osintverse-community/waybackpack
Lists every Wayback Machine snapshot of a URL, optionally within a date range
Takes url → finds url
No key · Python wheel
No key · Python wheel
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Find and save archived copies of a page
5 tools. 4 run with ot in a sandbox on Windows, macOS and Linux; 1 with otlite on Linux and macOS, no Docker. Compare them side by side ↓
The Wayback Machine has captured most public pages many times, so you can see what a page said before it changed or disappeared, and when. These tools list a URL's captures, find the oldest and newest, recover every path a site once listed in robots.txt, and ask the archive to capture a page now, so your evidence has an independent, dated copy.
With ot, in a sandbox
All URL tools →Windows, macOS and Linux, with Docker or Podman. Each tool runs in a read-only container that can reach only the sites it declares, and every result comes back in the same JSON shape.
osintverse-community/waybackpy
Finds the oldest or newest Wayback Machine capture of a URL, or every archived URL of a site
Takes url → finds url
No key · Python wheel
No key · Python wheel
Verified publisher
osintverse-community/robofinder
Lists every path a site ever put in robots.txt, from the Wayback Machine's historical snapshots
Takes url → finds url
No key · Python wheel
No key · Python wheel
Verified publisher
osintverse-community/savepagenow
Asks the Wayback Machine to capture a web page now and prints the archived copy's address
Takes url → finds url
No key · Python wheel
No key · Python wheel
Verified publisher
ot install osintverse-community/waybackpack osintverse-community/waybackpy osintverse-community/robofinder osintverse-community/savepagenowInstalls the first 4 in one go; ot auto url:… then runs every installed tool that takes an URL and saves the results. No ot yet? Install it in one line.
Without Docker, with otlite
All otlite tools →Linux and macOS. otlite installs each one with pip or git into its own virtualenv, pinned to a version it has tested: otlite install auto-archiver.
The 4 registry tools side by side
| osintverse-community/ | url | None | Online, passive | No | Python | No reports yet | fewer than 10 |
| osintverse-community/ | url | None | Contacts the target | No | Python | No reports yet | fewer than 10 |
| osintverse-community/ | url | None | Online, passive | No | Python | No reports yet | fewer than 10 |
| osintverse-community/ | url | None | Online, passive | No | Python | No reports yet | fewer than 10 |
Facts from each tool's manifest and what people report about whether it works. "Reaches" says whether a run stays offline, reads public sources, sends requests about the target, or may notify them.
How to find and save archived copies of a page
- List the captures of the URL (waybackpack), or jump to the oldest and newest (waybackpy).
- Compare the captures around the date that matters to you to see what changed.
- Capture the page as it is now (savepagenow) and keep the archive's address with your notes.
Every registry tool here runs on your machine in a sandbox, and ot auto url:… runs all the installed ones on one value.
Before you run one
Does saving a page contact the site?
Yes, indirectly: the Wayback Machine fetches the page from its own servers, so the site sees a request from the archive, not from you. Listing existing captures only reads the archive.
Why is a page missing from the archive?
Sites can exclude themselves, pages behind logins or heavy scripts are often captured empty, and some pages were never crawled. Common Crawl and the other archives on the domain page sometimes have what the Wayback Machine lacks.
Do these tools send my search anywhere?
No. ot runs each tool on your own machine in a read-only container that can only reach the sites the tool declares, and results stay in your results folder. The registry only counts installs.
Do I need an API key?
Most tools here work without one; the row says "Key required" when one is needed, and ot keys set stores it in your OS keychain so only that tool's container sees it.
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