web-archive
Trove / Australian Web Archive (NLA)
The National Library of Australia's web archive. PANDORA, the Australian Government Web Archive, and .au domain crawls combined, holding billions of files and searched through the Trove portal. Captures open as replay links on webarchive.nla.gov.au; the Trove API does not cover archived websites, so searching happens on the site itself. The primary source for the history of Australian websites.
No programmatic check, opens the archive’s own search.
Why it’s useful & how it works
The Australian Web Archive is the primary historical record of Australian websites, combining the longstanding PANDORA selective archive, the Australian Government Web Archive, and broad crawls of the .au domain. You search and discover archived Australian content through the Trove portal at trove.nla.gov.au, and the captured pages themselves open through the National Library's replay viewer at webarchive.nla.gov.au. Because the Trove search API does not expose archived website records, Echo links you directly to the replay address for a given URL so you can view it there.
What’s inside
The combined collection held close to 700 terabytes and over 10 billion files as of 2019, and has continued to grow. The curated PANDORA component alone holds over 1.3 billion files across nearly 80,000 archived titles.
API access
Trove API v3 (key) does NOT expose archived-website records. Replay https://webarchive.nla.gov.au/awa/ <ts>/<url>.
An API key is required (usually free); see the endpoints above for where to get one.
What we measured
Our own probes, not the archive’s own claims. Re-run periodically; every reading below is dated.
Reachability
- Direct request
- Responded HTTP 200 1.5 s
- Through a datacenter proxy
- Unreachable 318 ms (fetch failed: Request was cancelled.)
Reachability measured 2026-08-22.
Access
Catalogue link only, open the archive to search it yourself.