jsvine/waybackpack
Download the entire Wayback Machine archive for a given URL. observed · 2026-08-28
Health v2 · maintenance only
30/100
- Activity 17
- Release rhythm 8
- 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: 3796
- days_rel: n/a
- days_push: 499
- n_releases_24m: 0
Adoption not part of the score
3228 stars · 212 forks observed · 2026-08-28
What it is AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, 2026-08-29, confidence not recorded
Waybackpack is a Python command-line tool that downloads the entire Wayback Machine archive for a given URL, saving every archived snapshot to disk. It can also list snapshot URLs and filter by date range.
Use cases
- download every archived copy of a webpage from the Wayback Machine
- list all Wayback Machine snapshots for a URL
- archive a website's historical versions between two dates
- bulk-download old versions of a homepage for research
- scrape historical snapshots of a site for analysis
When to choose
- you need the complete set of Wayback Machine snapshots for a specific URL saved locally
- you want a simple pip-installable CLI with date-range filtering and retry options
When to avoid
- you need to crawl entire sites rather than a single URL's snapshots
- you want a GUI or a library API rather than a command-line tool
Facets
cli-tool · maturity active
web-scraping cli http-client developer-tools crawlers python cli cross-platform wayback-machine internet-archive archival snapshots downloader command-line archives
2 sources
- readme: https://github.com/jsvine/waybackpack · fetched 2026-08-28 · 049a8ac6bb5c
- registry_pypi: https://pypi.org/pypi/waybackpack/json · fetched 2026-08-29 · f0a3221adc06
Member repositories
| Repository | Role | Health v2 |
|---|---|---|
| jsvine/waybackpack | main | 30 |
For agents
markdown · JSON · MCP: product_card(name="jsvine/waybackpack")
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