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The Internet Archive is over 116 million items and growing by thousands every day. It is trying to be everything to everyone: A music player, a movie view, a game emulator, a book reader, …

To search for websites on the Wayback Machine, enter the specific URL of the website into the search bar and select Search archived websites in the drop-down. Alternatively, click on the …

To search for a publish date range using [ ] and Boolean operators: For example, I would like to find all the works by Shakespeare that fall within a certain date range.

This video includes in-depth explanations about how to perform powerful, complex search queries on archive.org using boolean operators and fielded search.

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Here, you will find an explanation on how the syntax to the search engine works. Our site uses a query syntax like the lucene query syntax from the Apache Lucene opensource search engine.

This returns a specific document whose URL matches the target URL and whose archive date most closely matches the date specified in the format YYYYMMDDhhmmss.

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