"""
This module provides a Python API for accessing versions (timestamped captures)
of a URL. There are existing open-source Python packages for the Internet
Archive API (the best-established one seems to be
https://internetarchive.readthedocs.io/en/latest/) but none that expose the
list of versions of a URL.
References used in writing this module:
* https://ws-dl.blogspot.fr/2013/07/2013-07-15-wayback-machine-upgrades.html
Other potentially useful links:
* https://blog.archive.org/developers/
* https://archive.readme.io/docs/memento
"""
from base64 import b32encode
from datetime import date
from enum import Enum
import hashlib
import logging
import re
import requests
from requests.exceptions import (ChunkedEncodingError,
ConnectionError,
ContentDecodingError,
ProxyError,
RetryError,
Timeout)
import time
from urllib3.connectionpool import HTTPConnectionPool
from urllib3.exceptions import (ConnectTimeoutError,
MaxRetryError,
ReadTimeoutError)
from warnings import warn
from . import _utils, __version__
from ._models import CdxRecord, Memento
from .exceptions import (WaybackException,
UnexpectedResponseFormat,
BlockedByRobotsError,
BlockedSiteError,
MementoPlaybackError,
NoMementoError,
WaybackRetryError,
RateLimitError)
logger = logging.getLogger(__name__)
CDX_SEARCH_URL = 'https://web.archive.org/cdx/search/cdx'
# This /web/timemap URL has newer features, but has other bugs and doesn't
# support some features, like resume keys (for paging). It ignores robots.txt,
# while /cdx/search obeys robots.txt (for now). It also has different/extra
# columns. See
# https://github.com/internetarchive/wayback/blob/bd205b9b26664a6e2ea3c0c2a8948f0dc6ff4519/wayback-cdx-server/src/main/java/org/archive/cdxserver/format/CDX11Format.java#L13-L17 # noqa
# NOTE: the `length` and `robotflags` fields appear to always be empty
# TODO: support new/upcoming CDX API
# CDX_SEARCH_URL = 'https://web.archive.org/web/timemap/cdx'
ARCHIVE_URL_TEMPLATE = 'https://web.archive.org/web/{timestamp}{mode}/{url}'
REDUNDANT_HTTP_PORT = re.compile(r'^(http://[^:/]+):80(.*)$')
REDUNDANT_HTTPS_PORT = re.compile(r'^(https://[^:/]+):443(.*)$')
DATA_URL_START = re.compile(r'data:[\w]+/[\w]+;base64')
# Matches URLs w/ users w/no pass, e-mail addresses, and mailto: URLs. These
# basically look like an e-mail or mailto: got `http://` pasted in front, e.g:
# http://b***z@pnnl.gov/
# http://@pnnl.gov/
# http://mailto:first.last@pnnl.gov/
# http://<<mailto:first.last@pnnl.gov>>/
EMAILISH_URL = re.compile(r'^https?://(<*)((mailto:)|([^/@:]*@))')
# Make sure it roughly starts with a valid protocol + domain + port?
URL_ISH = re.compile(r'^[\w+\-]+://[^/?=&]+\.\w\w+(:\d+)?(/|$)')
[docs]class Mode(Enum):
"""
An enum describing the playback mode of a memento. When requesting a
memento (e.g. with :meth:`wayback.WaybackClient.get_memento`), you can use
these values to determine how the response body should be formatted.
For more details, see:
https://archive-access.sourceforge.net/projects/wayback/administrator_manual.html#Archival_URL_Replay_Mode
Examples
--------
>>> waybackClient.get_memento('https://noaa.gov/',
>>> timestamp=datetime.datetime(2018, 1, 2),
>>> mode=wayback.Mode.view)
**Values**
.. py:attribute:: original
Returns the HTTP response body as originally captured.
.. py:attribute:: view
Formats the response body so it can be viewed with a web
browser. URLs for links and subresources like scripts, stylesheets,
images, etc. will be modified to point to the equivalent memento in the
Wayback Machine so that the resulting page looks as similar as possible
to how it would have appeared when originally captured. It's mainly meant
for use with HTML pages. This is the playback mode you typically use when
browsing the Wayback Machine with a web browser.
