Waybackpack: download the entire Wayback Machine archive for a given URL

Re:Waybackpack: download the entire Wayback Machine archive ... by toomuchtodo on Tuesday May 03, 2016 @11:43PM (#11626011)

Is there a JSON API call that can be made to archive.org to archive a provided URL and get a success/fail response back?

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Re:Waybackpack: download the entire Wayback Machine archive ... by greglindahl on Tuesday May 03, 2016 @11:52PM (#11626044)

Alas there's no formal save-page-now API, but if you experiment with using it from a browser, it's not hard to call from a program: fetch https://web.archive.org/save/<url>. The return is html, but if you examine the headers you get back, you'll see that Content-Location: tells you the permanent archived name of that particular capture.

I call APIs like this "accidental APIs"! From looking at our traffic, we have quite a few programmatic users of it.

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Re:Waybackpack: download the entire Wayback Machine archive ... by toomuchtodo on Thursday May 05, 2016 @09:07PM (#11640970)

Thank you!

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