Archived Web ⁽¹²⁾

There’s a certain thrill the first time you scrape a live social media feed. It feels like magic. Suddenly you’re not just seeing the posts - you’re pulling them, filtering them, slicing them into timelines, maps, or datasets. It’s the digital equivalent of listening through…

You’re scrolling. You spot something. A comment that’s about to disappear, a suspicious ad, a deleted tweet that was quoted but not archived. You want to keep it - not just save it, but preserve it in context, maybe add a note or mark it…

If you’re doing open-source intelligence, you know the rule: nothing disappears on the internet - but a lot of it gets hidden. Companies delete pages. Social media profiles get wiped. Domain owners swap hands. And what was public a year ago might be rewritten, scrubbed,…

When you look through an archived web page, you’re often reading for surface meaning - text, visuals, maybe a headline that changed over time. But sometimes, you’re after structure. Not just what the page said, but how it was organized. A list of board members.

The CDX API behind the Wayback Machine offers powerful filtering tools to refine your results. Whether you’re looking for snapshots within a specific date range or only interested in certain response codes or content types, filters help you target exactly what you need. Here’s how…