scrapy-wayback-middleware 0.3.0

Scrapy middleware for submitting URLs to the Internet Archive Wayback Machine

Scrapy Wayback Middleware

Middleware for submitting all scraped response URLs to the Internet Archive Wayback Machine for archival.

Installation

pip install scrapy-wayback-middleware

Setup

Add scrapy_wayback_middleware.WaybackMiddleware to your project's SPIDER_MIDDLEWARES settings. By default, the middleware will make GET requests to web.archive.org/save/{URL}, but if the WAYBACK_MIDDLEWARE_POST setting is True then it will make POST requests to pragma.archivelab.org instead.

Configuration

To configure custom behavior for certain methods, subclass WaybackMiddleware and override the get_item_urls method to pull additional links to archive from individual items or handle_wayback to change how responses from the Wayback Machine are handled. The WAYBACK_MIDDLEWARE_POST can be set to True to adjust request behavior.

Duplicate Filtering

In order to avoid sending duplicate requests with WAYBACK_MIDDLEWARE_POST set to False, you'll need to either include web.archive.org in your spider's allowed_domains property (if specified) or disable scrapy.spidermiddlewares.offsite.OffsiteMiddleware in your settings.

Rate Limits

While neither endpoint returns headers indicating specific rate limits, the GET endpoint at web.archive.org/save has a rate limit of 25 requests/minute, resetting each minute. The middleware is configured to wait for 60 seconds whenever it sees a 429 error code to handle this.