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Python package & CLI tool that interfaces with the Wayback Machine API.
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Table of contents
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- `Installation <#installation>`__
- `Usage <#usage>`__
- `As a Python package <#as-a-python-package>`__
- `Saving a webpage <#capturing-aka-saving-an-url-using-save>`__
- `Retrieving
archive <#retrieving-the-archive-for-an-url-using-archive_url>`__
- `Retrieving the oldest
archive <#retrieving-the-oldest-archive-for-an-url-using-oldest>`__
- `Retrieving the recent most/newest
archive <#retrieving-the-newest-archive-for-an-url-using-newest>`__
- `Retrieving the JSON response of availability
API <#retrieving-the-json-reponse-for-the-avaliblity-api-request>`__
- `Retrieving archive close to a specified year, month, day, hour,
and
minute <#retrieving-archive-close-to-a-specified-year-month-day-hour-and-minute-using-near>`__
- `Get the content of
webpage <#get-the-content-of-webpage-using-get>`__
- `Count total archives for an
URL <#count-total-archives-for-an-url-using-total_archives>`__
- `List of URLs that Wayback Machine knows and has archived for a
domain
name <#list-of-urls-that-wayback-machine-knows-and-has-archived-for-a-domain-name>`__
- `With the Command-line
interface <#with-the-command-line-interface>`__
- `Saving webpage <#save>`__
- `Archive URL <#get-archive-url>`__
- `Oldest archive URL <#oldest-archive>`__
- `Newest archive URL <#newest-archive>`__
- `JSON response of API <#get-json-data-of-avaialblity-api>`__
- `Total archives <#total-number-of-archives>`__
- `Archive near specified time <#archive-near-time>`__
- `Get the source code <#get-the-source-code>`__
- `Fetch all the URLs that the Wayback Machine knows for a
domain <#fetch-all-the-urls-that-the-wayback-machine-knows-for-a-domain>`__
- `Tests <#tests>`__
- `Dependency <#dependency>`__
- `Packaging <#packaging>`__
- `License <#license>`__
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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
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"
waybackpy_url_obj = waybackpy.Url(url, user_agent)
archive = waybackpy_url_obj.save()
print(archive)
.. code:: bash
https://web.archive.org/web/20201016171808/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multivariable_calculus
Try this out in your browser @
https://repl.it/@akamhy/WaybackPySaveExample\
Retrieving the archive for an URL using archive\_url
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
.. code:: python
import waybackpy
url = "https://www.google.com/"
user_agent = "Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.8; rv:40.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/40.0"
waybackpy_url_obj = waybackpy.Url(url, user_agent)
archive_url = waybackpy_url_obj.archive_url
print(archive_url)
.. code:: bash
https://web.archive.org/web/20201016153320/https://www.google.com/
Try this out in your browser @
https://repl.it/@akamhy/WaybackPyArchiveUrl\
Retrieving the oldest archive for an URL using oldest()
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
.. code:: python
import waybackpy
url = "https://www.google.com/"
user_agent = "Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.8; rv:40.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/40.0"
waybackpy_url_obj = waybackpy.Url(url, user_agent)
oldest_archive_url = waybackpy_url_obj.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\
Retrieving the newest archive for an URL using newest()
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
.. code:: python
import waybackpy
url = "https://www.facebook.com/"
user_agent = "Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.10; rv:39.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/39.0"
waybackpy_url_obj = waybackpy.Url(url, user_agent)
newest_archive_url = waybackpy_url_obj.newest()
print(newest_archive_url)
.. code:: bash
https://web.archive.org/web/20201016150543/https://www.facebook.com/
Try this out in your browser @
https://repl.it/@akamhy/WaybackPyNewestExample\
Retrieving the JSON reponse for the avaliblity API request
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
.. code:: python
import waybackpy
url = "https://www.facebook.com/"
user_agent = "Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.10; rv:39.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/39.0"
waybackpy_url_obj = waybackpy.Url(url, user_agent)
json_dict = waybackpy_url_obj.JSON
print(json_dict)
.. code:: javascript
{'url': 'https://www.facebook.com/', 'archived_snapshots': {'closest': {'available': True, 'url': 'http://web.archive.org/web/20201016150543/https://www.facebook.com/', 'timestamp': '20201016150543', 'status': '200'}}}
Try this out in your browser @ https://repl.it/@akamhy/WaybackPyJSON\
Retrieving 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"
url = "https://github.com/"
waybackpy_url_obj = Url(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 = waybackpy_url_obj.near(year=2010)
print(github_archive_near_2010)
.. code:: bash
https://web.archive.org/web/20101018053604/http://github.com:80/
.. code:: python
github_archive_near_2011_may = waybackpy_url_obj.near(year=2011, month=5)
print(github_archive_near_2011_may)
.. code:: bash
https://web.archive.org/web/20110518233639/https://github.com/
.. code:: python
github_archive_near_2015_january_26 = waybackpy_url_obj.near(year=2015, month=1, day=26)
print(github_archive_near_2015_january_26)
.. code:: bash
https://web.archive.org/web/20150125102636/https://github.com/
.. code:: python
github_archive_near_2018_4_july_9_2_am = waybackpy_url_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 package doesn't support second argument 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"
waybackpy_url_object = waybackpy.Url(url=URL, user_agent=UA)
archive_count = waybackpy_url_object.total_archives()
print(archive_count) # total_archives() returns an int
.. code:: bash
2516
Try this out in your browser @
https://repl.it/@akamhy/WaybackPyTotalArchivesExample\
List of URLs that Wayback Machine knows and has archived for a domain name
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
| 1) If alive=True is set, waybackpy will check all URLs to identify the
alive URLs. Don't use with popular websites like google or it would take
too long.
