diff --git a/README.md b/README.md index 7f4ad71..230e9ea 100644 --- a/README.md +++ b/README.md @@ -4,7 +4,7 @@ The waybackpy is python wrapper for [Internet Archive](https://en.wikipedia.org/ ## Usage -### Capturing/Saving a url/website. Using save() function. +### Capturing/Saving a url/website. Using save(). waybackpy.save(url, UA=user_agent) @@ -19,3 +19,19 @@ This should print something similar to the following archived url: ``` https://web.archive.org/web/20200504141153/https://github.com/akamhy/waybackpy ``` + +### Retiving the oldest archive for a url. Using oldest(). + +waybackpy.oldest(url, UA=user_agent) + +```python +import waybackpy +# retriving the oldest archive on wayback machine. +# Default user-agent (UA) is "waybackpy python package", if not specified in the call. +oldest_archive = waybackpy.oldest("https://www.google.com/", UA = "Any-User-Agent") +print(oldest_archive) +``` +This returns the oldest available archive for google.com (Check it out! It's really fascinating! and follow those blue links.) +``` +http://web.archive.org/web/19981111184551/http://google.com:80/ +```