waybackurls.py

import requests
import sys
import json


def waybackurls(host, with_subs):
    if with_subs:
        url = 'http://web.archive.org/cdx/search/cdx?url=*.%s/*&output=json&fl=original&collapse=urlkey' % host
    else:
        url = 'http://web.archive.org/cdx/search/cdx?url=%s/*&output=json&fl=original&collapse=urlkey' % host
    r = requests.get(url)
    results = r.json()
    return results[1:]


if __name__ == '__main__':
    argc = len(sys.argv)
    if argc < 2:
        print('Usage:\n\tpython3 waybackurls.py <url> <include_subdomains:optional>')
        sys.exit()

    host = sys.argv[1]
    with_subs = False
    if argc > 3:
        with_subs = True

    urls = waybackurls(host, with_subs)
    json_urls = json.dumps(urls)
    if urls:
        filename = '%s-waybackurls.json' % host
        with open(filename, 'w') as f:
            f.write(json_urls)
        print('[*] Saved results to %s' % filename)
    else:
        print('[-] Found nothing')

A bash function which uses jq (not for sub-domain search but works for any URL prefix). It gives the full web archive url which is generally of format https://web.archive.org/web/$TIMESTAMP/$ORIGINAL:

wb () 
{ 
    if [[ -z $1 ]]; then
        echo "Usage: $0 URL";
    else
        curl "http://web.archive.org/cdx/search/cdx?url=$1/*&output=json&fl=original,timestamp" 2> /dev/null | jq '.[1:][] |"https://web.archive.org/web/" +.[1] + "/" + .[0]' 2> /dev/null;
    fi
}

This can be added to the ~/.bashrc or relevant shell profile.

Usage: wb gist.github.com/mhmdiaa

Hi,
Just wanted to tell you that I used your Idea in https://github.com/akamhy/waybackpy. [commit]

Usage :

pip3 install waybackpy
waybackpy --url akamhy.github.io --user_agent "my-user-agent" --known_urls

Output:

http://akamhy.github.io
https://akamhy.github.io/favicon.ico
https://akamhy.github.io/robots.txt
https://akamhy.github.io/waybackpy/
https://akamhy.github.io/waybackpy/assets/css/style.css?v=a418a4e4641a1dbaad8f3bfbf293fad21a75ff11
https://akamhy.github.io/waybackpy/assets/css/style.css?v=f881705d00bf47b5bf0c58808efe29eecba2226c
6 URLs found and saved in ./akamhy.github.io-6-urls.txt

Flags:

1. '--alive' will only fetch URLs that are not dead. alive will be slower for websites with too many archived URLs e.g. google
2. '--subdomain' will include URLs from subdomains.

See live use @ https://repl.it/@akamhy/Waybackpy-Known-Urls#main.sh

thanku man>

What to do if you have installed wb in python and want to try it in go. They have the same initialization. How to use it in this case?

Hey man just want to say i used your idea as-well. you have been credited :) i made the script because the waybackurls tool was not working on my install.

it works well