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Archiving tool integrated with various archival services. Version 0.20.1 via Homebrew; verified 2026-07-25.
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Package summary
Archiving tool integrated with various archival services
Project links
Commands and aliases
- wayback
history
Project history and usage
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.
Project history
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.
Adoption history
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.
How it is used
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`.
Why package nerds care
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.
Timeline
- 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.
Sources
security posture
Risk level: green
narrow executable package without higher-risk signals.
Risk classifier
green risk · low confidence · appliance
Why
- narrow executable package without higher-risk signals
Signals
- metadata:no-higher-risk-signals
Install behavior
- No Homebrew bottle metadata was recorded.
Recommended review
Before unattended agent use, check whether the tool reads plaintext credentials, writes remote state, publishes artifacts, or shells out to plugins.
local files
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
Config paths the tool may read or write during local use.
- Unix
./wayback.conf~/wayback.conf/etc/wayback.conf
Credential files
Credential-bearing paths to review before unattended agent runs.
- Unix
./wayback.conf~/wayback.conf/etc/wayback.conf
executables
Installed executables
| Command | Kind | Exposure | Note |
|---|---|---|---|
wayback | executable | indexed executable | Discovered from the local executable index. |
freshness
Version and freshness
These signals separate page generation age, package-manager activity, and upstream release comparison. Version lag is warned only when an evidence URL and comparable versions are present.
page generated2026-08-03
manager version0.20.1
manager updated2026-07-25
local dataunknown
upstreamnot available
latest detectednot detected
- okNo freshness warnings were generated.
install metadata
Package metadata
| Package key | brew:wayback |
|---|---|
| Version | 0.20.1 |
| Package manager | Homebrew |
| Homepage | https://docs.wabarc.eu.org |
| Repository | https://github.com/wabarc/wayback |
| Last updated | 2026-07-25T22:40:19+02:00 |
| Pulse | updated |
| Bottle | not recorded |
| Service | none declared |
source trail
Generated from repository data
This page is generated by av-web from the private package SQLite artifact built by scripts/generate-pkg-sqlite.py.
Combined YAML source
View the package source record on GitHub.
Used sources
- Geiger risk classifier
- Nucleus package database
- curated configuration and credential file locations
- curated package history
- pkgdb category and tag curation