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

Question

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?

Solution 1

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.

Solution 2

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.

Solution 3

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.

Solution 4

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.

Solution 5

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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Comments

[Thomas]

webapps.stackexchange.com/questions/15633/…

[Gabor]

wow, it even works around robots.txt; I use it to read blogger since our corporate firewall disabled its URL

[shea]

You can also use the cache: search operator in Google search

[Stalinko]

For https it requires the https:// part, otherwise returns 404

[lmaooooo]

This site does it this automatically: cachedview.me

[Sean Patrick Floyd]

@lmaooooo please add that as a separate answer

[blueren]

I used to use this for a long time. But it seems to fail on websites like medium.com recently.