archive.today

A web page archive: save a snapshot of any page (text plus a screenshot copy) under a short permanent link, and search saved snapshots by domain or URL.

It keeps frozen, script-free copies of pages that later change or vanish, so you can see what a page said on a given day.

License unclear

Open archive.ph ↗ agent.md

For your project

Official API: API unclear
Data download: Not stated
License: unclear no terms or license found on the readable home page
Commercial use: Commercial use unclear
Credit: Not stated
Embedding: Embedding unclear
Using the website: Free

Read on archive.today's own pages on Oct 23, 2026 · license or terms. Check the license page before you ship.

For your agent

No official API. An agent should not scrape the site: use it by hand.

No official API or SDK could be confirmed; the home page shows URL patterns (archive.ph/<host>, archive.ph/*.<host>, archive.ph/<exact url>) for searching snapshots in a browser, but the FAQ and other pages answer bots with HTTP 429 and a CAPTCHA, so do not automate it.
Do not script requests: the site rate-limits and shows a CAPTCHA to automated clients
Saved pages are copies of third-party content; their rights stay with the original publishers

Paste into your agent: Read https://agentgid.com/resources/archive-today/agent.md before using archive.today.

What you can build

A citation helper that links to an existing archive.today snapshot next to a source URL
A research note template that records both the live URL and a manually saved snapshot link

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