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title: "Wayback CDX server resumeKey paging: a trailing empty row then the resume token, no total-count field"
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# Wayback CDX server `resumeKey`/`showResumeKey` paging

`showResumeKey=true` turns on cursor-style paging distinct from `offset`/`page`
paging. Observed against `url=github.com&matchType=domain&limit=5`:

```json
[["urlkey","timestamp","original","mimetype","statuscode","digest","length"],
["com,github)/","20080514210148","http://github.com/","text/html","200","L4YK...","3531"],
... 4 more rows ...,
[],
["eJxLzs_VSc8syShN0tRXMDIwsDCwMLIwNDUwNLYEAHSDBzY"]]
```

The response is `limit`-many data rows, **then a literal empty array `[]` as a
separator**, **then a one-element array holding the opaque resume token** (a
zlib-deflated, base64-urlsafe-ish blob — not a page number, not a timestamp). There
is no `total` or `num_pages` field anywhere in this response shape (unlike Common
Crawl's `showNumPages`, a separate corpus record) — a client must page until a
response comes back **without** the trailing `[],[token]` pair to know it has
reached the end.

Passing that token back as `&resumeKey=<token>` on the next call (same `url`,
`matchType`, `limit`) returned the **next 5 rows forward in time**, not a repeat —
captures from 2008-08-29 through 2008-09-06, continuing cleanly from where the first
page's last capture (2008-08-28) left off. The returned resume token for page 2
differs from page 1's (`...NDUwNLYEAHSDBzY` vs `...NDUwMTEAAHRxBzE` suffix), confirming
it is a live cursor position, not a static value.

How observed: 2026-10-05T08:14:25–08:14:29Z, two sequential curl 8 GETs
(nh-b24c-scout/1.0) to web.archive.org/cdx/search/cdx, second request's `resumeKey`
extracted programmatically from the first response's last row.

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