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web.archive.org · HTTP 200

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Spider read web.archive.org in 199 ms without a browser and returned 186 lines of clean markdown, including sections like "Texts" and "Video".

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Response web.archive.org/index.md markdown · 186 lines
Keep the news in the Wayback Machine. Sign Fight for the Future's letter.Software](https://archive.org/details/vintagesoftware)Software](https://archive.org/details/cd-roms)Software Library](https://archive.org/details/cdromsoftware)Software Library](https://archive.org/details/tucows)CD-ROMs](https://archive.org/details/cdbbsarchive)Capsules Compilation](https://archive.org/details/softwarecapsules)### TextsLibraries](https://archive.org/details/americana)Libraries](https://archive.org/details/smithsonian)Collection](https://archive.org/details/lincolncollection)Libraries](https://archive.org/details/toronto)Library](https://archive.org/details/universallibrary)Gutenberg](https://archive.org/details/gutenberg)Library](https://archive.org/details/iacl)Heritage Library](https://archive.org/details/biodiversity)Language](https://archive.org/details/booksbylanguage)### Video9/11](https://archive.org/details/911)Archives](https://archive.org/details/prelinger)Street](https://archive.org/details/occupywallstreet)Library](https://archive.org/details/nsa)& Cartoons](https://archive.org/details/animationandcartoons)& Technology](https://archive.org/details/computersandtechvideos)& Academic Films](https://archive.org/details/culturalandacademicfilms)Public Affairs](https://archive.org/details/newsandpublicaffairs)& Religion](https://archive.org/details/spiritualityandreligion)Videos](https://archive.org/details/gamevideos)Search the history of more than 1 trillion
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The same call, in code.

The capture above came back as markdown. These examples add a key, so you get browser rendering, proxies, and concurrency on web.archive.org.

web-archive-org-scraper.ts
import { SpiderBrowser } from "spider-browser";

const spider = new SpiderBrowser({
  apiKey: process.env.SPIDER_API_KEY!,
});

await spider.connect();
const page = spider.page!;
await page.goto("https://www.web.archive.org");

// No selectors, no schema. Spider reads the page and names the fields.
const data = await page.scrape();

console.log(data);
await spider.close();
ready to run · spider-browser, no selectors

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Fields you can pull.

BannerBanner CloseDesktop SubnavFooterMain ContentMeta DescriptionMeta TitleNavReact Wayback SearchSearch MenuSocial ButtonsTitleTopnav

Spider names these from the page. The capture above came back as markdown; the same call with return_format: "json" returns them as keys.

What web.archive.org costs to scrape.

The capture above cost $0.000247 to fetch. Pricing is $1 per GB of pre-transformation bandwidth plus $0.001 per CPU minute, so a page like this one lands at a fraction of a cent. Failed requests are billed at $0.

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Run it keyless, no account

curl -X POST https://api.spider.cloud/scrape -H "Content-Type: application/json" -d '{"url": "https://web.archive.org/", "return_format": "markdown"}'

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