Wayback Machine MCP Server

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Wayback Machine is answering right now. Last checked 10 min ago. It exposes 2 tools. Last commit 3 Sep 2026.

Wayback Machine for agents: closest archived copy of a URL with its text, and full capture history

Uptime history 9 days of history

9 days agonow

100.0%

Uptime 24h

92 of 92 checks

Tools

read from the server

474 ms

Response time

average over 24h

Stars

last commit 3 Sep 2026

Nothing serious here today

Today is the operative word: we check Wayback Machine every 15 minutes and re-read its code on every release. Watch it and you find out the day that stops being true.

Connect this server

Endpoint below is the one we actually reach during checks — not the one copied from a README. Last verified 10 min ago.

Claude Code Claude Desktop Codex Cursor VS Code

run in your terminal

claude mcp add wayback-machine --transport http https://waybackmcp.com/mcp

~/Library/Application Support/Claude/claude_desktop_config.json

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "wayback-machine": {
      "url": "https://waybackmcp.com/mcp"
    }
  }
}

~/.codex/config.toml

[mcp_servers.wayback-machine]
url = "https://waybackmcp.com/mcp"

.cursor/mcp.json

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "wayback-machine": {
      "url": "https://waybackmcp.com/mcp"
    }
  }
}

.vscode/mcp.json

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "wayback-machine": {
      "url": "https://waybackmcp.com/mcp"
    }
  }
}

Available tools 2

Read directly from the server with tools/list, grouped by what they act on. If a tool disappears, we record the date.

archived

archived_copy

Closest archived copy of a URL from the Wayback Machine (Internet Archive), nearest to a date if given. Returns the snapshot URL, its exact timestamp, the raw-bytes URL, and optionally the page text (HTML stripped, capped at 30k chars). Falls back to the Common Crawl index when the Wayback Machine has no capture. Use when a page is dead, changed, or walled and you need what it said.

capture

capture_history

Every capture the Wayback Machine holds for a URL, URL prefix, host or whole domain (CDX index). Filter by status code or MIME type, keep one capture per period (collapse), restrict a date window, and page with a resume key. Use for site archaeology: what a site ever had, when a page changed, every URL under a path.

Endpoints

URL	Transport	State	Latency	Checked
https://waybackmcp.com/mcp	streamable-http	answering	469 ms	10 min ago

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Wayback Machine — questions

Answers built from our own checks of this server.

What can Wayback Machine do?

It exposes 2 tools, read directly from the server on our last check. Among them: archived_copy, capture_history. The full list with descriptions is on this page — we take it from the server itself via tools/list, not from a README. How MCP servers expose tools in the first place →

Is Wayback Machine working right now?

We send a real MCP handshake every 15 minutes. Over the last 24 hours 92 of 92 checks got a reply (100.0%), average response time 474 ms. The bar chart above shows every period we have measured.

How do I connect Wayback Machine?

Copy the ready config from this page — we generate it for Claude Code, Claude Desktop, Codex, Cursor and VS Code, each with the file path that client actually reads. It is a remote server, so there is nothing to install — the client connects to the address.

Does Wayback Machine need an API key?

No. Wayback Machine completed a full MCP handshake with us as an anonymous client and listed its tools without asking for anything. All 2 of them are readable on this page. This is what we observed, not what the docs claim.

How fast is Wayback Machine?

It answers our handshake in 474 ms on average, which is faster than 34% of all working MCP servers we measure. The comparison comes from our own checks across the whole registry, every 15 minutes.

Is Wayback Machine open source?

Yes — it is published under the MIT licence, written in TypeScript and 0 stars on GitHub. The source link is on this page, so you can read exactly what it does with your data before you connect it.