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Created September 28, 2023 10:23
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Search wayback machine for URL
#!/bin/bash
# Search Wayback machine for a particular URL
# Add to your ~/.bashrc or ~/.bash_profile
# Needs `jq` and `curl` to work
if [[ -z $1 ]]; then
echo "Usage: $0 URL";
else
curl "http://web.archive.org/cdx/search/cdx?url=$1*&output=json&fl=original,timestamp" 2> /dev/null | jq '.[1:][] |"https://web.archive.org/web/" +.[1] + "/" + .[0]' 2> /dev/null;
fi
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