archiveorg

About

archive.org is a golang package for archiving web pages via archive.org.

Please be mindful and responsible and go easy on them, we want archive.org to last forever!

Created by Jay Taylor.

Also see: archive.is golang package

TODO

• Finish migrating to archive.org API
• Consider unifying to single binary
• Add id_, js_, cs_, etc info to golang pkg.

Related resources:

• http://ws-dl.blogspot.com/2013/07/2013-07-15-wayback-machine-upgrades.html
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:Using_the_Wayback_Machine

Requirements

• Go version 1.9 or newer

Installation

go get jaytaylor.com/archive.org/...

Usage

Command-line programs

archive.org <url>

Archive a fresh new copy of an HTML page

archive.org-snapshots <url>

Search for existing page snapshots

Go package interfaces

Search for Existing Snapshots

capture.go:

package main

import (
	"fmt"

	"github.com/jaytaylor/archive.org"
)

var captureURL = "https://jaytaylor.com/"

func main() {
	archiveURL, err := archiveorg.Capture(captureURL, archiveorg.DefaultRequestTimeout)
	if err != nil {
		panic(err)
	}
	fmt.Printf("Successfully archived %v via archive.org: %v\n", captureURL, archiveURL)
}

// Output:
//
// Successfully archived https://jaytaylor.com/ via archive.org: https://archive.is/i2PiW

search.go:

package main

import (
    "fmt"

    "jaytaylor.com/archive.org"
)

func main() {
    u := "http://blog.sendhub.com/post/16800984141/switching-to-heroku-a-django-app-story"

    hits, err := archiveorg.Search(u, archiveorg.DefaultRequestTimeout)
    if err != nil {
        panic(fmt.Errorf("Search error: %s", err))
    }
    fmt.Printf("num: %v\n", len(hits))
    for _, hit := range hits {
        fmt.Printf("hit: %+v\n", hit)
    }
}

// Output:
//
// num: 3
// hit: {URL:https://web.archive.org/web/20160304012638/http://blog.sendhub.com/post/16800984141/switching-to-heroku-a-django-app-story Reason:webwidecrawlhackernews00000hackernews StatusCode:301 Timestamp:2016-03-04 01:26:38 +0000 UTC}
// hit: {URL:https://web.archive.org/web/20120202233158/http://blog.sendhub.com/post/16800984141/switching-to-heroku-a-django-app-story Reason:alexacrawls StatusCode:200 Timestamp:2012-02-02 23:31:58 +0000 UTC}
// hit: {URL:https://web.archive.org/web/20120202201233/http://blog.sendhub.com/post/16800984141/switching-to-heroku-a-django-app-story Reason:alexacrawls StatusCode:200 Timestamp:2012-02-02 20:12:33 +0000 UTC}

Running the test suite

go test ./...

License

Permissive MIT license, see the LICENSE file for more information.