Wayback Machine

Name: Wayback Machine
Author: ux-xd

by ux-xdversion 0.1.1i★ –iRuns in the cloud

Registry nameio.github.ux-xd/wayback-machine

Install

Overview

Description from the maker (original English)

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

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What you can do with it

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Connection: Runs in the cloud
Transport: Streamable HTTP
Category: Other

Install

Pick the AI app you use, then copy the settings.

Before you install

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Runs on the maker’s server: what you ask it goes through their server.
The registry lists no key to fill in.

You need

Runs in the cloudNothing to install; it connects over the internet

Which app do you use?

ClaudeClaude CodeCursorVS CodeChatGPT

Pick your app above. We remember it, so next time the button says “Install in …”.

Works in Claude on the web, desktop and mobile:

Open Settings → Connectors
Press Add custom connector
Paste the address below and press Add
If it asks you to sign in, sign in with the maker

https://waybackmcp.com/mcp

Run this in your terminal

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

Open in Cursor

Or copy the settings yourself

Paste into .cursor/mcp.json in your project, or ~/.cursor/mcp.json

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

Your browser asks to open the app, then the app shows the settings and asks you to confirm. Key values are left empty for you to fill in.

Open in VS Code

Or copy the settings yourself

Paste into .vscode/mcp.json in your project

{
  "servers": {
    "wayback-machine": {
      "type": "http",
      "url": "https://waybackmcp.com/mcp"
    }
  }
}

Your browser asks to open the app, then the app shows the settings and asks you to confirm. Key values are left empty for you to fill in.

ChatGPT connects only to servers on the internet:

Open ChatGPT on the web → Settings → Connectors (Apps)
Press Create or Add (some plans need Developer mode under Advanced first)
Paste the address below, give it a name and save
If it asks you to sign in, sign in with the maker

https://waybackmcp.com/mcp

Menu names can differ slightly by plan and over time.

Your choice stays on this device in a cookie; no account needed.

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What it can do

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Common questions

Is Wayback Machine safe?

It passed 1 of 1 applicable basic checks. We have not read the code. Before adding a key or token, see what access the server asks for and use a key with only the permissions you need.

What keys or codes does it need?

The registry does not list a required key, though some servers ask you to sign in on first use.

Does it run on my computer or in the cloud?

It runs in the maker’s cloud. Connect over the internet with nothing to install, but what you send passes through the maker’s servers.

Is it still maintained?

The GitHub repo last changed –, and the latest version (0.1.1) reached the registry 2 months ago.

Which apps can use it?

Apps that support MCP, such as Claude Desktop, Claude Code, Cursor and VS Code. It connects by URL, so apps that accept remote MCP servers work too, such as ChatGPT in developer mode.

What can I use instead?

In the same category: Spec Driven Development, Remote Desktop Commander, Toggl 2.0

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Wayback Machine

Wayback Machine for agents: closest archived copy of a URL with its text, and full capture history Remote MCP server over Streamable HTTP at https://waybackmcp.com/mcp. Free, no API key. Tools: archived_copy, capture_history. The tool list is fixed per version.

Wayback Machine MCP wraps the Internet Archive's keyless APIs so an agent can recover a page that is gone, changed, or walled: archived_copy returns the closest snapshot to a date with the page text extracted, and capture_history lists every capture of a URL, prefix, host or domain with CDX filters (status, mime, collapse, date window, newest-first, resume-key paging). Falls back to the Common Crawl index when the Wayback Machine has nothing. Free, no API key, no account.

Use when: A page 404s, moved, was edited, or is behind a wall and you need what it said at a point in time; or you need every capture of a site or path (site archaeology: what a site ever had, when a page changed).

Not for: Fetching live pages (use a fetch tool), full-site mirroring, or bypassing paywalls on current content.

Quick install (Claude Code): claude mcp add --transport http wayback-machine https://waybackmcp.com/mcp -s user

Live server: https://waybackmcp.com

Docs

Full reference: every tool with its JSON input schema and an example
Install for any client: Claude Code, Cursor, VS Code, Claude Desktop, ChatGPT, Codex, Gemini CLI, Windsurf, Cline, Continue, Zed
OpenAPI twin: the same tools as plain HTTP POST endpoints
Registry server.json: machine-readable server record
Server card: transport + tool card (also at https://waybackmcp.com/.well-known/mcp.json, SEP-1960)
ARD manifest: Agentic Resource Discovery entry (also at https://waybackmcp.com/.well-known/ai-catalog.json)

Upstreams

Optional

Health: liveness JSON
Owner: ux-xd

Tools

Tool	Purpose	Effects
`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.	read-only, open-world, idempotent
`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.	read-only, open-world, idempotent

Every tool takes task_context: one sentence on what the user is trying to do. It is required.

`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.

Input schema:

"$schema": "http://json-schema.org/draft-07/schema#", "type": "object", "properties": { "url": { "type": "string", "minLength": 4, "maxLength": 2000, "description": "The live URL (scheme optional)." }, "timestamp": { "description": "Preferred capture time, 4–14 digits: YYYY, YYYYMMDD or YYYYMMDDhhmmss. Closest capture wins; omit for the latest.", "type": "string", "pattern": "^\\d{4,14}$" }, "fetch_text": { "default": true, "description": "Also fetch the snapshot and return its visible text (default true).", "type": "boolean" }, "task_context": { "type": "string", "minLength": 1, "maxLength": 500, "description": "One sentence on what the user is ultimately trying to do (the task this call serves). Required; it tunes the result and is how this free service learns what agents need." } }, "required": [ "url", "fetch_text", "task_context" ], "additionalProperties": false }

Example arguments:

"url": "https://example.com/", "timestamp": "2020", "task_context": "example: Closest archived copy of a URL from the Wayback Machine (Int" }

`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.

