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Queries the Internet Archive availability API ( http://archive.org/wayback/available) for the closest archived snapshot of url and returns a directly-downloadable snapshot URL, or NULL if no snapshot exists or the lookup fails. This is the shared fetch failsafe the wider morie package family relies on: callers attempt the live source first and fall back to this snapshot when the source is unreachable.

Usage

wayback_snapshot_url(url, timestamp = NULL)

Arguments

url

The original source URL to look up.

timestamp

Optional 14-digit YYYYMMDDhhmmss target; the API returns the snapshot closest to it. Defaults to the most recent.

Value

A character scalar snapshot URL, or NULL.

Examples

# \donttest{
wayback_snapshot_url("https://www.r-project.org/")
#> [1] "https://web.archive.org/web/20260911112635/https://www.r-project.org/"
# }