# Install wayback with Homebrew

Archiving tool integrated with various archival services. Version 0.20.1 via Homebrew; verified 2026-07-25.

## Install

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

Additional install commands:

### macOS

- Homebrew (100%):

```sh
brew install wayback
```

  Evidence: provider-native install command

## Package facts

- **Package key:** brew:wayback
- **Package manager:** Homebrew
- **Version:** 0.20.1
- **Source summary:** Archiving tool integrated with various archival services
- **Homepage:** <https://docs.wabarc.eu.org>
- **Repository:** <https://github.com/wabarc/wayback>
- **Last updated:** 2026-07-25T22:40:19+02:00
- **Generated:** 2026-08-03T00:40:33+00:00

## Executables

- wayback (alias)

## Install behavior

- Bottle: not available

## Freshness

- Page generated: 2026-08-03
- Package-manager version: 0.20.1
## 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

- <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


## Security Notes

narrow executable package without higher-risk signals.

- **Geiger risk:** green / low
- 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

## Combined YAML source

View the package source record on GitHub. [combined/wayback.yml](https://github.com/automic-vault/db/blob/main/combined/wayback.yml)


## Sources

- Nucleus package database
- Geiger risk classifier
- curated configuration and credential file locations
- curated package history
- pkgdb category and tag curation