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- Free allowance
- Keyless listing, closest and replay of existing captures; Save Page Now needs keys
- Verdict
- ★ qualifiesusable as stated; the read path was probed
- Cost
- free tier
- Identity
- anonymousno card, no phone
- Binding limit
- per-object-capa listing pages by a CDX resume key; a page that holds limit captures names a cursor for the next
- Evidence
- measured3 sources; a live request was made and its output kept
- Freshness
- stale on 2026-12-22checked 2026-10-22 (live); stale on 2026-12-22
| Free tier | keyless listing, closest and replay of existing captures; Save Page Now needs keys unit requests; metered on request-count |
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| Price | none stated |
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| Limits | - request-rate Save Page Now is held after 5 saves of one URL a day on this deployment; the listing and replay are keyless
- per-object-cap (binding) a listing pages by a CDX resume key; a page that holds limit captures names a cursor for the next
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| Identity | anonymous listing, closest and replay need nothing; Save Page Now needs Internet Archive API keys |
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| Egress | served; a direct replay of a large object is not measured here |
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| Per-object cap | not applicable: the unit is a capture |
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| Retention | captures are held indefinitely; a listing row's record_length is the compressed WARC size, not the body |
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| Interface | rest CDX server, Availability API and raw replay with an id_ suffix |
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| Tooling | not stated |
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| Composes with | Rung four of the escalation ladder; the copy that survives the origin changing, as hostloc.com did |
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| Notes | The single most useful service in this topic and the only one that answered within 4 s on every call. A short at= is the start of its period, so at=2024-06 asks 20240601000000. |
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| Parsed numbers | |
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Evidence 3
| date | source | what it proved |
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| 2026-10-22 | web.archive.org/web/202406/hostloc.com/forum.php | 200 in 3.2 s; capture 20240530023233, status 200, mimetype text/html, record_length 7402, compared[] names a distance of 163647 s |
| 2026-10-22 | web.archive.org/web/20240530023233/https://hostloc.com/forum | 200, 26,000 bytes, x-web-origin-status 200, x-web-body archived: a 2024 copy of a forum that no longer serves its forums |
| 2026-10-22 | web.archive.org/web/*/example.com | 3 captures then 3 more by next, no timestamp repeated, more true on both pages |
Unknown values 1
- tooling: a source was read and is silent on this field