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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?
html url hyperlink website web-scraping
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Use the URL
http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:<your url without "http://"
>
Example:
http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:stackoverflow.com
It contains a header like this:
This is Google's cache of http://stackoverflow.com/. It is a snapshot of the pag
e as it appeared on 21 Aug 2012 11:33:38 GMT. The current page could have change
d in the meantime. Learn more
Tip: To quickly find your search term on this page, press Ctrl+F or ?+F (Mac) an
d use the find bar.
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Thanks for your answer - it's working. Tokendra Kumar Sahu Dec 30 '10 at 10:56
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So really it's <your url without "http://">. Toby Champion Aug 13 '12 at 13:15
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@TobyChampion obviously, yes Sean Patrick Floyd Aug 13 '12 at 13:36
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I failed over here : webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:stackoverflow
.com/ 404. Thats an error. The requested URL /search?q=cache:stackoverflow.com/use
rs was not found on this server. Thats all we know. rzr Aug 21 '12 at 10:33
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You can also use the cache: search operator in Google search bungeshea Dec 5 '1
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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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