| 2) To include URLs from subdomain set sundomain=True
.. code:: python
import waybackpy
URL = "akamhy.github.io"
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"
waybackpy_url_object = waybackpy.Url(url=URL, user_agent=UA)
known_urls = waybackpy_url_object.known_urls(alive=True, subdomain=False) # alive and subdomain are optional.
print(known_urls) # known_urls() returns list of URLs
.. code:: bash
['http://akamhy.github.io',
'https://akamhy.github.io/waybackpy/',
'https://akamhy.github.io/waybackpy/assets/css/style.css?v=a418a4e4641a1dbaad8f3bfbf293fad21a75ff11',
'https://akamhy.github.io/waybackpy/assets/css/style.css?v=f881705d00bf47b5bf0c58808efe29eecba2226c']
Try this out in your browser @
https://repl.it/@akamhy/WaybackPyKnownURLsToWayBackMachineExample#main.py\
With the Command-line interface
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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\
Get archive URL
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
.. code:: bash
$ waybackpy --url "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SpaceX" --user_agent "my-unique-user-agent" --archive_url
https://web.archive.org/web/20201007132458/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SpaceX
Try this out in your browser @
https://repl.it/@akamhy/WaybackPyBashArchiveUrl\
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\
Get JSON data of avaialblity API
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
.. code:: bash
waybackpy --url "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SpaceX" --user_agent "my-unique-user-agent" --json
.. code:: javascript
{'archived_snapshots': {'closest': {'timestamp': '20201007132458', 'status': '200', 'available': True, 'url': 'http://web.archive.org/web/20201007132458/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SpaceX'}}, 'url': 'https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SpaceX'}
Try this out in your browser @
https://repl.it/@akamhy/WaybackPyBashJSON\
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\
Fetch all the URLs that the Wayback Machine knows for a domain
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
| 1) You can add the '--alive' flag to only fetch alive links.
| 2) You can add the '--subdomain' flag to add subdomains.
| 3) '--alive' and '--subdomain' flags can be used simultaneously.
| 4) All links will be saved in a file, and the file will be created in
the current working directory.
.. code:: bash
pip install waybackpy
# Ignore the above installation line.
waybackpy --url akamhy.github.io --user_agent "my-user-agent" --known_urls
# Prints all known URLs under akamhy.github.io
waybackpy --url akamhy.github.io --user_agent "my-user-agent" --known_urls --alive
# Prints all known URLs under akamhy.github.io which are still working and not dead links.
waybackpy --url akamhy.github.io --user_agent "my-user-agent" --known_urls --subdomain
# Prints all known URLs under akamhy.github.io inclusing subdomain
waybackpy --url akamhy.github.io --user_agent "my-user-agent" --known_urls --subdomain --alive
# Prints all known URLs under akamhy.github.io including subdomain which are not dead links and still alive.
Try this out in your browser @
https://repl.it/@akamhy/WaybackpyKnownUrlsFromWaybackMachine#main.sh\
Tests
-----
To run tests locally:
1) Install or update the testing/coverage tools
.. code:: bash
pip install codecov pytest pytest-cov -U
2) Inside the repository run the following commands
.. code:: bash
pytest --cov=waybackpy tests/
3) To report coverage run
.. code:: bash
bash <(curl -s https://codecov.io/bash) -t SECRET_CODECOV_TOKEN
You can find the tests
`here `__.
Packaging
---------
#. Increment version.
#. Build package ``python setup.py sdist bdist_wheel``.
#. Sign & upload the package ``twine upload -s dist/*``.
License
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| Released under the MIT License. See
| `license `__
for details.
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