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wayback
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Scraping Data From Past: A Step-by-Step Tutorial
In this tutorial, we will explore how to scrape data from the past using the Wayback Machine API. We'll be using Python and the requests library to make HTTP requests and retrieve archived versions of web pages. The code provided demonstrates a basic implementation of scraping historical data from a list of URLs within a specified date range.
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Subdomain * wildcard search
A bit of context: I do a lot of archive digging with Apple's website. For the longest time, they hosted large files through Akamai. Most URLs looked something like this: http://a2032.g.akamai.net/5/2032/51/6cafb32dc21f74/1a1a1aaa2198c627970773d80669d84574a8d80d3cb12453c02589f25382f26493036bda4ebd305fd241a71b92f365ca/appleworks62_box.eps.hqx Unfortunately, those files shifted around from subdomain to subdomain (one period of time it was under a2032.g.akamai.net, another might be a1008.g.akamai.net) so finding all copies of a specific file was a pain in the ass. I recently learned that the IA has an API for the Wayback's Server that allows way more filtering than the web UI does. So to find every *.g.akamai.net URL they have archived, I used: http://web.archive.org/cdx/search/cdx?url=*.g.akamai.net/*
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Managed to work with the Waybackmachine-API to get a backup of a much loved site
For the following step, you will need the Wayback Machine's CDX API, the documentation is here:https://github.com/internetarchive/wayback/tree/master/wayback-cdx-serverHowever, please note that there are errors in the documentation regarding the regex filtering syntax.
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Take More Screenshots
archive.org geocities scrapes go back to 1996, so it is plausible it could have survived:
https://web.archive.org/cdx/search/cdx?url=geocities.com&mat...
If you ever remember any of the details, the CDX API can probably help.
https://github.com/internetarchive/wayback/blob/master/wayba...
- Is there any way to go further into results for pages with more than 10,000 captures?
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Ask HN: How do RSS readers handle items missing pubDates?
Query the Internet Archive’s CDX server for this info.
https://github.com/internetarchive/wayback/blob/master/wayba...
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Web scraping from https://web.archive.org/ (wayback machine)
Archive.org has a cdx server you can quickly request information from: https://github.com/internetarchive/wayback/tree/master/wayback-cdx-server
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Possible to download a file from archive.org?
Are the contents of these WARCs available as part of the Wayback Machine itself? If so, you might be able to use the CDX server to discover and download the content.
- Wayback Machine Downloader – Download an Entire Website from the Wayback Machine
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easy way to get images off wayback machine?
Wayback API to get a list of all versions of the page (https://github.com/internetarchive/wayback/tree/master/wayback-cdx-server#basic-usage).
png-db
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Show HN: Rem: Remember Everything (open source)
Long time ago, I did sth similar, i.e. made a screenshot every few seconds, with the purpose to automatically extract information from it, e.g. how long I was using some app.
I wrote a PNG DB to split PNG images into many blocks and have each block stored in a DB. If there are several equal blocks, it is only stored once. Via a hash table, the lookup for such blocks is made fast. With this PNG DB, I have a compression rate of about 400-500%. https://github.com/albertz/png-db
Some of the scripts I used to analyze the screenshots are here, but in the end, it was not really so successful and reliable: https://github.com/albertz/screenshooting
In the end, that lead to another project, where I just was storing that information more directly, i.e. what application was in the foreground, what file was open. https://github.com/albertz/timecapture
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Take More Screenshots
See my other post here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34566857
I wrote a DB for PNG files which deduplicates PNG blocks (only exact matchs): https://github.com/albertz/png-db
What are some alternatives?
wayback-machine-spn-scripts - Bash scripts which interact with Internet Archive Wayback Machine's Save Page Now
cloc - cloc counts blank lines, comment lines, and physical lines of source code in many programming languages.
ArchiveBox - 🗃 Open source self-hosted web archiving. Takes URLs/browser history/bookmarks/Pocket/Pinboard/etc., saves HTML, JS, PDFs, media, and more...
mgcapture - Lightweight application to capture screenshots on interval. Runs in the background.
savepagenow - A simple Python wrapper and command-line interface for archive.org’s "Save Page Now" capturing service
electron-vlog - Take video recordings, screenshots and time-lapses of your Electron app with ease
waybackpack - Download the entire Wayback Machine archive for a given URL.
luau - A fast, small, safe, gradually typed embeddable scripting language derived from Lua
warrick - Recover lost websites from the Web Infrastructure
diaryman - Lazy (wo)man's CLI diary manager
wayback-machine-downloader - Download an entire website from the Wayback Machine.
ShareX - ShareX is a free and open source program that lets you capture or record any area of your screen and share it with a single press of a key. It also allows uploading images, text or other types of files to many supported destinations you can choose from.