Python package & CLI tool that interfaces with the Wayback Machine API
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### Installation
Using [pip](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pip_(package_manager)):
```bash
pip install waybackpy
```
Install directly from GitHub:
```bash
pip install git+https://github.com/akamhy/waybackpy.git
```
### Usage
#### As a python package
```python
>>> import waybackpy
>>> url = "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multivariable_calculus"
>>> user_agent = "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 5.1; rv:40.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/40.0"
>>> wayback = waybackpy.Url(url, user_agent)
>>> archive = wayback.save()
>> str(archive)
'https://web.archive.org/web/20210104173410/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multivariable_calculus'
>> archive.timestamp
datetime.datetime(2021, 1, 4, 17, 35, 12, 691741)
>> oldest_archive = wayback.oldest()
>> str(oldest_archive)
'https://web.archive.org/web/20050422130129/http://en.wikipedia.org:80/wiki/Multivariable_calculus'
>> archive_close_to_2010_feb = wayback.near(year=2010, month=2)
>> str(archive_close_to_2010_feb)
'https://web.archive.org/web/20100215001541/http://en.wikipedia.org:80/wiki/Multivariable_calculus'
>> str(wayback.newest())
'https://web.archive.org/web/20210104173410/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multivariable_calculus'
```
#### As a CLI tool
```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 --oldest --url "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Humanoid" --user_agent "my-unique-user-agent"
https://web.archive.org/web/20040415020811/http://en.wikipedia.org:80/wiki/Humanoid
$ waybackpy --newest --url "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Remote_sensing" --user_agent "my-unique-user-agent"
https://web.archive.org/web/20201221130522/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Remote_sensing
$ waybackpy --total --url "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linux_kernel" --user_agent "my-unique-user-agent"
1904
$ waybackpy --known_urls --url akamhy.github.io --user_agent "my-unique-user-agent"
https://akamhy.github.io
https://akamhy.github.io/assets/js/scale.fix.js
https://akamhy.github.io/favicon.ico
https://akamhy.github.io/robots.txt
https://akamhy.github.io/waybackpy/
'akamhy.github.io-10-urls-m2a24y.txt' saved in current working directory
```
> Full documentation can be found at .
## License
[](https://github.com/akamhy/waybackpy/blob/master/LICENSE)
Released under the MIT License. See
[license](https://github.com/akamhy/waybackpy/blob/master/LICENSE) for details.
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