wayback VS wayback-machine-downloader

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.

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/*

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.

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...

Query the Internet Archive’s CDX server for this info.

https://github.com/internetarchive/wayback/blob/master/wayba...

Archive.org has a cdx server you can quickly request information from: https://github.com/internetarchive/wayback/tree/master/wayback-cdx-server

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 API to get a list of all versions of the page (https://github.com/internetarchive/wayback/tree/master/wayback-cdx-server#basic-usage).

I just found this https://github.com/hartator/wayback-machine-downloader

anyone have anything similarly interesting/cool/niche-useful ?

Send ArchiveTeam the link on IRC or here and we can save it to archive.org, then later you can use wayback-machine-downloader to grab it from archive.org.

https://github.com/hartator/wayback-machine-downloader

This is where it gets tricky, you need to download the code from the wayback machine and he was able to do that by following these steps: https://github.com/hartator/wayback-machine-downloader

Not sure if it will work for twitter, but I have used wayback-machine-downloader to batch download stuff.

Adding to archive.org, there is a github repo to fetch website data. You can give a try too. Here is the repo link

Edit: Good news! I found a solution that saved me. I was able to download the full website (including images, JS, and CSS files) using this tool: https://github.com/hartator/wayback-machine-downloader

Edit: Thank you to everyone who suggested the Wayback Machine Downloader! It saved the day and allowed me to download the full website, including images, JS, and CSS files.

I've used https://github.com/hartator/wayback-machine-downloader but it sometimes messes up CSS badly