waybacksteroids — Fast multi-domain Wayback Machine endpoint enumerator.

Features • Installation • Usage • Running waybacksteroids • Examples

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waybacksteroids is an enumeration tool that automates the retrieval of archived URLs from the Wayback Machine. It supports processing multiple domains simultaneously, making it useful for quickly discovering historical endpoints and uncovering hidden paths across different targets.

Features

• 📤 Flexible input: single domain, wordlist or stdin pipe (fits any recon workflow)
• 🎯 Clean, de-duplicated output per domain (domain_steroids.txt)
• 🔁 Auto-retry on transient failures (configurable)

Installation Instructions

From source (Go ≥ 1.20)

go install github.com/LucasKatashi/waybacksteroids/cmd/waybacksteroids@latest

Build manually

git clone https://github.com/LucasKatashi/waybacksteroids.git
cd waybacksteroids
go build -o waybacksteroids ./cmd/waybacksteroids

Usage

waybacksteroids -h

This will display help for the tool. Here are all the switches it supports.

Usage:
 waybacksteroids [flags]

INPUT METHODS (choose one):
 -t, --target           single target domain (e.g., example.com)
 -w, --wordlist         file containing list of domains (one per line)
 --stdin                read domains from stdin (pipe from other tools)

CONFIGURATION:
 -o, --output           output directory (required) - saves results in domain_steroids.txt files
 --threads              number of concurrent threads (default: 3, max recommended: 5)
 -r, --retries          number of retry attempts for failed requests (default: 3)

OUTPUT OPTIONS:
 -p, --print            print URLs to stdout (no files created)
 -v, --verbose          enable verbose mode
 -s, --silent           suppress banner and info messages

Examples

Single domain

waybacksteroids -t example.com -o output/

Multiple domains from file

waybacksteroids -w domains.txt -o output/

Pipe from subdomain enumeration tool

seekly -domain example.com | waybacksteroids --stdin -o output/

Print to stdout only

waybacksteroids -t example.com -p

Sample Output

Running

waybacksteroids -t example.com -o output/

creates output/example.com_steroids.txt containing:

http://example.com/robots.txt
http://example.com/.git/config
http://example.com/api/v1/users
http://example.com/admin/login.jsp
[...]