A Python package that interfaces with the Internet Archive's Wayback Machine API. Archive pages and retrieve archived pages easily.
Project description
Python package & CLI tool that interfaces with the Wayback Machine API
Installation
Using pip:
pip install waybackpy
Install directly from GitHub:
pip install git+https://github.com/akamhy/waybackpy.git
Usage
As a python package
>>> import waybackpy
>>> url = "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multivariable_calculus"
>>> user_agent = "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 5.1; rv:40.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/40.0"
>>> wayback = waybackpy.Url(url, user_agent)
>>> archive = wayback.save()
>>> str(archive)
'https://web.archive.org/web/20210104173410/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multivariable_calculus'
>>> archive.timestamp
datetime.datetime(2021, 1, 4, 17, 35, 12, 691741)
>>> oldest_archive = wayback.oldest()
>>> str(oldest_archive)
'https://web.archive.org/web/20050422130129/http://en.wikipedia.org:80/wiki/Multivariable_calculus'
>>> archive_close_to_2010_feb = wayback.near(year=2010, month=2)
>>> str(archive_close_to_2010_feb)
'https://web.archive.org/web/20100215001541/http://en.wikipedia.org:80/wiki/Multivariable_calculus'
>>> str(wayback.newest())
'https://web.archive.org/web/20210104173410/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multivariable_calculus'
Full Python package documentation can be found at https://github.com/akamhy/waybackpy/wiki/Python-package-docs.
As a CLI tool
$ waybackpy --save --url "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_media" --user_agent "my-unique-user-agent"
https://web.archive.org/web/20200719062108/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_media
$ waybackpy --oldest --url "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Humanoid" --user_agent "my-unique-user-agent"
https://web.archive.org/web/20040415020811/http://en.wikipedia.org:80/wiki/Humanoid
$ waybackpy --newest --url "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Remote_sensing" --user_agent "my-unique-user-agent"
https://web.archive.org/web/20201221130522/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Remote_sensing
$ waybackpy --total --url "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linux_kernel" --user_agent "my-unique-user-agent"
1904
$ waybackpy --known_urls --url akamhy.github.io --user_agent "my-unique-user-agent"
https://akamhy.github.io
https://akamhy.github.io/assets/js/scale.fix.js
https://akamhy.github.io/favicon.ico
https://akamhy.github.io/robots.txt
https://akamhy.github.io/waybackpy/
'akamhy.github.io-10-urls-m2a24y.txt' saved in current working directory
Full CLI documentation can be found at https://github.com/akamhy/waybackpy/wiki/CLI-docs.
License
Released under the MIT License. See license for details.
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