# jsvine/waybackpack

Download the entire Wayback Machine archive for a given URL.

Repository: https://github.com/jsvine/waybackpack
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/waybackpack
Language: Python
License: MIT
License Family: permissive
Last push: 2025-04-21T02:54:24+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 30/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-02T17:46:02.011165+00:00)
- activity 17, release rhythm 8, longevity 100
- inputs: {"age_days": 3796, "days_push": 499, "days_rel": null, "gap_med": null, "n_releases_24m": 0}
- flags: none
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 3228, forks 212 (observed 2026-08-28T04:07:50.073876+00:00)

## What it is
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
- artifact type: cli-tool
- maturity: active
- function: web-scraping, cli, http-client
- domain: developer-tools, crawlers
- platform: python, cli, cross-platform
- tags: wayback-machine, internet-archive, archival, snapshots, downloader, command-line, archives

## Member repositories
- jsvine/waybackpack (main) score 30

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:07:50.073876+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 2026-08-29T18:43:57.483772+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/jsvine/waybackpack (fetched 2026-08-28T04:07:50.073876+00:00, sha 049a8ac6bb5c)
  - registry_pypi: https://pypi.org/pypi/waybackpack/json (fetched 2026-08-29T09:37:38.787204+00:00, sha f0a3221adc06)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.