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A Python library to push web resources into public web archives

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A Tool To Push Web Resources Into Web Archives

Archive Now (archivenow) currently is configured to push resources into four public web archives. You can easily add more archives by writing a new archive handler (e.g., ia_handler.py) and place it inside the folder “handlers”.

As explained below, this library can be used through:

  • CLI

  • A Web Service

  • A Docker Container

  • Python

Installing

The latest release of archivenow can be installed using pip:

$ pip install archivenow

The latest development version containing changes not yet released can be installed from source:

$ git clone git@github.com:maturban/archivenow.git
$ cd archivenow
$ pip install -r requirements.txt
$ pip install ./

CLI USAGE

Usage of sub-commands in archivenow can be accessed through providing the -h or –help flag, like any of the below.

$ archivenow -h
usage: archivenow.py [-h] [--cc] [--cc_api_key [CC_API_KEY]] [--ia] [--is]
               [--wc] [-v] [--all] [--server] [--host [HOST]]
               [--port [PORT]]
               [URI]

positional arguments:
  URI                   URI of a web resource

optional arguments:
  -h, --help            show this help message and exit
  --cc                  Use The Perma.cc Archive
  --cc_api_key [CC_API_KEY]
                        An API KEY is required by The Perma.cc Archive
  --ia                  Use The Internet Archive
  --is                  Use The Archive.is
  --wc                  Use The WebCite Archive
  -v, --version         Report the version of archivenow
  --all                 Use all possible archives
  --server              Run archiveNow as a Web Service
  --host [HOST]         A server address
  --port [PORT]         A port number to run a Web Service

Examples

  • Example 1

To save the web page (www.foxnews.com) in the Internet Archive:

$ archivenow --ia www.foxnews.com
['https://web.archive.org/web/20170209135625/http://www.foxnews.com']
  • Example 2

By default, the web page (e.g., www.foxnews.com) will be saved in the Internet Archive if no optional arguments provided:

$ archivenow www.foxnews.com
https://web.archive.org/web/20170215164835/http://www.foxnews.com
  • Example 3

To save the web page (www.foxnews.com) in the Internet Archive (archive.org) and The Archive.is:

$ archivenow --ia --is www.foxnews.com
https://web.archive.org/web/20170209140345/http://www.foxnews.com
http://archive.is/fPVyc
  • Example 4

To save the web page (www.foxnews.com) in all configured web archives:

$ archivenow --all www.foxnews.com --cc_api_key $Your-Perma-CC-API-Key
https://perma.cc/8YYC-C7RM
https://web.archive.org/web/20170220074919/http://www.foxnews.com
http://archive.is/jy8B0
http://www.webcitation.org/6o9IKD9FP

Server

You can run archivenow as a web service. You can specify the server address and/or the port number (e.g., –host localhost –port 11111)

$ archivenow --server

   2017-02-09 14:20:33
   Running on http://127.0.0.1:12345
   (Press CTRL+C to quit)
  • Example 5

To save the web page (www.foxnews.com) in The Internet Archive through the web service:

$ curl -i http://127.0.0.1:12345/ia/www.foxnews.com

     HTTP/1.0 200 OK
     Content-Type: application/json
     Content-Length: 95
     Server: Werkzeug/0.11.15 Python/2.7.10
     Date: Thu, 09 Feb 2017 14:29:23 GMT

    {
      "results": [
        "https://web.archive.org/web/20170209142922/http://www.foxnews.com"
      ]
    }
  • Example 6

To save the web page (www.foxnews.com) in all configured archives though the web service:

$ curl -i http://127.0.0.1:12345/all/www.foxnews.com

    HTTP/1.0 200 OK
    Content-Type: application/json
    Content-Length: 172
    Server: Werkzeug/0.11.15 Python/2.7.10
    Date: Thu, 09 Feb 2017 14:33:47 GMT

    {
      "results": [
        "https://web.archive.org/web/20170209143327/http://www.foxnews.com",
        "http://archive.is/H2Yfg",
        "http://www.webcitation.org/6o9Jubykh",
        "Error (The Perma.cc Archive): An API KEY is required"
      ]
    }
  • Example 7

Because an API Key is required by Perma.cc, the HTTP request should be as following:

$ curl -i http://127.0.0.1:12345/all/www.foxnews.com?cc_api_key=$Your-Perma-CC-API-Key

Or use only the Perma.cc:

$ curl -i http://127.0.0.1:12345/cc/www.foxnews.com?cc_api_key=$Your-Perma-CC-API-Key

Running as a Docker Container

$ docker pull maturban/archivenow

Different ways to run archivenow

$ docker run -it --rm maturban/archivenow -h
$ docker run -p 80:12345 -it --rm maturban/archivenow --server
$ docker run -p 80:11111 -it --rm maturban/archivenow --server --port 11111
$ docker run -it --rm maturban/archivenow --ia http://www.cnn.com

Python Usage

>>> from archivenow import archivenow
  • Example 8

To save the web page (www.foxnews.com) in The WebCite Archive:

>>> archivenow.push("www.foxnews.com","wc")
['http://www.webcitation.org/6o9LTiDz3']
  • Example 9

To save the web page (www.foxnews.com) in all configured archives:

>>> archivenow.push("www.foxnews.com","all")
['https://web.archive.org/web/20170209145930/http://www.foxnews.com','http://archive.is/oAjuM','http://www.webcitation.org/6o9LcQoVV','Error (The Perma.cc Archive): An API KEY is required]
  • Example 10

To save the web page (www.foxnews.com) in The Perma.cc:

>>> archivenow.push("www.foxnews.com","cc","cc_api_key=$YOUR-Perma-cc-API-KEY")
['https://perma.cc/8YYC-C7RM']
  • Example 11

To start the server from Python do the following. The server/port number can be passed (e.g, start(port=1111, host=’localhost’)):

>>> archivenow.start()

    2017-02-09 15:02:37
    Running on http://127.0.0.1:12345
    (Press CTRL+C to quit)

Configuring a new archive or removing existing one

Adding a new archive is as simple as adding a handler file in the folder “handlers”. For example, if I want to add a new archive named “My Archive”, I would create a file “ma_handler.py” and store it in the folder “handlers”. The “ma” will be the archive identifier, so to push a web page (e.g., www.cnn.com) to this archive through the Python code, I should write “>>>archivenow.push(“www.cnn.com”,”ma”)”. In the file “ma_handler.py”, the name of the class must be “MA_handler”. This class must have at least one function called “push” which has one argument. It might be helpful to see how other “*_handler.py” organized.

Removing an archive can be done by one of the following options:

  • Removing the archive handler file from the folder “handlers”

  • Rename the archive handler file to other name that does not end with “_handler.py”

  • Simply, inside the handler file, set the variable “enabled” to “False”

Notes

The Internet Archive (IA) sets a time gap of at least two minutes between creating different copies of the ‘same’ resource. For example, if you send a request to the IA to capture (www.cnn.com) at 10:00pm. The IA will create a new copy (lets call it C1) of this CNN homepage. The IA will return (C1) for all requests to archive the CNN homepage recived before 10:02pm. The Archive.is sets this time gap to five minutes.

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