Archive-It
Operator: Internet Archive, United States
Searches publicly accessible, curated web archives and displays historical web pages with their capture dates.
Media & Archives
Product
Availability and source date
As of: 25 October 2026.
Check: 25 October 2026.
Public full-text search for climate and opening an archived Fortune article.
About 1,479 search results with metadata. An archived article, with its collection and capture date of 12 June 2017, was displayed in full in the replay. No crawls or API requests were run.
Use in OSINT research
Finds earlier web pages and documents in collections curated by Archive-It partners. Full-text search, collection details and capture dates support research into how websites and statements have changed.
Queries
| Input | Result | Result type |
|---|---|---|
| Keyword / free text | Archived pages with text snippets, source collection, curating institution and archive date. | Retrieved |
| URL | Available archived versions or CDX index entries for a URL within selected collections. | Retrieved |
Features
- Searches public archive collections by full text, website and institution.
- Filters full-text results by host, period and file format.
- Displays the collection, curating institution and capture date.
- Opens archived web pages in a replay view.
- Provides index and capture metadata through the documented CDX/C API.
Categories
- Media & Archives
- Web archives
Coverage
Dataset
Access
Requirements
Export
Provider
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Interfaces
API
MCP
AI agents
Usage note
Legal note
Limitations
- Not all collections are publicly accessible.
- According to the current help pages, the global CDX endpoint /all is temporarily disabled.
Guides and practical reports
Official · Archive-It: query the CDX index by collection
Archive-It · EN
Explains archived capture queries, result fields and current endpoint restrictions.