Wayback Machine Newest Capture

About

The wayback-newest skill is a specialized utility for Claude Code that allows users to instantly identify the latest historical snapshot of a webpage. By leveraging the Internet Archive's CDX API with optimized performance parameters, it provides rapid access to the most recent version of content that may have been altered, moved, or deleted. This tool is indispensable for developers performing forensic web analysis, verifying recent site deployments, or recovering content from recently offline resources directly within their terminal environment.

Key Features

• Flexible output formats including compact text, full archive URLs, and JSON
• Instant retrieval of the most recent Wayback Machine snapshot
• 2 GitHub stars
• Direct terminal integration with no-cache overrides for fresh data
• Optimized CDX API integration using fastLatest for high-speed lookups
• Built-in 1-hour caching mechanism for efficient repeated queries

Use Cases

• Recovering the most recent content from a website that recently went offline.
• Comparing a live site with its most recent historical version to track changes.
• Verifying the exact timestamp of the last successful archival index for a specific URL.