Google Killed the Cached Page View in Feb 2024. Here’s How I Replaced It

Описание и применение

Google удалил функцию кэша, что разрушило рабочие процессы SEO, журналистики и OSINT. Решение – использовать актёр NexGenData Google Cache Viewer, который автоматически ищет страницы в archive.today и Wayback, обрабатывает варианты URL и возвращает метаданные и извлечённый текст.

Задача

Google removed the cache: operator and cached link, breaking workflows that relied on quick access to archived page snapshots for SEO, journalism, OSINT, support, and litigation.

Результат

The workflow restores a reliable "show me what this page looked like" capability by automatically querying archive.today and Wayback, handling URL variants, and providing rich metadata and extracted text, effectively replacing Google’s removed cache feature.

Рабочий процесс

• 1. Identify the URL to inspect.
• 2. Send a POST request to the NexGenData Google Cache Viewer actor API with the URL, preferredSource set to "archive_today", fallbackToWayback true, and extractText true.
• 3. The actor queries archive.today for the URL (https, http, www variants, with/without trailing slash).
• 4. If no hit, it queries Wayback with the same variants.
• 5. Upon first successful match, the actor returns snapshot URL, timestamp, source, extracted text, title, meta description, word count, and attempted variants.
• 6. If no archive contains the page, the response indicates found:false and lists all attempted variants.

Доказательства

Google’s Danny Sullivan confirmed on X that the cache: operator and the "Cached" link in search results were being permanently removed.

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The actor implements a fallback chain: archive.today first, then Wayback, handling scheme variants automatically.

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