waybackpy

Waybackpy is a Python library that interfaces with the Internet Archive's Wayback Machine API. Archive pages and retrieve archived pages easily.

Table of contents

• Installation

• Usage

  • Saving an url using save()
  • Receiving the oldest archive for an URL Using oldest()
  • Receiving the recent most/newest archive for an URL using newest()
  • Receiving archive close to a specified year, month, day, hour, and minute using near()
  • Get the content of webpage using get()
  • Count total archives for an URL using total_archives()

• Tests

• Dependency

• License

Installation

Using pip:

pip install waybackpy

Usage

Capturing aka Saving an url using save()

import waybackpy

new_archive_url = waybackpy.Url(

    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"
    
).save()

print(new_archive_url)

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

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Receiving the oldest archive for an URL using oldest()

import waybackpy

oldest_archive_url = waybackpy.Url(

    "https://www.google.com/",
    "Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.8; rv:40.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/40.0"
    
).oldest()

print(oldest_archive_url)

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

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Receiving the newest archive for an URL using newest()

import waybackpy

newest_archive_url = waybackpy.Url(

    "https://www.facebook.com/",
    "Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.10; rv:39.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/39.0"
    
).newest()

print(newest_archive_url)

https://web.archive.org/web/20200714013225/https://www.facebook.com/

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Receiving archive close to a specified year, month, day, hour, and minute using near()

import waybackpy
# retriving the the closest archive from a specified year.
# supported argumnets are year,month,day,hour and minute
target_url = waybackpy.Url(https://www.facebook.com/", "Any-User-Agent")
archive_near_year = target_url.near(year=2010)
print(archive_near_year)

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

Please note that if you only specify the year, the current month and day are default arguments for month and day respectively. Just putting the year parameter would not return the archive closer to January but the current month you are using the package. You need to specify the month "1" for January , 2 for february and so on.

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.

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)

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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"

archive_count = waybackpy.Url(
    url=URL,
    user_agent=UA
).total_archives()

print(archive_count) # total_archives() returns an int

2440

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Tests

• Here

Dependency

• None, just python standard libraries (re, json, urllib and datetime). Both python 2 and 3 are supported :)

License

MIT License