A tool for creating a timelapse from the Wayback Machine.
Project description
waybacklapse
A quick python project which can be run from the command line and will generate a time-lapse of a given website using the WayBack Machine.
Installation
This tool currently has dependencies on external projects and is only tested on a mac.
Install Dependencies
brew install imagemagick brew install phantomjs git clone https://github.com/fzaninotto/screenshot-as-a-service.git cd screenshot-as-a-service git checkout -t v1.1.0 npm install
Install My Source
git clone https://github.com/kpurdon/waybacklapse.git cd waybacklapse virtualenv .waybacklapse . .waybacklapse/bin/activate pip install click requests
Running The Tool
Start the screenshot-as-a-service node app
cd screenshot-as-a-service && node app
Run waybacklapse.py
Example:
The following will generate a GIF of google.com from 2000-2004 at a yearly interval at a medium lapse speed. The screenshot images will be stored in ./output/{currentdatetime}/ and the GIF will be in ./ouput/{currentdatetime}/timelapse/{somefn}.gif
TODO: More documentation on command options. TODO: Defaults on the command options. (None for now)
cd waybacklapse . .waybacklapse/bin/activate python waybacklapse.py google.com 2000 2004 output/ 75 yearly
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