Wayback is a web archiving and playback tool that allows users to capture and preserve web content. It provides an IM-style interface for receiving and presenting archived web content, and a search and playback service for retrieving previously archived pages. Wayback is designed to be used by web archivists, researchers, and anyone who wants to preserve web content and access it in the future.
- Free and open-source
- Expose prometheus metrics
- Cross-platform compatibility
- Batch wayback URLs for faster archiving
- Built-in CLI (
wayback) for convenient use - Serve as a Tor Hidden Service or local web entry for added privacy and accessibility
- Easier wayback to Internet Archive, archive.today, IPFS and Telegraph integration
- Interactive with IRC, Matrix, Telegram bot, Discord bot, Mastodon, Twitter, and XMPP as a daemon service for convenient use
- Supports publishing wayback results to Telegram channel, Mastodon, and GitHub Issues for sharing
- Supports storing archived files to disk for offline use
- Download streaming media (requires FFmpeg) for convenient media archiving.
For a comprehensive guide, please refer to the complete documentation.
The simplest, cross-platform way is to download from GitHub Releases and place the executable file in your PATH.
From source:
go install github.com/wabarc/wayback/cmd/wayback@latestFrom GitHub Releases:
curl -fsSL https://get.wabarc.eu.org | shor via Bina:
curl -fsSL https://bina.egoist.dev/wabarc/wayback | shUsing Snapcraft (on GNU/Linux)
sudo snap install waybackVia APT:
curl -fsSL https://repo.wabarc.eu.org/apt/gpg.key | sudo gpg --dearmor -o /usr/share/keyrings/packages.wabarc.gpg
echo "deb [arch=amd64,arm64,armhf signed-by=/usr/share/keyrings/packages.wabarc.gpg] https://repo.wabarc.eu.org/apt/ /" | sudo tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/wayback.list
sudo apt update
sudo apt install waybackVia RPM:
sudo rpm --import https://repo.wabarc.eu.org/yum/gpg.key
sudo tee /etc/yum.repos.d/wayback.repo > /dev/null <<EOT
[wayback]
name=Wayback Archiver
baseurl=https://repo.wabarc.eu.org/yum/
enabled=1
gpgcheck=1
gpgkey=https://repo.wabarc.eu.org/yum/gpg.key
EOT
sudo dnf install -y waybackVia Homebrew:
brew tap wabarc/wayback
brew install wayback$ wayback -h
A command-line tool and daemon service for archiving webpages.
Usage:
wayback [flags]
Examples:
wayback https://www.wikipedia.org
wayback https://www.fsf.org https://www.eff.org
wayback --ia https://www.fsf.org
wayback --ia --is -d telegram -t your-telegram-bot-token
WAYBACK_SLOT=pinata WAYBACK_APIKEY=YOUR-PINATA-APIKEY \
WAYBACK_SECRET=YOUR-PINATA-SECRET wayback --ip https://www.fsf.org
Flags:
--chatid string Telegram channel id
-c, --config string Configuration file path, defaults: ./wayback.conf, ~/wayback.conf, /etc/wayback.conf
-d, --daemon strings Run as daemon service, supported services are telegram, web, mastodon, twitter, discord, slack, irc, xmpp
--debug Enable debug mode (default mode is false)
-h, --help help for wayback
--ia Wayback webpages to Internet Archive
--info Show application information
--ip Wayback webpages to IPFS
--ipfs-host string IPFS daemon host, do not require, unless enable ipfs (default "127.0.0.1")
-m, --ipfs-mode string IPFS mode (default "pinner")
-p, --ipfs-port uint IPFS daemon port (default 5001)
--is Wayback webpages to Archive Today
--ph Wayback webpages to Telegraph
--print Show application configurations
-t, --token string Telegram Bot API Token
--tor Snapshot webpage via Tor anonymity network
--tor-key string The private key for Tor Hidden Service
-v, --version version for waybackWayback one or more url to Internet Archive and archive.today:
wayback https://www.wikipedia.org
wayback https://www.fsf.org https://www.eff.orgWayback url to Internet Archive or archive.today or IPFS:
// Internet Archive
$ wayback --ia https://www.fsf.org
// archive.today
$ wayback --is https://www.fsf.org
// IPFS
$ wayback --ip https://www.fsf.orgFor using IPFS, also can specify a pinning service:
$ export WAYBACK_SLOT=pinata
$ export WAYBACK_APIKEY=YOUR-PINATA-APIKEY
$ export WAYBACK_SECRET=YOUR-PINATA-SECRET
$ wayback --ip https://www.fsf.org
// or
$ WAYBACK_SLOT=pinata WAYBACK_APIKEY=YOUR-PINATA-APIKEY \
$ WAYBACK_SECRET=YOUR-PINATA-SECRET wayback --ip https://www.fsf.orgMore details about pinning service.
With telegram bot:
wayback --ia --is --ip -d telegram -t your-telegram-bot-tokenPublish message to your Telegram channel at the same time:
wayback --ia --is --ip -d telegram -t your-telegram-bot-token --chatid your-telegram-channel-nameAlso can run with debug mode:
wayback -d telegram -t YOUR-BOT-TOKEN --debugBoth serve on Telegram and Tor hidden service:
wayback -d telegram -t YOUT-BOT-TOKEN -d webURLs from file:
wayback url.txtcat url.txt | waybackLook at the full list of configuration options.
docker pull wabarc/wayback
docker run -d wabarc/wayback wayback -d telegram -t YOUR-BOT-TOKEN # without telegram channel
docker run -d wabarc/wayback wayback -d telegram -t YOUR-BOT-TOKEN -c YOUR-CHANNEL-USERNAME # with telegram channelNote: These are free hosting options. If you need a quick and simple setup, this method may be ideal.
Click to see screenshots of the services.
We encourage all contributions to this repository! Open an issue! Or open a Pull Request!
If you're interested in contributing to wayback itself, read our contributing guide to get started.
Note: All interaction here should conform to the Code of Conduct.
This software is released under the terms of the GNU General Public License v3.0. See the LICENSE file for details.
