Internet Archive APIs useful as fallback?

[swedebugia]

Hi

I stumbled over these at clintons blog and thought I would share them 
here if anybody is interested.

APIs for content other that way-back machine:
https://blog.archive.org/2018/12/13/documentation-for-public-apis-at-the-internet-archive/

APIs for the way-back machine:
https://archive.org/help/wayback_api.php

excerp:
Wayback Availability JSON API

This simple API for Wayback is a test to see if a given url is archived 
and currenlty accessible in the Wayback Machine. This API is useful for 
providing a 404 or other error handler which checks Wayback to see if it 
has an archived copy ready to display. The API can be used as follows:
http://archive.org/wayback/available?url=example.com

which might return:

{
    "archived_snapshots": {
        "closest": {
            "available": true,
            "url": 
"http://web.archive.org/web/20130919044612/http://example.com/";,
            "timestamp": "20130919044612",
            "status": "200"
        }
    }
}


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Cheers Swedebugia