waybackpy

The waybackpy is python wrapper for Internet Archive 's Wayback Machine.

Usage

Capturing/Saving an url/website. Using save().

waybackpy.save(url, UA=user_agent)

import waybackpy
# Capturing a new archive on wayback machine.
# Default user-agent (UA) is "waybackpy python package", if not specified in the call.
archived_url = waybackpy.save("https://github.com/akamhy/waybackpy", UA = "Any-User-Agent")
print(archived_url)

This should print something similar to the following archived url:

https://web.archive.org/web/20200504141153/https://github.com/akamhy/waybackpy

Retiving the oldest archive for an url. Using oldest().

waybackpy.oldest(url, UA=user_agent)

import waybackpy
# retriving the oldest archive on wayback machine.
# Default user-agent (UA) is "waybackpy python package", if not specified in the call.
oldest_archive = waybackpy.oldest("https://www.google.com/", UA = "Any-User-Agent")
print(oldest_archive)

This returns the oldest available archive for https://google.com (Check it out! It's really fascinating! and follow those blue links.)

http://web.archive.org/web/19981111184551/http://google.com:80/

Retiving the recent most/newest archive for an url. Using newest().

waybackpy.newest(url, UA=user_agent)

import waybackpy
# retriving the newest archive on wayback machine.
# Default user-agent (UA) is "waybackpy python package", if not specified in the call.
newest_archive = waybackpy.newest("https://www.microsoft.com/en-us", UA = "Any-User-Agent")
print(newest_archive)

This returns the newest available archive for https://www.microsoft.com/en-us, somthing just like this:

http://web.archive.org/web/20200429033402/https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/

Retiving archive close to a specified year, month, day, hour and minute!. Using near().

waybackpy.newest(url, year=2020, month=1, day=1, hour=1, minute=1, UA=user_agent)

import waybackpy
# retriving the the closest archive from a specified year.
# Default user-agent (UA) is "waybackpy python package", if not specified in the call.
# supported argumnets are year,month,day,hour and minute
archive_near_year = waybackpy.near("https://www.facebook.com/", year=2010, UA ="Any-User-Agent")
print(archive_near_year)

returns : http://web.archive.org/web/20100504071154/http://www.facebook.com/

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