# wayback mit Homebrew, apk, dnf, Nix, zypper installieren

Prüfe Installationswege, Executables, Metadaten und Sicherheitshinweise für wayback in AI-Agent-Workflows.

## Installation

```sh
sudo av install brew:wayback
```

Weitere Installationsbefehle:

### macOS

- Homebrew (100%):

```sh
brew install wayback
```

  Evidenz: local Homebrew formula metadata

### Linux

- apk (92%):

```sh
sudo apk add wayback
```

  Evidenz: Alpine Linux edge package indexes: wayback from https://dl-cdn.alpinelinux.org/alpine/edge/community/x86_64/APKINDEX.tar.gz

- dnf (92%):

```sh
sudo dnf install wayback
```

  Evidenz: Fedora Rawhide package metadata: wayback from https://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/fedora/linux/development/rawhide/Everything/x86_64/os/repodata/07190dc5ae9f35ae73866675fed6d95fe6e8d9fe22c9d7cdf85862cb2ed24a4c-primary.xml.zst

- Nix (92%):

```sh
nix profile install nixpkgs#wayback
```

  Evidenz: nixpkgs package indexes: pkgs/by-name/wa/wayback/package.nix from https://api.github.com/repos/NixOS/nixpkgs/git/trees/master?recursive=1

- zypper (92%):

```sh
sudo zypper install wayback
```

  Evidenz: openSUSE Tumbleweed package metadata: wayback from https://download.opensuse.org/tumbleweed/repo/oss/repodata/50b07339cb64c8ed4091bdbabddadc1ff5737b090e478818a195b40d8a3292861a879139b4a3987c31109699fde9fbf4a716367ddf4eef77da75f96e3193d6ed-primary.xml.zst

## Paketfakten

- **Paketschlüssel:** brew:wayback
- **Paketmanager:** Homebrew
- **Version:** 0.20.1
- **Quellzusammenfassung:** Archiving tool integrated with various archival services
- **Homepage:** <https://docs.wabarc.eu.org>
- **Repository:** <https://github.com/wabarc/wayback>
- **Zuletzt aktualisiert:** 2026-07-25T22:40:19+02:00
- **Generiert:** 2026-08-03T19:37:03+00:00

## Executables

- wayback (Alias)

## Installationsverhalten

- Bottle: nicht verfügbar

## Version und Aktualität

- Seite generiert: 2026-08-03
- Manager-Version: 0.20.1
## Projektgeschichte und Nutzung

Wayback is the main command-line and service program from the Wayback Archiver project. It sits in the web-archiving niche between one-shot SavePageNow tools and larger institutional crawlers: a user gives it URLs, and it coordinates capture, playback, publishing, and storage across archival services.

### 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


## Sicherheitshinweise

narrow executable package without higher-risk signals.

- **Geiger-Risiko:** grün / niedrig
- narrow executable package without higher-risk signals


## Configuration and credential file locations

These source-backed paths show where this package keeps local settings or durable credentials. Automic Vault can use them as review targets for secret scanning, migration, and command approval.


## Configuration files

- Unix: ./wayback.conf, ~/wayback.conf, /etc/wayback.conf

## Credential files

- Unix: ./wayback.conf, ~/wayback.conf, /etc/wayback.conf
## Andere Paketmanager-Einträge

- Nix - wayback: normalized package name match | nixpkgs package indexes: pkgs/by-name/wa/wayback/package.nix from https://api.github.com/repos/NixOS/nixpkgs/git/trees/master?recursive=1
- apk - wayback - 0.3-r2: normalized package name match | Alpine Linux edge package indexes: wayback from https://dl-cdn.alpinelinux.org/alpine/edge/community/x86_64/APKINDEX.tar.gz | X11 compatibility layer leveraging wlroots and Xwayland | https://wayback.freedesktop.org/
- apk - wayback-doc - 0.3-r2: normalized package name match | Alpine Linux edge package indexes: wayback-doc from https://dl-cdn.alpinelinux.org/alpine/edge/community/x86_64/APKINDEX.tar.gz | X11 compatibility layer leveraging wlroots and Xwayland (documentation) | https://wayback.freedesktop.org/
- dnf - wayback - 0.3-4.fc45: normalized package name match | Fedora Rawhide package metadata: wayback from https://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/fedora/linux/development/rawhide/Everything/x86_64/os/repodata/07190dc5ae9f35ae73866675fed6d95fe6e8d9fe22c9d7cdf85862cb2ed24a4c-primary.xml.zst | X11 compatibility layer built on wlroots and Xwayland | https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/wayback/wayback
- zypper - wayback - 0.3-2.4: normalized package name match | openSUSE Tumbleweed package metadata: wayback from https://download.opensuse.org/tumbleweed/repo/oss/repodata/50b07339cb64c8ed4091bdbabddadc1ff5737b090e478818a195b40d8a3292861a879139b4a3987c31109699fde9fbf4a716367ddf4eef77da75f96e3193d6ed-primary.xml.zst | Experimental X11 compatibility layer for Wayland | https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/wayback/wayback


## Combined YAML source

View the package source record on GitHub. [combined/wayback.yml](https://github.com/mxcl/pkgdb/blob/main/combined/wayback.yml)


## Quellen

- pkg.so package database
- Geiger risk classifier
- curated configuration and credential file locations
- curated package history
- pkgdb category and tag curation
- external package-manager database matches
- cross-ecosystem install command graph