.. py:attribute:: javascript
Formats the response body by updating URLs, similar
to ``Mode.view``, but designed for JavaScript instead of HTML.
.. py:attribute:: css
Formats the response body by updating URLs, similar to
``Mode.view``, but designed for CSS instead of HTML.
.. py:attribute:: image
formats the response body similar to ``Mode.view``, but
designed for image files instead of HTML.
"""
original = 'id_'
view = ''
javascript = 'js_'
css = 'cs_'
image = 'im_'
def is_malformed_url(url):
if DATA_URL_START.search(url):
return True
# TODO: restrict to particular protocols?
if url.startswith('mailto:') or EMAILISH_URL.match(url):
return True
if URL_ISH.match(url) is None:
return True
return False
def cdx_hash(content):
if isinstance(content, str):
content = content.encode()
return b32encode(hashlib.sha1(content).digest()).decode()
def read_and_close(response):
# Read content so it gets cached and close the response so
# we can release the connection for reuse. See:
# https://github.com/psf/requests/blob/eedd67462819f8dbf8c1c32e77f9070606605231/requests/sessions.py#L160-L163
try:
response.content
except (ChunkedEncodingError, ContentDecodingError, RuntimeError):
response.raw.read(decode_content=False)
finally:
response.close()
#####################################################################
# HACK: handle malformed Content-Encoding headers from Wayback.
# When you send `Accept-Encoding: gzip` on a request for a memento, Wayback
# will faithfully gzip the response body. However, if the original response
# from the web server that was snapshotted was gzipped, Wayback screws up the
# `Content-Encoding` header on the memento response, leading any HTTP client to
# *not* decompress the gzipped body. Wayback folks have no clear timeline for
# a fix, hence the workaround here. More info in this issue:
# https://github.com/edgi-govdata-archiving/web-monitoring-processing/issues/309
#
# This subclass of urllib3's response class identifies the malformed headers
# and repairs them before instantiating the actual response object, so when it
# reads the body, it knows to decode it correctly.
#
# See what we're overriding from urllib3:
# https://github.com/urllib3/urllib3/blob/a6ec68a5c5c5743c59fe5c62c635c929586c429b/src/urllib3/response.py#L499-L526
class WaybackResponse(HTTPConnectionPool.ResponseCls):
@classmethod
def from_httplib(cls, httplib_response, **response_kwargs):
headers = httplib_response.msg
pairs = headers.items()
if ('content-encoding', '') in pairs and ('Content-Encoding', 'gzip') in pairs:
del headers['content-encoding']
headers['Content-Encoding'] = 'gzip'
return super().from_httplib(httplib_response, **response_kwargs)
HTTPConnectionPool.ResponseCls = WaybackResponse
# END HACK
#####################################################################
[docs]class WaybackSession(_utils.DisableAfterCloseSession, requests.Session):
"""
A custom session object that pools network connections and resources for
requests to the Wayback Machine.
Parameters
----------
retries : int, default: 6
The maximum number of retries for requests.
backoff : int or float, default: 2
Number of seconds from which to calculate how long to back off and wait
when retrying requests. The first retry is always immediate, but
subsequent retries increase by powers of 2:
seconds = backoff * 2 ^ (retry number - 1)
So if this was `4`, retries would happen after the following delays:
0 seconds, 4 seconds, 8 seconds, 16 seconds, ...
timeout : int or float or tuple of (int or float, int or float), default: 60
A timeout to use for all requests.
See the Requests docs for more:
https://docs.python-requests.org/en/master/user/advanced/#timeouts
user_agent : str, optional
A custom user-agent string to use in all requests. Defaults to:
`wayback/{version} (+https://github.com/edgi-govdata-archiving/wayback)`
search_calls_per_second : int or float, default: 1.5
The maximum number of calls made to the search API per second.
To disable the rate limit, set this to 0.
memento_calls_per_second : int or float, default: 30
The maximum number of calls made to the memento API per second.
To disable the rate limit, set this to 0.
