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Glad to see they finally got an API, however I'm a bit disappointed that it doesn't return the oldest archived date for a site, only the newest. I often need to
by axefrog 13y ago
Glad to see they finally got an API, however I'm a bit disappointed that it doesn't return the oldest archived date for a site, only the newest. I often need to check how long ago a site was originally archived. The API would have been very helpful for that, but the closest they provide is an option to query whether or not it was archived on a specific date, which is nowhere near as helpful.
- greglindahl 13y agoTheir older CDX API provides that functionality: https://github.com/internetarchive/wayback/tree/master/wayback-cdx-server https://github.com/internetarchive/wayback/tree/master/wayba...
- axefrog 13y agoWow, I never knew it existed, thanks for the link!
- hncommenter13 13y agoFunny, I just spent some time this weekend creating a json API wrapper around the little-known Memento API that wayback offers. My idea was to make a bookmarklet that would show prior versions of the page the user was visiting. (The backend is pretty trivial, actually, but I could use some help with the javascript/dom parts.) (The CDX API linked below is links to the actual warc/arc archive files, not the web-viewable versions.) Here's some info on the Memento API that links to web-viewable versions of a given url: http://ws-dl.blogspot.com/2013/07/2013-07-15-wayback-machine-upgrades.html http://ws-dl.blogspot.com/2013/07/2013-07-15-wayback-machine... http://web.archive.org/web/timemap/link/{URI} http://web.archive.org/web/timemap/link/{URI} will return a text stream of urls and dates. Edit: formatting