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Chrome Wayback Machine search engine/bookmarklet. Accepts full URLs and works on Chrome's New Page window.
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Quickly look up a URL in the Wayback Machine in Chrome.

Add the below snippet as a search engine in Chrome. Then just type keyword you choose, press TAB, and paste in a URL.

data:text/html,<script>location.href='https://web.archive.org/web/*/%s'</script>

Key differences between this and the more obvious method:

  • Works if you paste a full URL including https://.... Otherwise this is incorrectly escaped
  • Works on the Chrome New Tab page. Uses the trick mentioned here to create a new origin so that injected JS is allowed.

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Quickly look up a URL in the Wayback Machine in Chrome
data:text/html,<script>location.href='https://web.archive.org/web/*/%s'</script>
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