"""
# It seems Wayback sometimes produces 500 errors for transient issues, so
# they make sense to retry here. Usually not in other contexts, though.
retryable_statuses = frozenset((413, 421, 429, 500, 502, 503, 504, 599))
retryable_errors = (ConnectTimeoutError, MaxRetryError, ReadTimeoutError,
ProxyError, RetryError, Timeout)
# Handleable errors *may* be retryable, but need additional logic beyond
# just the error type. See `should_retry_error()`.
handleable_errors = (ConnectionError,) + retryable_errors
def __init__(self, retries=6, backoff=2, timeout=60, user_agent=None,
search_calls_per_second=1.5, memento_calls_per_second=30):
super().__init__()
self.retries = retries
self.backoff = backoff
self.timeout = timeout
self.headers = {
'User-Agent': (user_agent or
f'wayback/{__version__} (+https://github.com/edgi-govdata-archiving/wayback)'),
'Accept-Encoding': 'gzip, deflate'
}
self.search_calls_per_second = search_calls_per_second
self.memento_calls_per_second = memento_calls_per_second
# NOTE: the nice way to accomplish retry/backoff is with a urllib3:
# adapter = requests.adapters.HTTPAdapter(
# max_retries=Retry(total=5, backoff_factor=2,
# status_forcelist=(503, 504)))
# self.mount('http://', adapter)
# But Wayback mementos can have errors, which complicates things. See:
# https://github.com/urllib3/urllib3/issues/1445#issuecomment-422950868
#
# Also note that, if we are ever able to switch to that, we may need to
# get more fancy with log filtering, since we *expect* lots of retries
# with Wayback's APIs, but urllib3 logs a warning on every retry:
# https://github.com/urllib3/urllib3/blob/5b047b645f5f93900d5e2fc31230848c25eb1f5f/src/urllib3/connectionpool.py#L730-L737
# Customize the built-in `send` functionality with retryability.
# NOTE: worth considering whether we should push this logic to a custom
# requests.adapters.HTTPAdapter
def send(self, *args, **kwargs):
total_time = 0
maximum = self.retries
retries = 0
while True:
try:
result = super().send(*args, **kwargs)
if retries >= maximum or not self.should_retry(result):
if result.status_code == 429:
raise RateLimitError(result)
return result
except WaybackSession.handleable_errors as error:
response = getattr(error, 'response', None)
if response:
read_and_close(response)
if retries >= maximum:
raise WaybackRetryError(retries, total_time, error) from error
elif not self.should_retry_error(error):
raise
# The first retry has no delay.
if retries > 0:
seconds = self.backoff * 2 ** (retries - 1)
total_time += seconds
time.sleep(seconds)
retries += 1
# Customize `request` in order to set a default timeout from the session.
# We can't do this in `send` because `request` always passes a `timeout`
# keyword to `send`. Inside `send`, we can't tell the difference between a
# user explicitly requesting no timeout and not setting one at all.
def request(self, method, url, **kwargs):
"""
Perform an HTTP request using this session. For arguments and return
values, see:
https://requests.readthedocs.io/en/latest/api/#requests.Session.request
If the ``timeout`` keyword argument is not set, it will default to the
session's ``timeout`` attribute.
"""
if 'timeout' not in kwargs:
kwargs['timeout'] = self.timeout
return super().request(method, url, **kwargs)
def should_retry(self, response):
# A memento may actually be a capture of an error, so don't retry it :P
if 'Memento-Datetime' in response.headers:
return False
return response.status_code in self.retryable_statuses
def should_retry_error(self, error):
if isinstance(error, WaybackSession.retryable_errors):
return True
elif isinstance(error, ConnectionError):
# ConnectionErrors from requests actually wrap a whole family of
# more detailed errors from urllib3, so we need to do some string
# checking to determine whether the error is retryable.
text = str(error)
# NOTE: we have also seen this, which may warrant retrying:
# `requests.exceptions.ConnectionError: ('Connection aborted.',
# RemoteDisconnected('Remote end closed connection without
# response'))`
if 'NewConnectionError' in text or 'Max retries' in text:
return True
return False
[docs] def reset(self):
"Reset any network connections the session is using."
