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Archive pages and retrieve archived pages easily. Table of contents ================= * [Installation](#installation) * [Usage](#usage) * [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) * [Tests](#tests) * [Dependency](#dependency) * [License](#license) ## Installation Using [pip](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pip_(package_manager)): ```bash pip install waybackpy ``` ## Usage #### Capturing aka Saving an url using save() ```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) ``` ```bash https://web.archive.org/web/20200504141153/https://github.com/akamhy/waybackpy ``` Try this out in your browser @ #### Receiving the oldest archive for an URL using oldest() ```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) ``` ```bash http://web.archive.org/web/19981111184551/http://google.com:80/ ``` Try this out in your browser @ #### Receiving the newest archive for an URL using newest() ```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) ``` ```bash https://web.archive.org/web/20200714013225/https://www.facebook.com/ ``` Try this out in your browser @ #### Receiving archive close to a specified year, month, day, hour, and minute using near() ```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. ``` ```python github_archive_near_2010 = github_wayback_obj.near(year=2010) print(github_archive_near_2010) ``` ```bash https://web.archive.org/web/20100719134402/http://github.com/ ``` ```python github_archive_near_2011_may = github_wayback_obj.near(year=2011, month=5) print(github_archive_near_2011_may) ``` ```bash https://web.archive.org/web/20110519185447/https://github.com/ ``` ```python github_archive_near_2015_january_26 = github_wayback_obj.near( year=2015, month=1, day=26 ) print(github_archive_near_2015_january_26) ``` ```bash https://web.archive.org/web/20150127031159/https://github.com ``` ```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) ``` ```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 @ #### Get the content of webpage using get() ```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 @ #### Count total archives for an URL using total_archives() ```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 ``` ```bash 2440 ``` Try this out in your browser @ ## Tests * [Here](https://github.com/akamhy/waybackpy/tree/master/tests) ## Dependency * None, just python standard libraries (re, json, urllib and datetime). Both python 2 and 3 are supported :) ## License [MIT License](https://github.com/akamhy/waybackpy/blob/master/LICENSE)