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Plug: I made <https://waybackinator.com/>. You can just append a URL to the URL path to get a link to the most recent archive snapshot, if there is one. It uses the wayback machine's API.

Example:

1. https://www.newscientist.com/article/2445967-astronomers-puz...

2. https://waybackinator.com/https://www.newscientist.com/artic...

3. "That URL is not available via the internet archive API."

Oh well.

If it's just for The Wayback Machine, you can prepend https://web.archive.org/web/ to the URL; no need for the waybackinator indirection.

I've made a bookmark of the URL https://web.archive.org/web/%s in Firefox, and assigned the "wm" keyword to it, so I only have to prepend that.

LPT: you can right click on any search box and select "Set a keyword to this search" (or whatever it is exactly in English).

Archive.today is the master domain which should redirect to the best one for one's location:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Archive.today

How does that work?