# Close really just closes all the adapters in `self.adapters`. We
# could do that directly, but `self.adapters` is not documented/public,
# so might be somewhat risky.
self.close(disable=False)
# Re-build the standard adapters. See:
# https://github.com/kennethreitz/requests/blob/v2.22.0/requests/sessions.py#L415-L418
self.mount('https://', requests.adapters.HTTPAdapter())
self.mount('http://', requests.adapters.HTTPAdapter())
# TODO: add retry, backoff, cross_thread_backoff, and rate_limit options that
# create a custom instance of urllib3.utils.Retry
[docs]class WaybackClient(_utils.DepthCountedContext):
"""
A client for retrieving data from the Internet Archive's Wayback Machine.
You can use a WaybackClient as a context manager. When exiting, it will
close the session it's using (if you've passed in a custom session, make
sure not to use the context manager functionality unless you want to live
dangerously).
Parameters
----------
session : :class:`requests.Session`, optional
"""
def __init__(self, session=None):
self.session = session or WaybackSession()
def __exit_all__(self, type, value, traceback):
self.close()
def close(self):
"Close the client's session."
self.session.close()
[docs] def search(self, url, *, match_type=None, limit=1000, offset=None,
fast_latest=None, from_date=None, to_date=None,
filter_field=None, collapse=None, resolve_revisits=True,
skip_malformed_results=True,
# Deprecated Parameters
matchType=None, fastLatest=None, resolveRevisits=None):
"""
Search archive.org's CDX API for all captures of a given URL. This
returns an iterator of :class:`CdxRecord` objects. The `StopIteration`
value is the total count of found captures.
Results include captures with similar, but not exactly matching URLs.
They are matched by a SURT-formatted, canonicalized URL that:
* Does not differentiate between HTTP and HTTPS,
* Is not case-sensitive, and
* Treats ``www.`` and ``www*.`` subdomains the same as no subdomain at
all.
This will automatically page through all results for a given search. If
you want fewer results, you can stop iterating early:
.. code-block:: python
from itertools import islice
first10 = list(islice(client.search(...), 10))
Parameters
----------
url : str
The URL to search for captures of.
Special patterns in ``url`` imply a value for the ``match_type``
parameter and match multiple URLs:
* If the URL starts with `*.` (e.g. ``*.epa.gov``) OR
``match_type='domain'``, the search will include all URLs at the
given domain and its subdomains.
* If the URL ends with `/*` (e.g. ``https://epa.gov/*``) OR
``match_type='prefix'``, the search will include all URLs that
start with the text up to the ``*``.
* Otherwise, this returns matches just for the requeted URL.
match_type : str, optional
Determines how to interpret the ``url`` parameter. It must be one of
the following:
* ``exact`` (default) returns results matching the requested URL
(see notes about SURT above; this is not an exact string match of
the URL you pass in).
* ``prefix`` returns results that start with the requested URL.
* ``host`` returns results from all URLs at the host in the
requested URL.
* ``domain`` returns results from all URLs at the domain or any
subdomain of the requested URL.
The default value is calculated based on the format of ``url``.
limit : int, default: 1000
Maximum number of results per request to the API (not the maximum
number of results this function yields).
Negative values return the most recent N results.
Positive values are complicated! The search server will only scan so
much data on each query, and if it finds fewer than ``limit``
results before hitting its own internal limits, it will behave as if
if there are no more results, even though there may be.
Unfortunately, ideal values for ``limit`` aren't very predicatable
because the search server combines data from different sources, and
they do not all behave the same. Their parameters may also be
changed over time.
In general…
* The default value should work well in typical cases.
* For frequently captured URLs, you may want to set a higher value
(e.g. 12,000) for more efficient querying.
* For infrequently captured URLs, you may want to set a lower value
(e.g. 100 or even 10) to ensure that your query does not hit
internal limits before returning.
