Wayback Machine Saver

Python tool for archiving web pages through Internet Archive Wayback Machine

Getting Started

Prerequisites

• Python
• pipx

Installation

It's recommended to use tools like pipx to install this command-line tool.

pipx install wayback-machine-saver

Usage

Save pages

Save URLs from the input file to Internet Archive - Wayback Machine

wayback_machine_saver save-pages FILENAME

Argument

• FILENAME: filename to the file that consists of URLs to save

e.g.,

https://example.com
https://another-example.com

options

• --deliminator TEXT [default: "\n"]
• --error-log-filename TEXT [default: save-pages-error-log-"timestamp".csv]

Get latest archive urls

After the URLs have been saved, Internet Archive - Wayback Machine will snap-shot the page to their database and create a timestamp. You can access the latest one through http://web.archive.org/web/[Your URL] and it will be redirected to http://web.archive.org/web/[timestamp]/[Your URL]. This command is used to get the redirected URLs.

wayback_machine_saver get-latest-archive-urls FILENAME

Argument

• FILENAME: filename to the file that consists of URLs to retrieved

e.g.,

https://example.com
https://another-example.com

options

• --deliminator TEXT [default: "\n"]
• --output-filename TEXT [default: retrieved-urls-"timestamp".csv]]
• --error-log-filename TEXT [default: get-url-error-log-"timestamp".csv]

Configuration

Wayback Machine Saves supports configurating through environment variable. You can run export VARIABLE=VALUE before running the script to change the behavior.

• WAYBACK_MACHINE_SAVER_RETRY_TIMES
  • times to retry (default: 3)
• HTTPX_TIMEOUT
  • timeout for all GET operations (default: 10)

Contributing

See Contributing

Authors

Wei Lee weilee.rx@gmail.com

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