Skip to content
//Wayback Machine Scraper example\\

Yearly snapshots with page text, 10 results

One snapshot per year with the archived content.

Updated October 21, 2026

Input

The input this example runs Wayback Machine Scraper with. “Try this input” opens it in the console, where you can run it as-is or change any field first.

URLs or domainsurls
python.org, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_Archive
What to getmode
Snapshots (capture history)
Max results per URLmaxResults
10
Include page contentincludeContent
Yes
Match typematchType
Auto
HTTP status codesstatusCodes
200
Collapse capturescollapse
One per year
OrdersortOrder
Oldest first
Content formatcontentFormat
Markdown
Main content onlymainContentOnly
Yes
Max characters per pagemaxContentChars
5
Parallel page downloadsmaxConcurrency
4
.json
{
  "urls": [
    "python.org",
    "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_Archive"
  ],
  "maxResults": 10,
  "collapse": "year",
  "statusCodes": "200",
  "includeContent": true,
  "mode": "snapshots",
  "matchType": "auto",
  "sortOrder": "oldest",
  "contentFormat": "markdown",
  "mainContentOnly": true,
  "maxContentChars": 5,
  "maxConcurrency": 4
}

The internet is full of data.
Start owning yours.

Scrape.ly gives you the infrastructure, the tooling, and the team to extract, process, and operationalize web data at any scale. Setup takes minutes. The advantage lasts forever.

No credit card. No setup calls.