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wabarc/archive.is

A Golang and Command-Line Interface to Archive.is

This package is a command-line tool named archive.is saving webpage to archive.today, it also supports imports as a Golang package for a programmatic. Please report all bugs and issues on Github.

Installation

From source (^Go 1.12):

go get github.com/wabarc/archive.is

From gobinaries.com:

curl -sf https://gobinaries.com/wabarc/archive.is/cmd/archive.is | sh

From releases

Usage

Command-line

$ archive.is https://www.google.com https://www.bbc.com

Output:
version: 0.0.1
date: unknown

https://www.google.com => https://archive.li/JYVMT
https://www.bbc.com => https://archive.li/HjqQV

Go package interfaces

package main

import (
        "fmt"

        "github.com/wabarc/archive.is/pkg"
)

func main() {
        links := []string{"https://www.google.com", "https://www.bbc.com"}
        arc := &is.Archiver{}
        got, _ := arc.Wayback(links)
        for orig, dest := range got {
                fmt.Println(orig, "=>", dest)
        }
}

// Output:
// https://www.google.com => https://archive.li/JYVMT
// https://www.bbc.com => https://archive.li/HjqQV

Access Tor Hidden Service

archive.today providing Tor Hidden Service to saving webpage, and it's preferred to access Tor Hidden Service, access http://archive.today if Tor Hidden Service is unavailable.

By default, the program will dial a proxy using tor socks port 127.0.0.1:9050, use TOR_HOST and TOR_SOCKS_PORT specified a different host and port

It'll look up tor executable file if dial socks proxy failed, and start it to dial proxy.

FAQ

archive.today is unavailable?

Archive.today may have enforced a strictly CAPTCHA policy, causing an exception to the request.

Solve:

Find cf_clearance item from cookies, and set as system environmental variable ARCHIVE_COOKIE, such as ARCHIVE_COOKIE=cf_clearance=ab170e4acc49bbnsaff8687212d2cdb987e5b798-1234542375-KDUKCHU

License

This software is released under the terms of the GNU General Public License v3.0. See the LICENSE file for details.