# 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 type | Included |
| --- | --- |
| News | Yes |
| Blogs | Yes |
| Online discussions (forums) | Yes |
| Reviews | Yes |

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

## Live vs. Archive

| | Live feed | Archive |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Time window | Last 30 days | Older than 30 days, up to 5 years back |
| Delivery | Instant API response | Order a dataset, then download |
| Best for | Monitoring what's happening now | History, training data, trend analysis |

> [!NOTE]
> Archive uses the same query language as the live API, so a query you already run live also works in Archive.

See [Use Cases](archive-use-cases) for what teams build, or jump straight to the [Quickstart](archive-quickstart).