
}
},
"required": [
"domain"
],
"title": "wayback_lookupArguments",
"type": "object"
}