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Python package & CLI tool that interfaces with the Wayback Machine API.
Table of contents
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- Saving a webpage
- Retrieving archive
- Retrieving the oldest archive
- Retrieving the latest/newest archive
- Retrieving the JSON response of availability API
- Retrieving archive close to a specified year, month, day, hour, and minute
- Get the content of webpage
- Count total archives for an URL
- List of URLs that Wayback Machine knows and has archived for a domain name
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Installation
Using pip:
pip install waybackpy
or direct from this repository using git.
pip install git+https://github.com/akamhy/waybackpy.git
Usage
As a Python package
Capturing aka Saving an URL using save()
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)
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
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)
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()
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)
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()
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)
https://web.archive.org/web/20201016150543/https://www.facebook.com/
Try this out in your browser @ https://repl.it/@akamhy/WaybackPyNewestExample
Retrieving the JSON response for the availability API request
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)
{'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()
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.
github_archive_near_2010 = waybackpy_url_obj.near(year=2010)
print(github_archive_near_2010)
https://web.archive.org/web/20101018053604/http://github.com:80/
github_archive_near_2011_may = waybackpy_url_obj.near(year=2011, month=5)
print(github_archive_near_2011_may)
https://web.archive.org/web/20110518233639/https://github.com/
github_archive_near_2015_january_26 = waybackpy_url_obj.near(year=2015, month=1, day=26)
print(github_archive_near_2015_january_26)
https://web.archive.org/web/20150125102636/https://github.com/
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)
https://web.archive.org/web/20180704090245/https://github.com/
The package doesn't support the seconds' argument yet. You are encouraged to create a PR ;)
Try this out in your browser @ https://repl.it/@akamhy/WaybackPyNearExample
Get the content of webpage using get()
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()
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
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
- 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.
- To include URLs from subdomain set sundomain=True
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
['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
$ 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
$ 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
$ 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
$ 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
waybackpy --url "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SpaceX" --user_agent "my-unique-user-agent" --json
{'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
$ 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
$ 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
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
- You can add the '--alive' flag to only fetch alive links.
- You can add the '--subdomain' flag to add subdomains.
- '--alive' and '--subdomain' flags can be used simultaneously.
- All links will be saved in a file, and the file will be created in the current working directory.
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 including 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:
- Install or update the testing/coverage tools
pip install codecov pytest pytest-cov -U
- Inside the repository run the following commands
pytest --cov=waybackpy tests/
- To report coverage run
bash <(curl -s https://codecov.io/bash) -t SECRET_CODECOV_TOKEN
You can find the tests here.
Packaging
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Increment version.
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Build package
python setup.py sdist bdist_wheel
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Sign & upload the package
twine upload -s dist/*
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License
Released under the MIT License. See license for details.