Research Way Back Machine APIs

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User Story: As a developer, I would like to understand the Way Back Machine APIs and similar technology in order to see if we can pass the data to the api and display the actual page into our application

Acceptance Criteria:

• [x] Determine if any of the APIs allow us to retrieve data that is relevant
• [x] Test to see if the API works from client side
• [x] Go through documentation to determine parameters

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According to a recent article from 2023, we are able to retrieve a web page and its cached contents by utilizing the Wayback Machine API: https://importsem.com/get-cached-pages-via-python-and-wayback-machine-api/#:~:text=To%20retrieve%20cached%20pages%20programmatically,content%20for%20the%20specified%20date.

We are able to retrieve the urls that we need. However, the API takes you to the URL and doesn't return the HTML itself. In order to retrieve just the content, we might have to scrape the web page.