wayback mit Homebrew installieren

Projektlinks

• Homepage
• Repository

Befehle und Aliase

• wayback

Projektgeschichte

The public GitHub repository was created in June 2020, and the project changelog records its first 0.0.1 release on 2020-07-05. The documentation describes Wayback as an open-source Go application with a modular architecture for single-page and collection archiving.

Over the 2020-2024 changelog, Wayback accumulated integrations beyond a simple Internet Archive submitter. By 2024, the project documented integrations with Internet Archive, archive.today, Telegraph, IPFS, Ghost Archive, multiple chat systems, datastore/playback features, Tor hidden-service support, and Prometheus metrics.

Adoptionsgeschichte

Wayback's adoption is visible mostly in package-manager and self-hosting communities rather than in a standards process. The repository and documentation publish direct release binaries and installer paths, while the batch metadata lists packages in Homebrew, Alpine, Fedora, Nix, and openSUSE.

Wie es verwendet wird

Typical CLI usage is to pass one or more URLs to `wayback`, optionally choosing backends such as `--ia` for Internet Archive, `--is` for archive.today, `--ip` for IPFS, or `--ph` for Telegraph. The same executable can also run as a daemon for Telegram, web, Mastodon, Twitter, Discord, Slack, or IRC workflows.

In package-nerd terms, Wayback is useful when archiving is part of a shell pipeline, bot, release process, OSINT workflow, or preservation job. Its config file doubles as a place for service tokens and backend settings, which is why the upstream CLI documents `./wayback.conf`, `~/wayback.conf`, and `/etc/wayback.conf`.

Warum Paket-Nerds sich dafür interessieren

Wayback matters because it wraps several fragile web-preservation endpoints behind a single packaged binary. For users who care about reproducible URLs, dead-link mitigation, and automated citation capture, it provides a Unix-friendly alternative to clicking through web forms.

Zeitleiste

• 2020-06: GitHub repository created.
• 2020-07-05: 0.0.1 and 0.0.2 appear in the upstream changelog.
• 2021: Frequent 0.x releases expand the service and publishing surface.
• 2023-03-21: 0.19.x releases appear shortly after the public documentation dates.
• 2024-07-02: 0.20.1 is published as the latest changeloged release.

Related projects

• Wayback is related to the Internet Archive Wayback Machine, archive.today, Ghost Archive, IPFS, Telegraph, Tor hidden services, and chat-bot integrations used to submit or publish archive results.

Quellen

• https://docs.wabarc.eu.org/
• https://docs.wabarc.eu.org/changelog/
• https://docs.wabarc.eu.org/command-line/
• https://github.com/wabarc/wayback
• input source_facts.package-manager