# Install waybackpy with Homebrew

Wayback Machine API interface & command-line tool. Version 3.0.6 via Homebrew; verified 2026-05-15.

## Install

```sh
sudo av install brew:waybackpy
```

Additional install commands:

### macOS

- Homebrew (100%):

```sh
brew install waybackpy
```

  Evidence: provider-native install command

## Package facts

- **Package key:** brew:waybackpy
- **Package manager:** Homebrew
- **Version:** 3.0.6
- **Source summary:** Wayback Machine API interface & command-line tool
- **Homepage:** <https://pypi.org/project/waybackpy/>
- **Last updated:** 2026-05-15T11:35:01Z
- **Generated:** 2026-08-03T00:40:33+00:00

## Executables

- waybackpy (alias)

## Install behavior

- Bottle: not available

## Freshness

- Page generated: 2026-08-03
- Package-manager version: 3.0.6
## 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.

### Sources

- <https://github.com/akamhy/waybackpy>
- <https://github.com/akamhy/waybackpy/wiki/CLI-docs>
- <https://github.com/akamhy/waybackpy/wiki/Python-package-docs>
- <https://pypi.org/project/waybackpy/>


## Security Notes

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.



## Combined YAML source

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


## Sources

- Nucleus package database
- Geiger risk classifier
- curated package history
- pkgdb category and tag curation