vine_wayback

vine_wayback tries to retrieve a Vine video and its metadata from the Wayback Machine. If the Vine can be found in the Wayback Machine it will be written to disk as an MP4, JSON and standalone HTML file which you can use to view the Vine.

Install

pip install vine_wayback

Run

When you install vine_wayback you should get the vine_wayback command line utility installed as well:

vine_wayback https://vine.co/v/iuKJ7JjF2Jt
💾 saved https://vine.co/v/iuKJ7JjF2Jt to /Users/edsu/Projects/vine-wayback/iuKJ7JjF2Jt

This will create a directory like:

iuKJ7JjF2Jt
├── index.html
├── iuKJ7JjF2Jt.json
└── iuKJ7JjF2Jt.mp4

Import

Maybe you want to make this part of a script that downloads a bunch of vines. You can use the download() function to download the Vine where you want to:

import vine_wayback

vine_wayback.download("https://vine.co/v/iuKJ7JjF2Jt", output_dir="my/dir", quiet=True)

Or you can work with the metadata and video directly:

import vine_wayback

vine = vine_wayback.vine("https://vine.co/v/iuKJ7JjF2Jt")

# print some of the metadata
print(vine['twitter:title'])

# save the video
open('media.mp4', 'wb').write(vine['video_raw'])