# 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.

Repository: https://github.com/wabarc/wayback
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/wayback
Homepage: https://docs.wabarc.eu.org
Language: Go
License: GPL-3.0
License Family: copyleft
Topics: telegram, archive, wayback-machine, save-the-internet, snapshot-webpage, internet-archive, memento, ipfs, heroku, mastodon, twitter, telegraph, irc, matrix, snapshot, screenshot, har, self-hosted, notion, nostr
Last push: 2026-08-14T17:16:37+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 85/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-02T17:46:02.011165+00:00)
- activity 97, release rhythm 60, longevity 100
- inputs: {"age_days": 2272, "days_push": 19, "days_rel": 59, "gap_med": null, "n_releases_24m": 1}
- flags: none
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 2227, forks 87 (observed 2026-08-28T04:06:28.839401+00:00)

## What it is
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
- artifact type: application
- maturity: active
- function: web-scraping, http-client, cli, self-hosted, developer-tools, search-engine, file-system
- domain: privacy, crawlers, self-hosted, developer-tools, web-development
- platform: windows, cross-platform, cli, self-hosted, go
- tags: 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

## Member repositories
- wabarc/wayback (main) score 85

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:06:28.839401+00:00.
- Health v2: computed from the inputs above; adoption is never an input.
- Inferred fields (summary, facets, guidance): AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, on 2026-08-30T02:44:51.915541+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/wabarc/wayback (fetched 2026-08-28T04:06:28.839401+00:00, sha 67bbeefb2bc8)
  - homepage: https://docs.wabarc.eu.org (fetched 2026-08-29T10:25:26.666282+00:00, sha c52094fdf5bc)
  - site_page: https://docs.wabarc.eu.org/installation (fetched 2026-08-29T10:25:26.675227+00:00, sha e7012f85ef0c)
  - site_page: https://docs.wabarc.eu.org/integrations/discord (fetched 2026-08-29T10:25:26.677232+00:00, sha 30959e43b5c6)
  - site_page: https://docs.wabarc.eu.org/integrations/irc (fetched 2026-08-29T10:25:26.679213+00:00, sha 21119fa99b59)
  - site_page: https://docs.wabarc.eu.org/integrations/mastodon (fetched 2026-08-29T10:25:26.681111+00:00, sha 211cd66b1fb3)
  - site_page: https://docs.wabarc.eu.org/integrations/matrix (fetched 2026-08-29T10:25:26.682982+00:00, sha 9d273292a0ba)
  - site_page: https://docs.wabarc.eu.org/integrations/slack (fetched 2026-08-29T10:25:26.684894+00:00, sha 4e838b469990)
  - site_page: https://docs.wabarc.eu.org/integrations/telegram (fetched 2026-08-29T10:25:26.686505+00:00, sha 8b4cfdef653c)
  - site_page: https://docs.wabarc.eu.org/integrations/twitter (fetched 2026-08-29T10:25:26.687971+00:00, sha 8646aa09aee0)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.