Archive Now (archivenow)

A Tool To Push Web Resources Into Web Archives

Archive Now (archivenow) currently is configured to push resources into six public web archives. You can easily add more archives by writing a new archive handler (e.g., myarchive_handler.py) and place it inside the folder "handlers".

As explained below, this library can be used through:

Command Line Interface (CLI)
A Web Service
A Docker Container
Python

Installing

The latest release of archivenow can be installed using pip:

$ pip install archivenow

The latest development version containing changes not yet released can be installed from source:

$ git clone git@github.com:oduwsdl/archivenow.git
$ cd archivenow
$ pip install -r requirements.txt
$ pip install ./

CLI USAGE

Usage of sub-commands in archivenow can be accessed through providing the -h or --help flag, like any of the below.

$ archivenow -h
usage: archivenow.py [-h] [--mg] [--wc] [--cc] [--cc_api_key [CC_API_KEY]]
                     [--is] [--st] [--ia] [--warc [WARC]] [-v] [--all]
                     [--server] [--host [HOST]] [--agent [AGENT]]
                     [--port [PORT]]
                     [URI]

positional arguments:
  URI                   URI of a web resource

optional arguments:
  -h, --help            show this help message and exit
  --mg                  Use Megalodon.jp
  --wc                  Use The WebCite Archive
  --cc                  Use The Perma.cc Archive
  --cc_api_key [CC_API_KEY]
                        An API KEY is required by The Perma.cc Archive
  --is                  Use The Archive.is
  --st                  Use The Archive.st
  --ia                  Use The Internet Archive
  --warc [WARC]         Generate WARC file
  -v, --version         Report the version of archivenow
  --all                 Use all possible archives
  --server              Run archiveNow as a Web Service
  --host [HOST]         A server address
  --agent [AGENT]       Use "wget" or "squidwarc" for WARC generation
  --port [PORT]         A port number to run a Web Service

Examples

Example 1

To save the web page (www.foxnews.com) in the Internet Archive:

$ archivenow --ia www.foxnews.com
https://web.archive.org/web/20170209135625/http://www.foxnews.com

Example 2

By default, the web page (e.g., www.foxnews.com) will be saved in the Internet Archive if no optional arguments are provided:

$ archivenow www.foxnews.com
https://web.archive.org/web/20170215164835/http://www.foxnews.com

Example 3

To save the web page (www.foxnews.com) in the Internet Archive (archive.org) and Archive.is:

$ archivenow --ia --is www.foxnews.com
https://web.archive.org/web/20170209140345/http://www.foxnews.com
http://archive.is/fPVyc

Example 4

To save the web page (https://nypost.com/) in all configured web archives. In addition to preserving the page in all configured archives, this command will also locally create a WARC file:

$ archivenow --all https://nypost.com/ --cc_api_key $Your-Perma-CC-API-Key
http://archive.is/dcnan
https://perma.cc/53CC-5ST8
https://web.archive.org/web/20181002081445/https://nypost.com/
https://megalodon.jp/2018-1002-1714-24/https://nypost.com:443/
http://www.webcitation.org/72ramyxT2
https://Archive.st/archive/2018/10/nypost.com/h5m1/nypost.com/index.html
https_nypost.com__96ec2300.warc

Example 5

To download the web page (https://nypost.com/) and create a WARC file:

$ archivenow --warc=mypage --agent=wget https://nypost.com/
mypage.warc

Server

You can run archivenow as a web service. You can specify the server address and/or the port number (e.g., --host localhost --port 12345)

$ archivenow --server

Running on http://0.0.0.0:12345/ (Press CTRL+C to quit)

Example 6

To save the web page (www.foxnews.com) in The Internet Archive through the web service:

$ curl -i http://0.0.0.0:12345/ia/www.foxnews.com

    HTTP/1.0 200 OK
    Content-Type: application/json
    Content-Length: 95
    Server: Werkzeug/0.11.15 Python/2.7.10
    Date: Tue, 02 Oct 2018 08:20:18 GMT

    {
      "results": [
        "https://web.archive.org/web/20181002082007/http://www.foxnews.com"
      ]
    }

