How can I get the Google cache age of any URL or web page?

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In my project I need the Google cache age to be added as important information. I tried to search sources for the Google cache age, that is, the number of days since Google last re-indexed the page listed.

Where can I get the Google cache age?

http://webapps.stackexchange.com/questions/15633/how-to-modify-a-url-to-get-a-google-cached-version-of-page — Thomas, Aug 14 '14 at 14:13

score 377 · Accepted Answer · edited Jan 05 '19 at 10:27

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Use the URL

https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:<your url without "http://">

Example:

https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:stackoverflow.com

It contains a header like this:

This is Google's cache of https://stackoverflow.com/. It is a snapshot of the page as it appeared on 21 Aug 2012 11:33:38 GMT. The current page could have changed in the meantime. Learn more
Tip: To quickly find your search term on this page, press Ctrl+F or ⌘+F (Mac) and use the find bar.

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adiga

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wow, it even works around `robots.txt`; I use it to read blogger since our corporate firewall disabled its URL – Gabor Apr 13 '12 at 10:17
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You can also use the `cache:` search operator in Google search – shea Dec 05 '12 at 02:47
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For `https` it requires the `https://` part, otherwise returns 404 – Stalinko Jan 29 '18 at 08:22
This site does it this automatically: https://www.cachedview.me/ – lmaooooo Apr 15 '18 at 00:11
@lmaooooo please add that as a separate answer – Sean Patrick Floyd Apr 15 '18 at 21:43

score 18 · Answer 2 · edited Feb 23 '14 at 20:15

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You'll need to scrape the resulting page, but you can view the most recent cache page using this URL:

http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:www.something.com/path

Google information is put in the first div in the body tag.

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score 15 · Answer 3 · answered Jul 23 '14 at 04:59

you can Use CachedPages website

Cached pages are usually saved and stored by large companies with powerful web servers. Since such servers are usually very fast, a cached page can often be accessed faster than the live page itself:

Google usually keeps a recent copy of the page (1 to 15 days old).
Coral also keeps a recent copy, although it's usually not as recent as Google.
Through Archive.org, you can access several copies of a web page saved throughout the years.

Jason Clark · Answer 4 · 2016-04-05T04:45:24.053

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its too simple, you can just type "cache:" before the URL of the page. for example if you want to check the last webcache of this page simply type on URL bar cache:http://stackoverflow.com/questions/4560400/how-can-i-get-the-google-cache-age-of-any-url-or-web-page

this will show you the last webcache of the page.see here:

But remember, the caching of a webpage will only show if the page is already indexed on search engine(Google). for this you need to check the meta robot tag of that page.

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I used to use this for a long time. But it seems to fail on websites like medium.com recently. – blueren Apr 14 '19 at 04:52

score 1 · Answer 5 · answered May 09 '18 at 03:15

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You can use this site: https://cachedviews.com/ . Cache View or Cached Pages of Any Website - Google Cached Pages of Any Website

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user5746128 · Answer 6 · 2016-02-15T15:34:40.153

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This one good also to view cachepage http://www.cachepage.net

Cache page view via google: webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache: Your url
Cache page view via archive.org: web.archive.org/web/*/Your url

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How can I get the Google cache age of any URL or web page?

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