IA command-line tool wayback plugin.

About

ia_wayback is a simple, minimal Python wrapper around Internet Archive's Wayback Machine APIs, which are described here:

http://archive.org/help/wayback_api.php

For now the functionality is limited to a check if a user-specified URL is available in Internet Archive's Wayback Machine. The CLI tool returns comma-delimited output with info on the availability of a URL in Wayback. the following items are returned (if available):

The source URL (as specified by the user).
A True/ False flag that indicates whether the URL is available in Wayback.
The URL of the most recent snapshot in Wayback.
The status of the snapshot (what does this mean, exactly?)
Snapshot timestamp

Command line use

Usage

usage: ia_wayback.py <url>

Positional arguments

url : input url

Example 1

ia_wayback.py www.projectmoonbase.com

Which gives the following output:

www.projectmoonbase.com,True,http://web.archive.org/web/20141116085509/http://www.projectmoonbase.com/,200,20141116085509

Example 2

ia_wayback.py http://www.bitsgalore.org/2014/11/13/Demise-Of-Dutch-Blogosphere/

This results in:

http://www.bitsgalore.org/2014/11/13/Demise-Of-Dutch-Blogosphere/,False,,,

In the second example, the page was not found in Wayback, so the last 3 output items are empty.

Warning

This code has had very limited testing, and doesn't have any error trapping whatsoever. I mainly wrote this to get more familiar with the Internet Archive's Wayback API. Use at your own risk!

jjjake/iawayback