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-------------- Python package & CLI tool that interfaces with the Wayback Machine API. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- | |pypi| | |License: MIT| | |Build Status| | |codecov| | |contributions welcome| | |Codacy Badge| | |Downloads| | |Release| | |Maintainability| | |made-with-python| | |Maintenance| | |GitHub last commit| | |PyPI - Python Version| Table of contents ================= .. raw:: html - `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>`__ .. 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 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 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ 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 ------- | Released under the MIT License. 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