{"categories":[{"label":"WWW/HTTP","url":"https://skillfed.io/packages/category/internet-www-http/2"}],"enrichment":{"capability":"Waybackpy provides Python and CLI access to the Internet Archive's Wayback Machine APIs\u2014save pages, retrieve snapshots, and query historical web archives via SavePageNow, CDX Server, and Availability APIs.","skillfed_tags":["web-archiving","internet-archive","cli-tool"],"use_cases":["Archive a live web page to the Wayback Machine and retrieve its archive URL for documentation or citation.","Query historical snapshots of a website to find when content changed or to retrieve a specific version from a known date.","Automate bulk archiving of multiple URLs or iterate over all snapshots of a site within a date range.","Build a CLI tool or script that lets non-developers search and retrieve archived web pages without API knowledge.","Verify that a page was archived at a specific time or retrieve the oldest available snapshot of a URL."],"what_it_does":"Waybackpy is a Python library and command-line tool that wraps three Internet Archive Wayback Machine APIs: SavePageNow (to archive a live page), CDX Server (to query historical snapshots with filtering), and Availability (to find oldest, newest, or near-date snapshots). It lets you programmatically save web pages to the archive, retrieve snapshots from specific dates, and iterate over all archived versions of a URL without writing raw HTTP requests.\n\nThe package is pure Python, depends only on click, requests, and urllib3, and supports Python 3.6 and later. It works both as an importable module for scripts and as a standalone CLI tool. The library is marked Production/Stable but has been dormant since early 2022, meaning it is unlikely to receive updates for new Wayback Machine API changes, though it remains functional for standard archiving and retrieval tasks.","worth_installing":"Yes, if you need to interact with the Wayback Machine APIs and don't require active maintenance. The package is stable, has no known vulnerabilities, low install friction, and a permissive license. However, be aware that it has been dormant since 2022\u2014if the Wayback Machine APIs change significantly, you may need to fork or patch it yourself. For read-heavy use it is low-risk; for heavy archiving workloads, test thoroughly first."},"id":"waybackpy","links":{"html":"https://skillfed.io/packages/waybackpy","md":"https://skillfed.io/packages/waybackpy.md","pypi":"https://pypi.org/project/waybackpy/"},"maintenance":{"status":"dormant"},"meta":{"latest_release":"2022-03-15","license_spdx":null,"license_treatment":"permissive","name":"waybackpy","python_support":"supports_current","summary":"Python package that interfaces with the Internet Archive's Wayback Machine APIs. Archive pages and retrieve archived pages easily."},"popularity":{"monthly_downloads":4861941,"position":2212,"tier":"top_5000"},"security":{"n_vulnerabilities":0},"version":"3.0.6"}