* For extremely infrequently captured URLs, you may simply want to
call ``search()`` multiple times with different, close together
``from_date`` and ``to_date`` values.
offset : int, optional
Skip the first N results.
fast_latest : bool, optional
Get faster results when using a negative value for ``limit``. It may
return a variable number of results that doesn't match the value
of ``limit``. For example,
``search('http://epa.gov', limit=-10, fast_latest=True)`` may return
any number of results between 1 and 10.
from_date : datetime or date, optional
Only include captures after this date. Equivalent to the
`from` argument in the CDX API. If it does not have a time zone, it
is assumed to be in UTC.
to_date : datetime or date, optional
Only include captures before this date. Equivalent to the `to`
argument in the CDX API. If it does not have a time zone, it is
assumed to be in UTC.
filter_field : str, optional
A filter for any field in the results. Equivalent to the ``filter``
argument in the CDX API. (format: ``[!]field:regex``)
collapse : str, optional
Collapse consecutive results that match on a given field. (format:
`fieldname` or `fieldname:N` -- N is the number of chars to match.)
resolve_revisits : bool, default: True
Attempt to resolve ``warc/revisit`` records to their actual content
type and response code. Not supported on all CDX servers.
skip_malformed_results : bool, default: True
If true, don't yield records that look like they have no actual
memento associated with them. Some crawlers will erroneously
attempt to capture bad URLs like
``http://mailto:someone@domain.com`` or
``http://data:image/jpeg;base64,AF34...`` and so on. This is a
filter performed client side and is not a CDX API argument.
Raises
------
UnexpectedResponseFormat
If the CDX response was not parseable.
Yields
------
version: CdxRecord
A :class:`CdxRecord` encapsulating one capture or revisit
References
----------
* HTTP API Docs: https://github.com/internetarchive/wayback/tree/master/wayback-cdx-server
* SURT formatting: http://crawler.archive.org/articles/user_manual/glossary.html#surt
* SURT implementation: https://github.com/internetarchive/surt
Notes
-----
Several CDX API parameters are not relevant or handled automatically
by this function. This does not support: `output`, `fl`,
`showDupeCount`, `showSkipCount`, `lastSkipTimestamp`, `showNumPages`,
`showPagedIndex`.
It also does not support `page` and `pageSize` for
pagination because they work differently from the `resumeKey` method
this uses, and results do not include recent captures when using them.
"""
if matchType is not None:
warn('The `matchType` parameter for search() was renamed to '
'`match_type`. Support for the old name will be removed in '
'wayback v0.5.0; please update your code.',
DeprecationWarning,
stacklevel=2)
match_type = match_type or matchType
if fastLatest is not None:
warn('The `fastLatest` parameter for search() was renamed to '
'`fast_latest`. Support for the old name will be removed in '
'wayback v0.5.0; please update your code.',
DeprecationWarning,
stacklevel=2)
fast_latest = fast_latest or fastLatest
if resolveRevisits is not None:
warn('The `resolveRevisits` parameter for search() was renamed to '
'`resolve_revisits`. Support for the old name will be removed '
'in wayback v0.5.0; please update your code.',
DeprecationWarning,
stacklevel=2)
resolve_revisits = resolve_revisits or resolveRevisits
# TODO: support args that can be set multiple times: filter, collapse
# Should take input as a sequence and convert to repeat query args
# TODO: Check types
query_args = {'url': url, 'matchType': match_type, 'limit': limit,
'offset': offset, 'from': from_date,
'to': to_date, 'filter': filter_field,
'fastLatest': fast_latest, 'collapse': collapse,
'showResumeKey': True,
'resolveRevisits': resolve_revisits}
query = {}
for key, value in query_args.items():
if value is not None:
if isinstance(value, str):
query[key] = value
elif isinstance(value, date):
query[key] = _utils.format_timestamp(value)
else:
query[key] = str(value).lower()
next_query = query
count = 0
previous_result = None
while next_query:
sent_query, next_query = next_query, None
with _utils.rate_limited(self.session.search_calls_per_second,
group='search'):
response = self.session.request('GET', CDX_SEARCH_URL,
params=sent_query)
try:
