wabarc/wayback
An archiving tool with an IM-style interface that prioritizes privacy and accessibility, integrated with various archival services including Internet Archive, archive.today, Ghostarchive, IPFS, Telegraph, and file systems. observed · 2026-08-28
Health v2 · maintenance only
85/100
- Activity 97
- Release rhythm 60
- Longevity 100
How is this computed?
round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10) — computed 2026-09-02. Adoption (stars, forks) is never an input.
- gap_med: n/a
- age_days: 2272
- days_rel: 59
- days_push: 19
- n_releases_24m: 1
Adoption not part of the score
2227 stars · 87 forks observed · 2026-08-28
What it is AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, 2026-08-30, confidence not recorded
Wayback is an open-source web archiving tool written in Go that captures and preserves web pages via services like Internet Archive, archive.today, Ghostarchive, IPFS, and Telegraph. It offers an IM-style bot interface (Telegram, Matrix, IRC, Discord, Slack, Mastodon, Twitter, XMPP), a CLI, and a playback/search service for retrieving archived pages.
Use cases
- archive a webpage to the wayback machine and archive.today
- save web pages to IPFS for permanent preservation
- run a telegram bot that archives URLs sent to it
- snapshot websites for offline reading later
- playback and search previously archived pages
- batch archive a list of URLs
- download streaming media from a page for archiving
When to choose
- you want to preserve web content across multiple archival services from one tool
- you prefer archiving through chat apps like Telegram, Matrix, or Discord
- you need privacy-focused archiving with Tor support and self-hosting
- you want both a CLI and a daemon service for archiving
When to avoid
- you only need a simple one-off page screenshot without archival backends
- you need a full-fidelity WARC archiver like Heritrix or Browsertrix
- you cannot run headless Chromium or don't want external service dependencies
Facets
application · maturity active
web-scraping http-client cli self-hosted developer-tools search-engine file-system privacy crawlers self-hosted developer-tools web-development windows cross-platform cli self-hosted go web-archiving wayback-machine internet-archive archive-today ipfs telegram-bot matrix-bot irc-bot mastodon snapshot tor playback memento screenshot streaming-media-download automation linux macos docker telegram discord
10 sources
- readme: https://github.com/wabarc/wayback · fetched 2026-08-28 · 67bbeefb2bc8
- homepage: https://docs.wabarc.eu.org · fetched 2026-08-29 · c52094fdf5bc
- site_page: https://docs.wabarc.eu.org/installation · fetched 2026-08-29 · e7012f85ef0c
- site_page: https://docs.wabarc.eu.org/integrations/discord · fetched 2026-08-29 · 30959e43b5c6
- site_page: https://docs.wabarc.eu.org/integrations/irc · fetched 2026-08-29 · 21119fa99b59
- site_page: https://docs.wabarc.eu.org/integrations/mastodon · fetched 2026-08-29 · 211cd66b1fb3
- site_page: https://docs.wabarc.eu.org/integrations/matrix · fetched 2026-08-29 · 9d273292a0ba
- site_page: https://docs.wabarc.eu.org/integrations/slack · fetched 2026-08-29 · 4e838b469990
- site_page: https://docs.wabarc.eu.org/integrations/telegram · fetched 2026-08-29 · 8b4cfdef653c
- site_page: https://docs.wabarc.eu.org/integrations/twitter · fetched 2026-08-29 · 8646aa09aee0
Member repositories
| Repository | Role | Health v2 |
|---|---|---|
| wabarc/wayback | main | 85 |
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