Name: archive-url
Price: 0.02 USDC
Availability: InStock

$ man archive-url

agentutility / web-probe / archive-url

PRICE / CALL

$0.02

USDC · base mainnet · scheme: exact

METHOD

POST

CLUSTER

webprobe

CATEGORY

uncategorized

STATUS

● live

NAME

archive-url — looks up the archived copy of a public url closest to a given timestamp and can fetch cleaned archived page text

synonym alias of archive-snapshot — reuses the canonical handler.

SYNOPSIS

POST https://x402.agentutility.ai/archive-url
     Content-Type: application/json
     X-PAYMENT:    <signed-transferWithAuthorization>

     { ... }

↳ first call → 402 Payment Required. Sign USDCtransferWithAuthorization, retry with theX-PAYMENT header.

DESCRIPTION

Looks up the archived copy of a public URL closest to a given timestamp and can fetch cleaned archived page text. Useful for citation repair, provenance checks, and reference rot fixes. Use it as an archive snapshot finder, web archive URL builder, or Wayback Machine snapshot API.

INPUT — request schema

property	type	description	req?
url	string	—	required
timestamp	string	—	optional
fetch_text	boolean	—	optional

OUTPUT — response shape

field	type	description
snapshot_url	string	—
snapshot_iso_timestamp	string	—

EXAMPLES — two ways to call

EXAMPLE 1 · curl

curl -X POST https://x402.agentutility.ai/archive-url \
  -H 'Content-Type: application/json' \
  -d '{ }'

first response = 402 Payment Required with payment requirements; sign + retry with X-PAYMENT.

EXAMPLE 2 · mcp

# Install the MCP package for this endpoint's cluster
npx -y @agentutility/mcp-<cluster>

# Required: EVM private key with USDC on Base
export X402_PRIVATE_KEY=0x...

# Then call the archive-url tool from your MCP-aware agent.

MCP server handles payment automatically — your coding agent just calls the tool by name.

METADATA

tags: web-probearchiveurlarchive-url
methods: POST
cluster: webprobe
price: $0.02 USDC per call

ADJACENT — other endpoints in webprobe

endpoint	description	price
archive-snapshot	Finds the closest archived snapshot of a public URL, like a Wayback Machine API.	$0.02
archive-snapshot-api	Finds archived snapshots of public web pages, returning the closest Wayback Machine captures with timestamps, status codes, and replay URLs.	$0.02
brand-domain-check	Checks whether a brand or company domain is established, expiring, registrar-locked, or newly registered, on the same RDAP backend as who…	$0.02
brand-watch-domain-risk	Checks new or suspicious brand-adjacent domains for age, registrar, expiry, DNSSEC, and transfer/lock statuses.	$0.02
creator-domain-check	Checks creator, newsletter, podcast, and community domains for age, expiry, registrar, DNSSEC, and suspicious new-registration flags.	$0.02
dmarc-check	Audits a domain's email authentication posture: DMARC, SPF, and DKIM in one check.	$0.02
dns-lookup	Full DNS lookup over Cloudflare 1.1.1.1 DNS-over-HTTPS.	$0.02
domain-age-check	Checks a domain's age and registration date, with registrar metadata, for fraud, phishing, brand-protection, and lead-enrichment workflows.	$0.02