waybackpy ========= |Build Status| |Downloads| |Release| |Codacy Badge| |License: MIT| |Maintainability| |CodeFactor| |made-with-python| |pypi| |PyPI - Python Version| |Maintenance| |codecov| |image12| |contributions welcome| |Internet Archive| |Wayback Machine| Waybackpy is a Python library that interfaces with the `Internet Archive `__'s `Wayback Machine `__ API. Archive pages and retrieve archived pages easily. Table of contents ================= .. raw:: html - `Installation <#installation>`__ - `Usage <#usage>`__ - `As a python package <#as-a-python-package>`__ - `Saving an url using save() <#capturing-aka-saving-an-url-using-save>`__ - `Receiving the oldest archive for an URL Using oldest() <#receiving-the-oldest-archive-for-an-url-using-oldest>`__ - `Receiving the recent most/newest archive for an URL using newest() <#receiving-the-newest-archive-for-an-url-using-newest>`__ - `Receiving archive close to a specified year, month, day, hour, and minute using near() <#receiving-archive-close-to-a-specified-year-month-day-hour-and-minute-using-near>`__ - `Get the content of webpage using get() <#get-the-content-of-webpage-using-get>`__ - `Count total archives for an URL using total\_archives() <#count-total-archives-for-an-url-using-total_archives>`__ - `With CLI <#with-the-cli>`__ - `Save <#save>`__ - `Oldest archive <#oldest-archive>`__ - `Newest archive <#newest-archive>`__ - `Total archives <#total-number-of-archives>`__ - `Archive near a time <#archive-near-time>`__ - `Get the source code <#get-the-source-code>`__ - `Tests <#tests>`__ - `Dependency <#dependency>`__ - `License <#license>`__ .. raw:: html Installation ------------ Using `pip `__: .. code:: bash pip install waybackpy or direct from this repository using git. .. code:: bash pip install git+https://github.com/akamhy/waybackpy.git Usage ----- As a python package ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Capturing aka Saving an url using save() ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ .. code:: python import waybackpy new_archive_url = waybackpy.Url( 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" ).save() print(new_archive_url) .. code:: bash https://web.archive.org/web/20200504141153/https://github.com/akamhy/waybackpy Try this out in your browser @ https://repl.it/@akamhy/WaybackPySaveExample\ Receiving the oldest archive for an URL using oldest() ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ .. code:: python import waybackpy oldest_archive_url = waybackpy.Url( "https://www.google.com/", "Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.8; rv:40.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/40.0" ).oldest() print(oldest_archive_url) .. code:: bash http://web.archive.org/web/19981111184551/http://google.com:80/ Try this out in your browser @ https://repl.it/@akamhy/WaybackPyOldestExample\ Receiving the newest archive for an URL using newest() ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ .. code:: python import waybackpy newest_archive_url = waybackpy.Url( "https://www.facebook.com/", "Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.10; rv:39.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/39.0" ).newest() print(newest_archive_url) .. code:: bash https://web.archive.org/web/20200714013225/https://www.facebook.com/ Try this out in your browser @ https://repl.it/@akamhy/WaybackPyNewestExample\ Receiving archive close to a specified year, month, day, hour, and minute using near() ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ .. code:: python from waybackpy import Url user_agent = "Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.10; rv:38.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/38.0" github_url = "https://github.com/" github_wayback_obj = Url(github_url, user_agent) # Do not pad (don't use zeros in the month, year, day, minute, and hour arguments). e.g. For January, set month = 1 and not month = 01. .. code:: python github_archive_near_2010 = github_wayback_obj.near(year=2010) print(github_archive_near_2010) .. code:: bash https://web.archive.org/web/20100719134402/http://github.com/ .. code:: python github_archive_near_2011_may = github_wayback_obj.near(year=2011, month=5) print(github_archive_near_2011_may) .. code:: bash https://web.archive.org/web/20110519185447/https://github.com/ .. code:: python github_archive_near_2015_january_26 = github_wayback_obj.near( year=2015, month=1, day=26 ) print(github_archive_near_2015_january_26) .. code:: bash https://web.archive.org/web/20150127031159/https://github.com .. code:: python github_archive_near_2018_4_july_9_2_am = github_wayback_obj.near( year=2018, month=7, day=4, hour = 9, minute = 2 ) print(github_archive_near_2018_4_july_9_2_am) .. code:: bash https://web.archive.org/web/20180704090245/https://github.com/ The library doesn't supports seconds yet. You are encourged to create a PR ;) Try this out in your browser @ https://repl.it/@akamhy/WaybackPyNearExample\ Get the content of webpage using get() ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ .. code:: python import waybackpy google_url = "https://www.google.com/" User_Agent = "Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_10_0) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/45.0.2454.85 Safari/537.36" waybackpy_url_object = waybackpy.Url(google_url, User_Agent) # If no argument is passed in get(), it gets the source of the Url used to create the object. current_google_url_source = waybackpy_url_object.get() print(current_google_url_source) # The following chunk of code will force a new archive of google.com and get the source of the archived page. # waybackpy_url_object.save() type is string. google_newest_archive_source = waybackpy_url_object.get( waybackpy_url_object.save() ) print(google_newest_archive_source) # waybackpy_url_object.oldest() type is str, it's oldest archive of google.com google_oldest_archive_source = waybackpy_url_object.get( waybackpy_url_object.oldest() ) print(google_oldest_archive_source) Try this out in your browser @ https://repl.it/@akamhy/WaybackPyGetExample#main.py\ Count total archives for an URL using total\_archives() ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ .. code:: python import waybackpy URL = "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Python (programming language)" UA = "Mozilla/5.0 (iPad; CPU OS 8_1_1 like Mac OS X) AppleWebKit/600.1.4 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/8.0 Mobile/12B435 Safari/600.1.4" archive_count = waybackpy.Url( url=URL, user_agent=UA ).total_archives() print(archive_count) # total_archives() returns an int .. code:: bash 2440 Try this out in your browser @ https://repl.it/@akamhy/WaybackPyTotalArchivesExample\ With the CLI ~~~~~~~~~~~~ Save ^^^^ .. code:: bash $ waybackpy --url "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_media" --user_agent "my-unique-user-agent" --save https://web.archive.org/web/20200719062108/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_media Try this out in your browser @ https://repl.it/@akamhy/WaybackPyBashSave\ Oldest archive ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ .. code:: bash $ waybackpy --url "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SpaceX" --user_agent "my-unique-user-agent" --oldest https://web.archive.org/web/20040803000845/http://en.wikipedia.org:80/wiki/SpaceX Try this out in your browser @ https://repl.it/@akamhy/WaybackPyBashOldest\ Newest archive ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ .. code:: bash $ waybackpy --url "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/YouTube" --user_agent "my-unique-user-agent" --newest https://web.archive.org/web/20200606044708/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/YouTube Try this out in your browser @ https://repl.it/@akamhy/WaybackPyBashNewest\ Total number of archives ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ .. code:: bash $ waybackpy --url "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linux_kernel" --user_agent "my-unique-user-agent" --total 853 Try this out in your browser @ https://repl.it/@akamhy/WaybackPyBashTotal\ Archive near time ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ .. code:: bash $ waybackpy --url facebook.com --user_agent "my-unique-user-agent" --near --year 2012 --month 5 --day 12 https://web.archive.org/web/20120512142515/https://www.facebook.com/ Try this out in your browser @ https://repl.it/@akamhy/WaybackPyBashNear\ Get the source code ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ .. code:: bash $ waybackpy --url google.com --user_agent "my-unique-user-agent" --get url # Prints the source code of the url $ waybackpy --url google.com --user_agent "my-unique-user-agent" --get oldest # Prints the source code of the oldest archive $ waybackpy --url google.com --user_agent "my-unique-user-agent" --get newest # Prints the source code of the newest archive $ waybackpy --url google.com --user_agent "my-unique-user-agent" --get save # Save a new archive on wayback machine then print the source code of this archive. Try this out in your browser @ https://repl.it/@akamhy/WaybackPyBashGet\ Tests ----- - `Here `__ Dependency ---------- - None, just python standard libraries (re, json, urllib, argparse and datetime). 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