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Python library and CLI for archiving URLs on popular services like Wayback Machine

Project description

pgark

Python library and CLI for archiving URLs on popular services like Wayback Machine

Basically a fork of the great pastpages/savepagenow

How to use

Install with:

$ pip install pgark

The available subcommands are:

  check  Check if there is a snapshot of [URL] on the [-s/--service].
  save   Attempt to save a snapshot of [URL] using the [-s/--service].

(for now, only the Wayback Machine service is implemented, so ignore -s flag)

Saving a snapshot of a URL

$ pgark save whitehouse.gov
http://web.archive.org/web/20200904230109/https://www.whitehouse.gov/

To get the JSON response with pgark-snapshot metadata and the Wayback Machine API job status response, pass in -j/--json flag:

$ pgark -j save whitehouse.gov
  {
    "snapshot_url": "http://web.archive.org/web/20200904230109/https://www.whitehouse.gov/",
    "...": "...",
    "server_payload": {
      "status": "success",
      "duration_sec": 10.638,
      "job_id": "443e89c2-fd3e-4d01-bd35-abfccc3a124a",
      "...": "..."
    }
  }

See an example of the Wayback Machine's full JSON response in: examples/web.archive.org/job-save-success.json

Checking if a URL is already snapshotted

For a given URL, to get the latest available snapshot for a URL:

$ pgark check whitehouse.gov

http://web.archive.org/web/20200904180914/https://www.whitehouse.gov/

To get the JSON response from the Wayback Machine API, pass in the -j/--json flag:

$ pgark check -j whitehouse.gov
{
    "snapshot_url": "http://web.archive.org/web/20200904180914/https://www.whitehouse.gov/",
    "server_payload": {
    "archived_snapshots": {
      "closest": {
        "timestamp": "20200904180914",
        "status": "200",
        "available": true,
        "url": "http://web.archive.org/web/20200904180914/https://www.whitehouse.gov/"
      }
    },
    "url": "whitehouse.gov"
  }
}

Project status

Just spitballing. Will probably just return to forking savepagenow and adding any changes/fixes.

See CHANGELOG for more details

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Development notes

To get setup:

$ make init

To run tests:

$ make test

To freeze Pipfile.lock and resync with setup.py

$ make freeze

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