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
```
**Using [conda](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conda_(package_manager)), from [conda-forge](https://anaconda.org/conda-forge/waybackpy) (recommended)**:
See also [waybackpy feedstock](https://github.com/conda-forge/waybackpy-feedstock), maintainers are [@rafaelrdealmeida](https://github.com/rafaelrdealmeida/),
[@labriunesp](https://github.com/labriunesp/)
and [@akamhy](https://github.com/akamhy/).
```bash
conda install -c conda-forge 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 : 
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)
```
#### CDX API aka CDXServerAPI
```python
>>> from waybackpy import WaybackMachineCDXServerAPI
>>> url = "https://google.com"
>>> user_agent = "my new app's user agent"
>>> cdx_api = WaybackMachineCDXServerAPI(url, user_agent)
```
##### oldest
```python
>>> cdx_api.oldest()
com,google)/ 19981111184551 http://google.com:80/ text/html 200 HOQ2TGPYAEQJPNUA6M4SMZ3NGQRBXDZ3 381
>>> oldest = cdx_api.oldest()
>>> oldest
com,google)/ 19981111184551 http://google.com:80/ text/html 200 HOQ2TGPYAEQJPNUA6M4SMZ3NGQRBXDZ3 381
>>> oldest.archive_url
'https://web.archive.org/web/19981111184551/http://google.com:80/'
>>> oldest.original
'http://google.com:80/'
>>> oldest.urlkey
'com,google)/'
>>> oldest.timestamp
'19981111184551'
>>> oldest.datetime_timestamp
datetime.datetime(1998, 11, 11, 18, 45, 51)
>>> oldest.statuscode
'200'
>>> oldest.mimetype
'text/html'
```
##### newest
```python
>>> newest = cdx_api.newest()
>>> newest
com,google)/ 20220217234427 http://@google.com/ text/html 301 Y6PVK4XWOI3BXQEXM5WLLWU5JKUVNSFZ 563
>>> newest.archive_url
'https://web.archive.org/web/20220217234427/http://@google.com/'
>>> newest.timestamp
'20220217234427'
```
##### near
```python
>>> near = cdx_api.near(year=2010, month=10, day=10, hour=10, minute=10)
>>> near.archive_url
'https://web.archive.org/web/20101010101435/http://google.com/'
>>> near
com,google)/ 20101010101435 http://google.com/ text/html 301 Y6PVK4XWOI3BXQEXM5WLLWU5JKUVNSFZ 391
>>> near.timestamp
'20101010101435'
>>> near.timestamp
'20101010101435'
>>> near = cdx_api.near(wayback_machine_timestamp=2008080808)
>>> near.archive_url
'https://web.archive.org/web/20080808051143/http://google.com/'
>>> near = cdx_api.near(unix_timestamp=1286705410)
>>> near
com,google)/ 20101010101435 http://google.com/ text/html 301 Y6PVK4XWOI3BXQEXM5WLLWU5JKUVNSFZ 391
>>> near.archive_url
'https://web.archive.org/web/20101010101435/http://google.com/'
>>>
```
##### snapshots
```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/
```
#### Availability API
It is recommended to not use the availability API due to performance issues. All the methods of availability API interface class, `WaybackMachineAvailabilityAPI`, are also implemented in the CDX server API interface class, `WaybackMachineCDXServerAPI`.
```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)
```
##### oldest
```python
>>> availability_api.oldest()
https://web.archive.org/web/19981111184551/http://google.com:80/
```
##### newest
```python
>>> availability_api.newest()
https://web.archive.org/web/20220118150444/https://www.google.com/
```
##### near
```python
>>> availability_api.near(year=2010, month=10, day=10, hour=10)
https://web.archive.org/web/20101010101708/http://www.google.com/
```
> 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.