Time Travel lets you step back in time and read the news exactly as it was on any past day. Rather than replacing your current view, it loads a historical batch of stories from Kagi’s archive so you can explore what was happening on a specific date.Documentation Index
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Historical data is available back to January 1, 2024. Time Travel is currently marked as Beta and is available to all users during the beta period.
How to use Time Travel
Open the Time Travel modal
Click the Time Travel button in the top navigation bar (the clock icon). The calendar modal will open, showing the current month.
Navigate to the month you want
Use the ‹ and › arrows to move between months. You can also click the month/year header to reveal a year selector dropdown, which is useful for jumping back further.Days that have available news batches display a small blue dot indicator. Days outside the January 2024 – today range are dimmed and cannot be selected.
Select a day
Click any highlighted day. If the day has exactly one batch, Time Travel loads that batch immediately. If the day has multiple batches (Kagi typically publishes updates several times per day), a batch selector slides in showing each update’s publication time and story count.
Choose a batch (if multiple exist)
Each listed batch shows:
- Its publication time (e.g., 9:41 AM)
- Total story count
- A Latest badge on the most recent batch for that day
Browse historical stories
The feed switches to the selected batch. The URL updates to include the batch date slug so you can bookmark or share the exact view. All categories, search, and story features work normally in historical batches.
Batch date slugs and URLs
Every batch has adateSlug in the format YYYY-MM-DD.N, where N is the sequential batch number for that day (starting at 1 for the earliest batch):
YYYYMMDDN where N is the sequence number):
Sharing a Time Travel link
Because the batch slug is part of the URL, sharing is as simple as copying the address bar. Recipients do not need a Kagi account to view the historical batch, though some features (such as settings sync) require sign-in.Technical details
The Time Travel component fetches batch metadata from the batches API:new Date(2024, 0, 1) (January 1, 2024) and the maximum is always the current day adjusted to end-of-day to avoid timezone edge cases.