# Read/cache the response and close straightaway. If we need
# to raise for status, we want to pre-emptively close the
# response so a user handling the error doesn't need to
# worry about it. If we don't raise here, we still want to
# close the connection so it doesn't leak when we move onto
# the next of results or when this iterator ends.
read_and_close(response)
response.raise_for_status()
except requests.exceptions.HTTPError as error:
if 'AdministrativeAccessControlException' in response.text:
raise BlockedSiteError(query['url'])
elif 'RobotAccessControlException' in response.text:
raise BlockedByRobotsError(query['url'])
else:
raise WaybackException(str(error))
lines = iter(response.content.splitlines())
for line in lines:
text = line.decode()
# The resume key is delineated by a blank line.
if text == '':
next_query = {**query, 'resumeKey': next(lines).decode()}
break
elif text == previous_result:
# This result line is a repeat. Skip it.
continue
else:
previous_result = text
try:
data = CdxRecord(*text.split(' '), '', '')
if data.status_code == '-':
# the status code given for a revisit record
status_code = None
else:
status_code = int(data.status_code)
length = None if data.length == '-' else int(data.length)
capture_time = _utils.parse_timestamp(data.timestamp)
except Exception as err:
if 'RobotAccessControlException' in text:
raise BlockedByRobotsError(query["url"])
raise UnexpectedResponseFormat(
f'Could not parse CDX output: "{text}" (query: {sent_query})') from err
clean_url = REDUNDANT_HTTPS_PORT.sub(
r'\1\2', REDUNDANT_HTTP_PORT.sub(
r'\1\2', data.url))
if skip_malformed_results and is_malformed_url(clean_url):
continue
if clean_url != data.url:
data = data._replace(url=clean_url)
# TODO: repeat captures have a status code of `-` and a mime type
# of `warc/revisit`. These can only be resolved by requesting the
# content and following redirects. Maybe nice to do so
# automatically here.
data = data._replace(
status_code=status_code,
length=length,
timestamp=capture_time,
raw_url=ARCHIVE_URL_TEMPLATE.format(
url=data.url,
timestamp=data.timestamp,
mode=Mode.original.value),
view_url=ARCHIVE_URL_TEMPLATE.format(
url=data.url,
timestamp=data.timestamp,
mode=Mode.view.value)
)
count += 1
yield data
return count
[docs] def get_memento(self, url, timestamp=None, mode=Mode.original, *,
exact=True, exact_redirects=None,
target_window=24 * 60 * 60, follow_redirects=True,
# Deprecated Parameters
datetime=None):
"""
Fetch a memento (an archived HTTP response) from the Wayback Machine.
Not all mementos can be successfully fetched (or “played back” in
Wayback terms). In this case, ``get_memento`` can load the
next-closest-in-time memento or it will raise
:class:`wayback.exceptions.MementoPlaybackError` depending on the value
of the ``exact`` and ``exact_redirects`` parameters (see more details
below).
Parameters
----------
url : string or CdxRecord
URL to retrieve a memento of. This can be any of:
- A normal URL (e.g. ``http://www.noaa.gov/``). When using this
form, you must also specify ``timestamp``.
- A ``CdxRecord`` retrieved from
:meth:`wayback.WaybackClient.search`.
- A URL of the memento in Wayback, e.g.
``https://web.archive.org/web/20180816111911id_/http://www.noaa.gov/``
timestamp : datetime.datetime or datetime.date or str, optional
The time at which to retrieve a memento of ``url``. If ``url`` is
a :class:`wayback.CdxRecord` or full memento URL, this parameter
can be omitted.
mode : wayback.Mode or str, default: wayback.Mode.original
The playback mode of the memento. This determines whether the
content of the returned memento is exactly as originally captured
(the default) or modified in some way. See :class:`wayback.Mode`
for a description of possible values.
