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Package summary

Wayback Machine API interface & command-line tool

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waybackpy

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Project history and usage

waybackpy is a Python library and CLI for the public Wayback Machine APIs. It packages Internet Archive save, availability, and CDX queries into importable Python classes and a `waybackpy` command.

Project history

The GitHub repository was created in May 2020 and PyPI release history begins with v1.1 on 2020-05-04. The project was maintained by Akash Mahanty and presents itself as both a Python package and a command-line program for the Internet Archive's Wayback Machine APIs.

The package moved quickly through 2020, reaching 2.0.0 in July and 2.3.x by December. The 3.0.0 series began on 2022-01-18, and PyPI lists 3.0.6, released on 2022-03-15, as the latest release on the project page.

Adoption history

waybackpy's adoption is tied to Python packaging and small automation use cases. The README and PyPI page document installation from PyPI, conda-forge, the source repository, and a Docker image, while the project metadata classifies the package as production/stable and aimed at developers and end users.

How it is used

As a CLI, waybackpy saves a page, gets oldest or newest captures, searches near a timestamp, lists known URLs for a host, and queries the CDX Server API with match scopes, filters, date ranges, and collapse options. As a Python library, it exposes the same Wayback Machine API concepts to scripts.

Its package-nerd niche is lightweight archiving automation: users can add a user agent, save pages during publishing, inspect archive coverage for a domain, or use CDX query results inside OSINT, data-cleaning, or link-preservation scripts.

Why package nerds care

waybackpy is significant less as infrastructure and more as glue. It turns the Wayback Machine's public HTTP APIs into an installable Python tool that fits cron jobs, notebooks, shell scripts, CI jobs, and archival one-liners.

Timeline

2020-05-02: GitHub repository created.
2020-05-04: PyPI release history begins with v1.1.
2020-07-18: 2.0.0 release appears on PyPI.
2022-01-18: 3.0.0 release appears on PyPI.
2022-03-15: 3.0.6 is published on PyPI.

Related projects

waybackpy is related to the Internet Archive Wayback Machine, the SavePageNow API, the CDX Server API, the Availability API, conda-forge packaging, and other command-line Wayback Machine clients.

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security posture

No protected-tool coverage found yet

No matching local secret-handling manifest was found for waybackpy. Nucleus package metadata is still published here so future coverage has a stable package URL.

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.

executables

Installed executables

Command	Kind	Exposure	Note
`waybackpy`	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 version3.0.6

manager updated2026-05-15

local dataunknown

upstreamnot available

latest detectednot detected

okNo freshness warnings were generated.

install metadata

Package metadata

Package key	brew:waybackpy
Version	3.0.6
Package manager	Homebrew
Homepage	https://pypi.org/project/waybackpy/
Last updated	2026-05-15T11:35:01Z
Pulse	updated
Bottle	not recorded
Service	none declared

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This page is generated by av-web from the private package SQLite artifact built by scripts/generate-pkg-sqlite.py.

Combined YAML source

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combined/waybackpy.yml

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