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A Python package & CLI tool that interfaces with the Wayback Machine API
⭐️ Introduction
Waybackpy is a Python package and a CLI tool that interfaces with the Wayback Machine API.
Wayback Machine has 3 client side APIs.
These three APIs can be accessed via the waybackpy either by importing it in a script or from the CLI.
🏗 Installation
Using pip, from PyPI (recommended):
pip install waybackpy
Using conda, from conda-forge (recommended):
See also waybackpy feedstock, maintainers are @rafaelrdealmeida, @labriunesp and @akamhy.
conda install -c conda-forge waybackpy
Install directly from this git repository (NOT recommended):
pip install git+https://github.com/akamhy/waybackpy.git
🐳 Docker Image
Docker Hub : https://hub.docker.com/r/secsi/waybackpy
Docker image is automatically updated on every release by Regulary and Automatically Updated Docker Images (RAUDI).
RAUDI is a tool by SecSI (https://secsi.io), an Italian cybersecurity startup.
🚀 Usage
As a Python package
Save API aka SavePageNow
>>> 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)
Availability API
>>> 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)
>>>
>>> availability_api.oldest()
https://web.archive.org/web/19981111184551/http://google.com:80/
>>>
>>> availability_api.newest()
https://web.archive.org/web/20220118150444/https://www.google.com/
>>>
>>> availability_api.near(year=2010, month=10, day=10, hour=10)
https://web.archive.org/web/20101010101708/http://www.google.com/
CDX API aka CDXServerAPI
>>> 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/
Documentation is at https://github.com/akamhy/waybackpy/wiki/Python-package-docs.
As a CLI tool
Demo video on asciinema.org, you can copy the text from video:
CLI documentation is at https://github.com/akamhy/waybackpy/wiki/CLI-docs.
🛡 License
Copyright (c) 2020-2022 Akash Mahanty Et al.
Released under the MIT License. See license for details.