A client sends an HTTP request indicating an interest in a specific date using the Accept-Datetime header.
The index is typically served in the application/link-format (defined in RFC 5988), which uses a standardized syntax for web linking. Link Relation ( rel ) Description original Points to the live version of the resource. timegate Points to the resource's TimeGate. memento Points to a specific archived version. timemap Points to the index itself or a related TimeMap. first memento Identifies the earliest available snapshot. last memento Identifies the most recent available snapshot. Practical Applications of Memento Indices Memento: Time Travel for the Web - News Archive index of memento link
The actual "Index of Links" that lists all URIs for Mementos of a specific Original Resource. A client sends an HTTP request indicating an
Start today. Pick a dead link you remember from five years ago. Run it through timetravel.mementoweb.org . If an index has it, you’ll be looking at history in seconds. timegate Points to the resource's TimeGate
import requests import json