Wayback Machine CDX API Crawling

Critical: WebFetch Is Blocked for web.archive.org

WebFetch returns "Claude Code is unable to fetch from web.archive.org".

Always use curl via the Bash tool instead:

# This FAILS:
# WebFetch(url="https://web.archive.org/cdx/search/cdx?...", ...)

# This WORKS:
curl -s "https://web.archive.org/cdx/search/cdx?url=example.com/*&output=text&fl=timestamp,original,statuscode&limit=500"

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