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<h3>Python package & CLI tool that interfaces with the Wayback Machine API</h3>
<h3>A Python package & CLI tool that interfaces with the Wayback Machine API</h3>
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## ⭐️ Introduction
Waybackpy is a [Python package](https://www.udacity.com/blog/2021/01/what-is-a-python-package.html) and a CLI tool that interfaces with the Wayback Machine API.
Waybackpy is a [Python package](https://www.udacity.com/blog/2021/01/what-is-a-python-package.html) and a [CLI](https://www.w3schools.com/whatis/whatis_cli.asp) tool that interfaces with the [Wayback Machine](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wayback_Machine) API.
Wayback Machine has 3 client side APIs.
Wayback Machine has 3 client side [API](https://www.redhat.com/en/topics/api/what-are-application-programming-interfaces)s.
- Save API
- Availability API
- CDX API
- [Save API](https://github.com/akamhy/waybackpy/wiki/Wayback-Machine-APIs#save-api)
- [Availability API](https://github.com/akamhy/waybackpy/wiki/Wayback-Machine-APIs#availability-api)
- [CDX API](https://github.com/akamhy/waybackpy/wiki/Wayback-Machine-APIs#cdx-api)
All three of these can be accessed by waybackpy.
These three APIs can be accessed via the waybackpy either by importing it in a script or from the CLI.
### 🏗 Installation
Using [pip](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pip_(package_manager)):
Using [pip](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pip_(package_manager)), from [PyPI](https://pypi.org/) (recommended):
```bash
pip install waybackpy
```
Install directly from GitHub:
Install directly from [this git repository](https://github.com/akamhy/waybackpy) (NOT recommended):
```bash
pip install git+https://github.com/akamhy/waybackpy.git
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### 🐳 Docker Image
Docker Hub : <https://hub.docker.com/r/secsi/waybackpy>
Docker image is automatically updated on every release by [Regulary and Automatically Updated Docker Images](https://github.com/cybersecsi/RAUDI) (RAUDI).
[Docker image](https://searchitoperations.techtarget.com/definition/Docker-image) is automatically updated on every release by [Regulary and Automatically Updated Docker Images](https://github.com/cybersecsi/RAUDI) (RAUDI).
RAUDI is a tool by SecSI (<https://secsi.io>), an Italian cybersecurity startup.
### 🚀 Usage
#### As a Python package
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https://web.archive.org/web/20171206002737/http://pypi.org:80/
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> Documentation at <https://github.com/akamhy/waybackpy/wiki/Python-package-docs>.
> Documentation is at <https://github.com/akamhy/waybackpy/wiki/Python-package-docs>.
#### As a CLI tool
Saving a webpage:
```bash
$ waybackpy --save --url "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_media" --user_agent "my-unique-user-agent"
https://web.archive.org/web/20200719062108/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_media
waybackpy --save --url "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_media" --user_agent "my-unique-user-agent"
```
```bash
Archive URL:
https://web.archive.org/web/20220121193801/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_media
Cached save:
False
```
$ waybackpy --oldest --url "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Humanoid" --user_agent "my-unique-user-agent"
Retriving the oldest archive and also printing the JSON response of the availability API:
```bash
waybackpy --oldest --json --url "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Humanoid" --user_agent "my-unique-user-agent"
```
```bash
Archive URL:
https://web.archive.org/web/20040415020811/http://en.wikipedia.org:80/wiki/Humanoid
JSON response:
{"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Humanoid", "archived_snapshots": {"closest": {"status": "200", "available": true, "url": "http://web.archive.org/web/20040415020811/http://en.wikipedia.org:80/wiki/Humanoid", "timestamp": "20040415020811"}}, "timestamp": "199401212126"}
```
$ waybackpy --url google.com --user_agent "my-unique-user-agent" --near --year 2008 --month 8 --day 8
Archive close to a time, minute level precision is supported:
```bash
waybackpy --url google.com --user_agent "my-unique-user-agent" --near --year 2008 --month 8 --day 8
```
```bash
Archive URL:
https://web.archive.org/web/20080808014003/http://www.google.com:80/
```
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### 🛡 License
[![License: MIT](https://img.shields.io/badge/License-MIT-green.svg)](https://github.com/akamhy/waybackpy/blob/master/LICENSE)
Copyright (c) 2020-2022 Akash Mahanty Et al.
Released under the MIT License. See [license](https://github.com/akamhy/waybackpy/blob/master/LICENSE) for details.

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Raised when Waybackpy can not return what you asked for.
1) Wayback Machine API Service is unreachable/down.
2) You passed illegal arguments.
All other exceptions are inherited from this class.
"""