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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
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- As a python package
- 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()
- With CLI
- As a python package
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
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
Try this out in your browser @ https://repl.it/@akamhy/WaybackPySaveExample
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/
Try this out in your browser @ https://repl.it/@akamhy/WaybackPyOldestExample
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/
Try this out in your browser @ https://repl.it/@akamhy/WaybackPyNewestExample
Receiving 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"
github_url = "https://github.com/"
github_wayback_obj = Url(github_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 = github_wayback_obj.near(year=2010)
print(github_archive_near_2010)
https://web.archive.org/web/20100719134402/http://github.com/
github_archive_near_2011_may = github_wayback_obj.near(year=2011, month=5)
print(github_archive_near_2011_may)
https://web.archive.org/web/20110519185447/https://github.com/
github_archive_near_2015_january_26 = github_wayback_obj.near(
year=2015, month=1, day=26
)
print(github_archive_near_2015_january_26)
https://web.archive.org/web/20150127031159/https://github.com
github_archive_near_2018_4_july_9_2_am = github_wayback_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 library doesn't supports seconds yet. You are encourged 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"
archive_count = waybackpy.Url(
url=URL,
user_agent=UA
).total_archives()
print(archive_count) # total_archives() returns an int
2440
Try this out in your browser @ https://repl.it/@akamhy/WaybackPyTotalArchivesExample
With the CLI
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
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
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
Tests
Dependency
- None, just python standard libraries (re, json, urllib, argparse and datetime). Both python 2 and 3 are supported :)