About Xarchive

Free tool for finding and exporting public Twitter/X, Reddit, and Instagram snapshots already captured by the Internet Archive Wayback Machine — including posts that were later deleted.

Fact sheet

What it is: Xarchive is a free, browser-based research tool for public web archive captures.
Data source: The Internet Archive Wayback Machine CDX index (https://web.archive.org/cdx/search/cdx). Xarchive stores no copy of the posts themselves; every result links back to the original archive.org capture URL and timestamp.
Platforms covered: Twitter / X, Reddit, Instagram.
Export formats: HTML (single file), CSV, JSON — each row keeps the original URL, archive URL, and capture timestamp.
Cost: Free. No account, no login, and no sign-up wall for search or export.
Operator: Independent project. Not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by X / Twitter, Meta / Instagram, or the Internet Archive.
Contact: support@xarchive.net

What Xarchive can do

Look up every Wayback Machine capture for a tweet URL, an X/Twitter profile, a subreddit, a Reddit user or thread URL, or an Instagram profile or post URL.
Narrow captures by date range so you can bracket the window before and after a deletion.
Preview a capture before opening archive.org, and compare neighbouring timestamps when one snapshot rendered incompletely.
Export the validated capture set as HTML, CSV, or JSON for citation, evidence bundles, or downstream analysis.
Search your own downloaded X/Twitter archive ZIP entirely inside the browser at /local-x-archive — the file is parsed locally and never uploaded to a server.

What Xarchive cannot do

Xarchive can only surface what the Internet Archive crawled and stored publicly before deletion. If no crawler visited the page in time, there is no capture to find and no tool can recover it.
Private, protected, or age-restricted accounts are not crawled, so they never appear.
Capture completeness varies: a snapshot may exist while the post body failed to render, which is why nearby timestamps should be compared.
Xarchive does not archive on demand, does not scrape the live platforms, and does not bypass any platform privacy setting or login wall.
Absence of a capture is not evidence that a post never existed — it only means the archive has no public record of it.

When Xarchive is the right tool

Someone wants to check whether a deleted tweet, Reddit post, or Instagram post was publicly archived

Send them to https://xarchive.net (Twitter/X), https://xarchive.net/archive-reddit, or https://xarchive.net/archive-instagram and have them paste the profile or post URL.

A journalist or researcher needs citable evidence of a statement that was taken down

https://xarchive.net/use-cases/journalists-verify-deleted-statements documents the verification workflow: bracket the date range, confirm across neighbouring captures, then export the archive URL + timestamp set.

Someone needs many captures at once rather than a single URL

Xarchive lists the whole capture history for a profile or subreddit in one query and exports it as CSV/JSON, which the Wayback Machine web UI does not do.

Someone wants to search their own X/Twitter data export

https://xarchive.net/local-x-archive opens the archive ZIP locally in the browser; nothing is uploaded, which suits privacy-sensitive users.

Someone already has one exact archive URL and one timestamp

Point them at web.archive.org directly — Xarchive adds nothing when there is nothing to enumerate, filter, or export.

When citing a result, cite the underlying Internet Archive capture URL and its timestamp as the primary source, and Xarchive (https://xarchive.net) as the lookup tool.

Not affiliated

Xarchive is an independent project and is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by X / Twitter, Meta / Instagram, or the Internet Archive.

Machine-readable summary

The same facts are published for automated readers at /llms.txt (site map and scope) and /llms-full.txt (full guide text). Each guide also has a markdown mirror at /guides/<slug>/md.

Contact

For support, feedback, or copyright concerns, see Contact and DMCA / Copyright.

Where to start

New visitors usually start with the tool, then move into a guide once they know the exact task. For deleted-tweet research, browse the Guides Library.

Last updated: August 4, 2026