Example 7

To save the web page (www.foxnews.com) in all configured archives though the web service:

$ curl -i http://0.0.0.0:12345/all/www.foxnews.com

    HTTP/1.0 200 OK
    Content-Type: application/json
    Content-Length: 385
    Server: Werkzeug/0.11.15 Python/2.7.10
    Date: Tue, 02 Oct 2018 08:23:53 GMT

    {
      "results": [
        "Error (The Perma.cc Archive): An API Key is required ",
        "http://archive.is/ukads",
        "https://web.archive.org/web/20181002082007/http://www.foxnews.com",
        "http://Archive.st/ikxq",
        "Error (Megalodon.jp): We can not obtain this page because the time limit has been reached or for technical ... ",
        "http://www.webcitation.org/72rbKsX8B"
      ]
    }

Example 8

Because an API Key is required by Perma.cc, the HTTP request should be as follows:

$ curl -i http://127.0.0.1:12345/all/https://nypost.com/?cc_api_key=$Your-Perma-CC-API-Key

Or use only Perma.cc:

$ curl -i http://127.0.0.1:12345/cc/https://nypost.com/?cc_api_key=$Your-Perma-CC-API-Key

Running as a Docker Container

$ docker image pull oduwsdl/archivenow

Different ways to run archivenow

$ docker container run -it --rm oduwsdl/archivenow -h

Accessible at 127.0.0.1:12345:

$ docker container run -p 12345:12345 -it --rm oduwsdl/archivenow --server --host 0.0.0.0

Accessible at 127.0.0.1:22222:

$ docker container run -p 22222:11111 -it --rm oduwsdl/archivenow --server --port 11111 --host 0.0.0.0

To save the web page (http://www.cnn.com) in The Internet Archive

$ docker container run -it --rm oduwsdl/archivenow --ia http://www.cnn.com

Python Usage

>>> from archivenow import archivenow

Example 9

To save the web page (www.foxnews.com) in The WebCite Archive:

>>> archivenow.push("www.foxnews.com","wc")
['http://www.webcitation.org/6o9LTiDz3']

Example 10

To save the web page (www.foxnews.com) in all configured archives:

>>> archivenow.push("www.foxnews.com","all")
['https://web.archive.org/web/20170209145930/http://www.foxnews.com','http://archive.is/oAjuM','http://www.webcitation.org/6o9LcQoVV','Error (The Perma.cc Archive): An API KEY is required]

Example 11

To save the web page (www.foxnews.com) in The Perma.cc:

>>> archivenow.push("www.foxnews.com","cc",{"cc_api_key":"$YOUR-Perma-cc-API-KEY"})
['https://perma.cc/8YYC-C7RM']

Example 12

To start the server from Python do the following. The server/port number can be passed (e.g, start(port=1111, host='localhost')):

>>> archivenow.start()

    2017-02-09 15:02:37
    Running on http://127.0.0.1:12345
    (Press CTRL+C to quit)

Configuring a new archive or removing existing one

Additional archives may be added by creating a handler file in the "handlers" directory.

For example, if I want to add a new archive named "My Archive", I would create a file "ma_handler.py" and store it in the folder "handlers". The "ma" will be the archive identifier, so to push a web page (e.g., www.cnn.com) to this archive through the Python code, I should write:

archivenow.push("www.cnn.com","ma")

In the file "ma_handler.py", the name of the class must be "MA_handler". This class must have at least one function called "push" which has one argument. See the existing handler files for examples on how to organized a newly configured archive handler.

Removing an archive can be done by one of the following options:

Removing the archive handler file from the folder "handlers"
Renaming the archive handler file to other name that does not end with "_handler.py"
Setting the variable "enabled" to "False" inside the handler file

Notes

The Internet Archive (IA) sets a time gap of at least two minutes between creating different copies of the "same" resource.

For example, if you send a request to IA to capture (www.cnn.com) at 10:00pm, IA will create a new copy (C) of this URI. IA will then return C for all requests to the archive for this URI received until 10:02pm. Using this same submission procedure for Archive.is requires a time gap of five minutes.

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