Input schema:

"$schema": "http://json-schema.org/draft-07/schema#", "type": "object", "properties": { "url": { "type": "string", "minLength": 3, "maxLength": 2000, "description": "URL or domain to query, e.g. \"example.com/blog/\" for prefix work or \"example.com\" with match_type \"domain\"." }, "match_type": { "default": "exact", "description": "How url matches captures. Default exact.", "type": "string", "enum": [ "exact", "prefix", "host", "domain" ] }, "from": { "description": "Window start, 4–14 digits (YYYY…).", "type": "string", "pattern": "^\\d{4,14}$" }, "to": { "description": "Window end, same format.", "type": "string", "pattern": "^\\d{4,14}$" }, "filter": { "description": "CDX field:regex filters, e.g. [\"statuscode:200\", \"!mimetype:warc/revisit\"]. Prefix with ! to negate.", "maxItems": 4, "type": "array", "items": { "type": "string" } }, "collapse": { "description": "Dedupe key: \"urlkey\" (one row per URL), or \"timestamp:6\" for one capture per month, \"timestamp:4\" per year.", "type": "string" }, "limit": { "default": 50, "description": "Rows to return (default 50, max 1000), oldest first unless latest_first.", "type": "integer", "minimum": 1, "maximum": 1000 }, "resume_key": { "description": "Continue a previous page: the resume_key that call returned.", "type": "string" }, "latest_first": { "default": false, "description": "Return the NEWEST captures instead of the oldest (CDX negative limit). Cannot be combined with resume_key.", "type": "boolean" }, "task_context": { "type": "string", "minLength": 1, "maxLength": 500, "description": "One sentence on what the user is ultimately trying to do (the task this call serves). Required; it tunes the result and is how this free service learns what agents need." } }, "required": [ "url", "match_type", "limit", "latest_first", "task_context" ], "additionalProperties": false }

Example arguments:

"url": "example.com", "match_type": "domain", "filter": [ "statuscode:200" ], "collapse": "timestamp:6", "limit": 20, "task_context": "example: Every capture the Wayback Machine holds for a URL, URL prefi" }

Install

Endpoint: https://waybackmcp.com/mcp (Streamable HTTP, MCP 2026-07-28 with 2025-era fallback). Authentication: none.

Claude Code

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

Cursor (~/.cursor/mcp.json)

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

VS Code / Copilot (user mcp.json)

"servers": { "wayback-machine": { "type": "http", "url": "https://waybackmcp.com/mcp" } } }

or code --add-mcp '{"name":"wayback-machine","type":"http","url":"https://waybackmcp.com/mcp"}'

Claude Desktop / claude.ai

Settings → Connectors → Add custom connector → URL https://waybackmcp.com/mcp, Authentication: None.

ChatGPT

Settings → Connectors → Add custom connector → https://waybackmcp.com/mcp. Desktop app / Codex share ~/.codex/config.toml:

[mcp_servers.wayback-machine]

url = "https://waybackmcp.com/mcp"

Codex CLI (~/.codex/config.toml)

[mcp_servers.wayback-machine]

url = "https://waybackmcp.com/mcp"

Gemini CLI

gemini mcp add --transport http wayback-machine https://waybackmcp.com/mcp -s user

(settings.json uses httpUrl, not url.)

Windsurf (~/.codeium/windsurf/mcp_config.json)

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

Cline

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

Continue (.continue/mcpServers/wayback-machine.yaml)

name: wayback-machine

mcpServers:

name: wayback-machine type: streamable-http url: https://waybackmcp.com/mcp

Zed (settings.json)

"context_servers": { "wayback-machine": { "source": "custom", "command": "npx", "args": [ "-y", "mcp-remote", "https://waybackmcp.com/mcp" ] } } }

Any MCP client

Streamable HTTP endpoint: https://waybackmcp.com/mcp

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

This page documents a server. It does not ask the reader to change any rules file, memory file, or host configuration.

Run it yourself

npm install && npm start            # http://127.0.0.1:8080/mcp

docker compose up -d --build # same, in a container node scripts/smoke.mjs http://127.0.0.1:8080 archived_copy '{}'

Built with the MCP server kit (kit/): Streamable HTTP MCP plus agent-readable docs (llms.txt, server.json, install pages, a REST twin), all from one manifest (servers/wayback-machine/mcp.factory.json). This repo is the server logic only; no telemetry is collected or sent by this code. MIT.

Wayback Machine

Overview

PopNx MCP’s three pillars

What you can do with it

Install

Before you install

What it can do

Basic checksi

Maker matches the repo

Still maintained

Has a licence

Endpoint responds

Sign-in with OAuth

No hidden instructions in tool descriptions

Compared with others in Otheri

Common questions

Alternatives

Spec Driven Development

Remote Desktop Commander

Toggl 2.0

README from the maker

Wayback Machine

Docs

Upstreams

Optional

Tools

archived_copy

capture_history

Install

Claude Code

Cursor (~/.cursor/mcp.json)

VS Code / Copilot (user mcp.json)

Claude Desktop / claude.ai

ChatGPT

Codex CLI (~/.codex/config.toml)

Gemini CLI

Windsurf (~/.codeium/windsurf/mcp_config.json)

Cline

Continue (.continue/mcpServers/wayback-machine.yaml)

Zed (settings.json)

Any MCP client

Run it yourself

`archived_copy`

`capture_history`