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Overview
Start Here
News, Blogs, Forums & Reviews APIs
News Search API
Firehose
Cyber API
Data Breaches API
News, Blogs, Forums & Reviews Archive
Get Started
What Is Archive
Use Cases
Quickstart
Build a Dataset
API Reference
Data Dumps (since 2008)
Web Content API (Deprecated)

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What Is Archive

Archive lets you pull historical open web data that is older than the live feed window. Write a query, choose a date range, and Webz.io builds a dataset of every matching post for you to download.

What you get

  • A dataset of past posts that match your query.
  • Delivered as NDJSON (one JSON object per line), packaged in a ZIP.
  • The same rich fields as live data: full text, title, author, URL, dates, language, site metadata, and entities.

What it covers

Data typeIncluded
NewsYes
BlogsYes
Online discussions (forums)Yes
ReviewsYes

Self-serve Archive covers the last 5 years. For older data, see Data Dumps (since 2008) - news back to 2008, blogs and discussions back to December 2014.

Live vs. Archive

Live feedArchive
Time windowLast 30 daysOlder than 30 days, up to 5 years back
DeliveryInstant API responseOrder a dataset, then download
Best forMonitoring what's happening nowHistory, training data, trend analysis

Archive uses the same query language as the live API, so a query you already run live also works in Archive.

See Use Cases for what teams build, or jump straight to the Quickstart.

Last updated: June 1, 2026
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