The Internet Archive exposes the Wayback Machine's snapshot index and a search over its collections of web pages, books, audio, and video.
None — no key, no signup. Every example runs as-is.
Full reference: https://archive.org/developers/
The archived copy nearest a timestamp (YYYYMMDD).
curl "https://archive.org/wayback/available?url=example.com×tamp=20000101"{
"url": "example.com",
"archived_snapshots": {
"closest": {
"status": "200",
"available": true,
"url": "http://web.archive.org/web/20020120142510/http://example.com:80/",
"timestamp": "20020120142510"
}
},
"timestamp": "20000101"
}curl "https://archive.org/advancedsearch.php?q=title%3A%28apollo+11%29&fl%5B%5D=identifier&fl%5B%5D=title&rows=2&output=json"{
"responseHeader": {
"status": 0,
"QTime": 558,
"params": {
"query": "title:(apollo 11)",
"qin": "title:(apollo 11)",
"fields": "identifier,title",
"wt": "json",
"rows": 2,
"start": 0
}
},
"response": {
"numFound": 1626,
"start": 0,
"docs": [
{
"identifier": "youtube-RDiMzAXdXvk",
"title": "20th anniversary special on Apollo 11 moon landing that aired on San Diego's News 8 in 1989"
},
{
"identifier": "CSPAN_20150104_040000_Apollo_Lunar_Missions",
"title": "Apollo Lunar Missions : CSPAN : January 3, 2015 11:00pm-12:15am EST"
}
]
}
}curl https://archive.org/metadata/Apollo11MissionAudio{}