A Python package & CLI tool that interfaces with the Wayback Machine API
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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](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 [API](https://www.redhat.com/en/topics/api/what-are-application-programming-interfaces)s.
- [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)
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)), from [PyPI](https://pypi.org/) (recommended):
```bash
pip install waybackpy
```
Install directly from [this git repository](https://github.com/akamhy/waybackpy) (NOT recommended):
```bash
pip install git+https://github.com/akamhy/waybackpy.git
```
### 🐳 Docker Image
Docker Hub :
[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 (), an Italian cybersecurity startup.
### 🚀 Usage
#### As a Python package
##### Save API aka SavePageNow
```python
>>> from waybackpy import WaybackMachineSaveAPI
>>> url = "https://github.com"
>>> user_agent = "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 5.1; rv:40.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/40.0"
>>>
>>> save_api = WaybackMachineSaveAPI(url, user_agent)
>>> save_api.save()
https://web.archive.org/web/20220118125249/https://github.com/
>>> save_api.cached_save
False
>>> save_api.timestamp()
datetime.datetime(2022, 1, 18, 12, 52, 49)
```
##### Availability API
```python
>>> from waybackpy import WaybackMachineAvailabilityAPI
>>>
>>> url = "https://google.com"
>>> user_agent = "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 5.1; rv:40.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/40.0"
>>>
>>> availability_api = WaybackMachineAvailabilityAPI(url, user_agent)
>>>
>>> availability_api.oldest()
https://web.archive.org/web/19981111184551/http://google.com:80/
>>>
>>> availability_api.newest()
https://web.archive.org/web/20220118150444/https://www.google.com/
>>>
>>> availability_api.near(year=2010, month=10, day=10, hour=10)
https://web.archive.org/web/20101010101708/http://www.google.com/
```
##### CDX API aka CDXServerAPI
```python
>>> from waybackpy import WaybackMachineCDXServerAPI
>>> url = "https://pypi.org"
>>> user_agent = "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 5.1; rv:40.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/40.0"
>>> cdx = WaybackMachineCDXServerAPI(url, user_agent, start_timestamp=2016, end_timestamp=2017)
>>> for item in cdx.snapshots():
... print(item.archive_url)
...
https://web.archive.org/web/20160110011047/http://pypi.org/
https://web.archive.org/web/20160305104847/http://pypi.org/
.
. # URLS REDACTED FOR READABILITY
.
https://web.archive.org/web/20171127171549/https://pypi.org/
https://web.archive.org/web/20171206002737/http://pypi.org:80/
```
> Documentation is at .
#### As a CLI tool
Saving a webpage:
```bash
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
```
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"}
```
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/
```
> CLI documentation is at .
### 🛡 License
[](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.