---
title: "Find an archived copy of a dead page from an AI agent – superbot.gg"
canonical_url: "https://superbot.gg/use-cases/find-an-archived-copy-of-a-dead-page"
summary: "Ask your agent for the archived captures of a page that has gone away. It returns the capture dates with a link to each copy."
---

> Markdown of https://superbot.gg/use-cases/find-an-archived-copy-of-a-dead-page. Site index: /llms.txt.

# Find an archived copy of a dead page

Give your agent a page that has gone away.
It lists the archived captures of it.

[Get the app](https://superbot.gg/download?cta%5Fid=page%5Finstall) [see the real call](https://superbot.gg/use-cases/find-an-archived-copy-of-a-dead-page#call)

## What you get

- The archived captures of a page that has gone away.
- The date of each capture, with a link to the archived copy.
- One capture per day, when you ask for it that way.

## Ask your agent

Connect superbot once.
Other clients are on [the install page](https://superbot.gg/add).

```sh
claude mcp add --transport http superbot https://api.superbot.gg/mcp -s user
```

With no browser, post to the install route instead.

```sh
curl -fsS -X POST https://api.superbot.gg/mcp/install -d client=claude-code
```

Then ask in plain words.

```
superbot({"intent": "List the first five archived capture dates of http://www.geocities.com/, one capture per day, each with its replay link."})
```

This needs an account.
An agent with none signs you in through [/auth.md](https://superbot.gg/auth.md).
You read back one emailed code.

## One real call

A real call, run on 2026-10-18 from a test account.
The reply is the agent's own, with its heading cut.

call

```
superbot({"intent": "GeoCities, the web host that shut down in 2009, left its home page behind. List the first five archived capture dates of http://www.geocities.com/, one capture per day, each with its replay link. Use a single archive index lookup. Answer as five plain lines, a date and then the link, with no other commentary."})
```

reply

```
1996-10-22 https://web.archive.org/web/19961022173245/http://www.geocities.com/
1996-10-25 https://web.archive.org/web/19961025110134/http://www.geocities.com/
1996-12-19 https://web.archive.org/web/19961219233429/http://www.geocities.com/
1996-12-20 https://web.archive.org/web/19961220165813/http://www.geocities.com/
1996-12-21 https://web.archive.org/web/19961221063810/http://www4.geocities.com/
```

The captures of a dead page, run live. The links are written out as plain text.

## Limits

Pages

Public pages that the archive captured. A page it never captured has nothing to list.

Index

The list comes from the Wayback index, which can be slow or rate limited. Ask for one URL and a few captures at a time.

Needs

A superbot account.

## Related

- [Read a web page as clean text](https://superbot.gg/use-cases/read-a-web-page-as-clean-text)
- [Fetch a page that needs JavaScript](https://superbot.gg/use-cases/read-a-page-that-needs-javascript)
- [Crawl a site and list its URLs](https://superbot.gg/use-cases/crawl-a-site-and-list-its-urls)
- [All use cases](https://superbot.gg/use-cases)

The page asked about is the old GeoCities home page. Read on 2026-10-18.