Technical description
Memento is defined in RFC 7089 as an implementation of the time dimension of content negotiation. HTTP accomplishes negotiation of content via a variety of headers that allow clients and servers to find content that the user desires. The header provided by HTTP does not necessarily reflect when a particular version of a web page came into existence. Also, the header may not exist in some cases. To provide more information, the header has been introduced to indicate when a specific representation of a web page was observed on the web.Usage
Copies of page can be found by simply navigating, in a web browser, to a link formatted, replacing ''urltoarchive
'' with the full URL of the page desired:{{cite web, url=http://timetravel.mementoweb.org/guide/api/, title=Time Travel APIs, website=timetravel.mementoweb.org, access-date=2018-05-15, archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180521224610/http://timetravel.mementoweb.org/guide/api/, archive-date=2018-05-21, url-status=live
JSON description of a Memento:
: http://timetravel.mementoweb.org/api/json/YYYY/ ''urltoarchive''
: http://timetravel.mementoweb.org/api/json/YYYYMM/ ''urltoarchive''
: http://timetravel.mementoweb.org/api/json/YYYYMMDD/ ''urltoarchive''
: http://timetravel.mementoweb.org/api/json/YYYYMMDDHH/ ''urltoarchive''
: http://timetravel.mementoweb.org/api/json/YYYYMMDDHHMM/ ''urltoarchive''
::or
redirect to a Memento with a datetime that is close to a desired datetime:
: http://timetravel.mementoweb.org/memento/YYYY/ ''urltoarchive''
: http://timetravel.mementoweb.org/memento/YYYYMM/ ''urltoarchive''
: http://timetravel.mementoweb.org/memento/YYYYMMDD/ ''urltoarchive''
: http://timetravel.mementoweb.org/memento/YYYYMMDDHH/ ''urltoarchive''
: http://timetravel.mementoweb.org/memento/YYYYMMDDHHMM/ ''urltoarchive''
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