wayback-archives

Original：🇺🇸 English

Translated

Recover deleted or historical web content from web archives. Use when a page is deleted or changed, checking what a site used to say, finding old team pages or prices, retrieving archived social posts, or mining the Wayback Machine and archive.today.

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Sourceuseosint/osint-skills

Added on2026-08-02

NPX Install

npx skill4agent add useosint/osint-skills wayback-archives

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Wayback & Web Archives

Deleted content rarely disappears. Archives recover old bios, staff lists, prices, exposed files, and edited claims.

Sources

Wayback Machine (
```
web.archive.org
```
) — the largest; multiple snapshots over time.
archive.today — on-demand snapshots that capture JS-heavy pages and pages Wayback misses; good for social posts and paywalled/edited articles.
Google/Bing cache, and country archives (UK Web Archive, etc.).

Techniques

bash

# Every URL the Wayback CDX API knows for a domain — great for finding
# forgotten paths, PDFs, and admin pages
curl -s 'http://web.archive.org/cdx/search/cdx?url=example.com/*&output=text&fl=original&collapse=urlkey' \
  | sort -u

Compare snapshots across dates to see what changed and when (a scrubbed claim, a removed name, a price hike).
Pull old team/about pages for former staff →
```
person-osint
```
.
Recover deleted social posts by archiving the profile URL, or search archive.today for the handle.
Grep CDX output for
```
.pdf
```
,
```
.xls
```
,
```
.env
```
,
```
/wp-admin
```
and other exposed paths, then check if the file is still live.

Pitfalls

Snapshots are incomplete; absence of a snapshot ≠ the page never existed.
Robots.txt and takedowns can hide snapshots — try archive.today as a fallback.
Preserve evidence: save the archived URL itself (it's a stable citation) plus a local screenshot.