# dessant/web-archives

Browser extension for viewing archived and cached versions of web pages, available for Chrome, Edge and Safari

Repository: https://github.com/dessant/web-archives
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/web-archives
Homepage: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/web-archives-for-safari/id1603181853
Language: JavaScript
License: GPL-3.0
License Family: copyleft
Topics: browser-extension, archive, cache, google, yandex, wayback-machine, chrome-extension, firefox-extension, safari-extension
Last push: 2026-06-27T14:03:55+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 87/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-02T17:46:02.011165+00:00)
- activity 89, release rhythm 78, longevity 100
- inputs: {"age_days": 3318, "days_push": 67, "days_rel": 67, "gap_med": 54, "n_releases_24m": 10}
- flags: none
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 1585, forks 123 (observed 2026-08-28T04:05:07.505396+00:00)

## What it is
Web Archives is an open-source browser extension for finding archived and cached versions of web pages across multiple search engines like the Wayback Machine, Archive.is, and Google cache. It supports searching from the context menu or toolbar and is available for Chrome, Firefox, Edge, Opera, and Safari.

## Use cases
- view an archived version of a web page via the Wayback Machine
- open Google's cached copy of a page
- right-click a link to search its archives without visiting it
- check whether a deleted page still exists in web archives
- compare cached versions of a page across multiple archive services
- research historical versions of a URL for SEO analysis

## When to avoid
- you need programmatic or bulk archive access rather than a browser UI
- you want to archive pages yourself rather than search existing archives
- you need a headless or API-based archive lookup tool

## Facets
- artifact type: plugin
- maturity: active
- function: search-engine, developer-tools, browser-extension
- domain: browser-extensions, web-development, developer-tools
- platform: browser, browser-extension, cross-platform
- tags: wayback-machine, web-archives, page-cache, context-menu, chrome-extension, firefox-extension, safari-extension, edge-extension, opera-extension, archive-is, google-cache, search, macos

## Member repositories
- dessant/web-archives (main) score 87

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:05:07.505396+00:00.
- Health v2: computed from the inputs above; adoption is never an input.
- Inferred fields (summary, facets, guidance): AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, on 2026-08-30T03:55:31.901952+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/dessant/web-archives (fetched 2026-08-28T04:05:07.505396+00:00, sha dc64de9f819f)
  - homepage: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/web-archives-for-safari/id1603181853 (fetched 2026-08-29T11:26:20.034357+00:00, sha 2e45fa43023a)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.