Looks up past versions of a page in the Wayback Machine, lists the prices written in each one and shows when they changed. For founders who want to see how a competitor's pricing moved over time. It reads a small sample of the archive's captures, so it shows the direction of a change, not every edit.
How to use it
Enter the address of a pricing page. The exact address matters: the archive looks up captures of that address only.
- Type or paste the address of the pricing page and press Look up.
- Read the list of changes first: which prices were added or removed, and between which dates.
- Open a snapshot to see the page as the archive captured it.
- Copy the timeline or download it as a CSV to compare with your own pricing.
How Reavlo tests this
This tool runs on our server, because a browser cannot read the Wayback Machine for you. Nothing about the request is stored or logged: not the address, not the snapshots.
Source. The Wayback Machine CDX server, a public service that needs no key. The tool asks it for the captures of the exact address that returned a normal page, keeping one capture per distinct version of the content. The address of the service is fixed in the tool: it is never taken from your input.
Sampling. The archive can hold hundreds of versions. The tool reads at most 8 of them, spread evenly from the oldest to the newest and always including both ends. When there are more versions than that, the result says so.
Prices. A price is an amount next to a currency sign ($, €, £, ₪) or code (USD, EUR, GBP, ILS) in the visible text of a snapshot. A change is reported when the list of prices differs between two consecutive snapshots that could be read. The tool reads text only and runs no script, so a price drawn by a script, an image or a toggle is not seen, and an empty list does not mean the page had no price.
Time and limits. The archive is slow and not always available. One run stops fetching snapshots after 25 seconds and shows what it has. When the archive is busy, down or answers something unreadable, the tool says so. If a single snapshot cannot be read, the others are still shown. All dates are in UTC.
Questions
Is the address I enter stored?
No. It goes to our server only to ask the archive and fetch the snapshots, and it is neither stored nor written to a log. Analytics records only that the tool ran, never the address.
Why does it show only a few snapshots?
The archive is slow, so the tool reads a sample of at most 8 versions, spread over the whole period. A price that changed and changed back between two sampled dates is not seen.
Why are there no prices for a snapshot?
The tool reads the text of the captured page. Prices that a script adds after load, or that are part of an image, are not in that text. Open the snapshot to see what the page looked like.
Why does it say the archive has nothing for my address?
The archive only holds pages it captured, and it matches the exact address. Try the address with and without a trailing slash, or the page you reach by clicking Pricing on the home page.