Practical CLI examples

This page contains practical, copy/paste-friendly examples.

Basic collection

wayparam -d example.com

Writes results to: - results/example.com.txt (default format txt)

wayparam -l domains.txt

wayparam -d example.com --stdout --no-files | sort -u > urls.txt

wayparam -d example.com --stdout --no-files | grep -i "redirect"

wayparam -d example.com --stdout --no-files --format jsonl | jq -r '.url' | sort -u

wayparam -d example.com --include-subdomains --from 2018 --to 2021

Exclude typical static paths:

wayparam -d example.com --exclude-path-regex "^/static/" --exclude-path-regex "^/assets/"

wayparam -l domains.txt --rps 1 --concurrency 2

wayparam -d example.com --source commoncrawl

Common Crawl requests are serialized and default to one request per second.

wayparam -d example.com --source commoncrawl \
  --cc-index CC-MAIN-2026-39 \
  --cc-index CC-MAIN-2026-34

wayparam -d example.com --source wayback,commoncrawl --stdout --no-files

The output is deduplicated across sources. For provenance, use JSONL:

wayparam -d example.com --source wayback,commoncrawl \
  --stdout --no-files --format jsonl

wayparam -d example.com --keep-values

Use only if you understand the privacy implications.

Group all accepted captures by normalized URL and retain first/last seen, capture count, status codes and MIME types:

wayparam -d example.com --history --stdout --no-files --format jsonl

A narrower time window can keep large archives manageable:

wayparam -d example.com --history --from 2022 --to 2026 --max-results 50000

wayparam -d example.com --params --stdout --no-files

The text view is tab-separated and reports parameter name, endpoint count, capture count and first/last seen timestamps.

wayparam -l domains.txt --summary --format jsonl

Historical modes are currently Wayback-only and automatically disable CDX collapse; expect them to retrieve more rows than a normal URL collection.