For more details, see:
https://archive-access.sourceforge.net/projects/wayback/administrator_manual.html#Archival_URL_Replay_Mode
exact : boolean, default: True
If false and the requested memento either doesn't exist or can't be
played back, this returns the closest-in-time memento to the
requested one, so long as it is within ``target_window``. If there
was no memento in the target window or if ``exact=True``, then this
will raise :class:`wayback.exceptions.MementoPlaybackError`.
exact_redirects : boolean, optional
If false and the requested memento is a redirect whose *target*
doesn't exist or can't be played back, this returns the
closest-in-time memento to the intended target, so long as it is
within ``target_window``. If unset, this will be the same as
``exact``.
target_window : int, default: 86400
If the memento is of a redirect, allow up to this many seconds
between the capture of the redirect and the capture of the
redirect's target URL. This window also applies to the first
memento if ``exact=False`` and the originally
requested memento was not available.
Defaults to 86,400 (24 hours).
follow_redirects : boolean, default: True
If true (the default), ``get_memento`` will follow historical
redirects to return the content that a web browser would have
ultimately displayed at the requested URL and time, rather than the
memento of an HTTP redirect response (i.e. a 3xx status code).
That is, if ``http://example.com/a`` redirected to
``http://example.com/b``, then this method returns the memento for
``/a`` when ``follow_redirects=False`` and the memento for ``/b``
when ``follow_redirects=True``.
Returns
-------
Memento
A :class:`Memento` object with information about the archived HTTP
response.
"""
if datetime:
warn('The `datetime` parameter for get_memento() was renamed to '
'`timestamp`. Support for the old name will be removed '
'in wayback v0.5.0; please update your code.',
DeprecationWarning,
stacklevel=2)
timestamp = timestamp or datetime
if exact_redirects is None:
exact_redirects = exact
# Convert Mode enum values to strings rather than the other way around.
# There is a very real possibility of other undocumented modes and we
# don't want converting them via `Mode(str_value)` to raise an error
# and make them impossible to use. Wayback folks have been unclear
# about exactly what all the options are, and it sounds kind of like
# this is an old and kind of messy part of the codebase, where things
# may have been changed around a few times and the people who worked on
# it are now off doing other things.
if isinstance(mode, Mode):
mode = mode.value
elif not isinstance(mode, str):
raise TypeError('`mode` must be a wayback.Mode or string '
f'(received {mode!r})')
if isinstance(url, CdxRecord):
original_date = url.timestamp
original_url = url.url
else:
try:
original_url, original_date, mode = _utils.memento_url_data(url)
except ValueError:
original_url = url
if not timestamp:
raise TypeError('You must specify `timestamp` when using a '
'normal URL for get_memento()')
else:
original_date = _utils.ensure_utc_datetime(timestamp)
original_date_wayback = _utils.format_timestamp(original_date)
url = ARCHIVE_URL_TEMPLATE.format(timestamp=original_date_wayback,
mode=mode,
url=original_url)
with _utils.rate_limited(calls_per_second=self.session.memento_calls_per_second,
group='get_memento'):
# Correctly following redirects is actually pretty complicated. In
# the simplest case, a memento is a simple web page, and that's
# no problem. However...
# 1. If the response was a >= 400 status, we have to determine
# whether that status is coming from the memento or from the
# the Wayback Machine itself.
# 2. If the response was a 3xx status (a redirect) we have to
# determine the same thing, but it's a little more complex...
# a) If the redirect *is* the memento, its target may be an
# actual memento (see #1) or it may be a redirect (#2).
# The targeted URL is frequently captured anywhere from
# the same second to a few hours later, so it is likely
# the target will result in case 2b (below).
# b) If there is no memento for the requested time, but there
# are mementos for the same URL at another time, Wayback
# *may* redirect to that memento.
# - If this was on the original request, that's *not* ok
# because it means we're getting a different memento
# than we asked for.
# - If the redirect came from a URL that was the target of
# of a memento redirect (2a), then this is expected.
# Before following the redirect, though, we first sanity
# check it to make sure the memento we are redirecting
# to actually came from nearby in time (sometimes
# Wayback will redirect to captures *months* away).
history = []
debug_history = []
urls = set()
previous_was_memento = False
response = self.session.request('GET', url, allow_redirects=False)
protocol_and_www = re.compile(r'^https?://(www\d?\.)?')
memento = None
while True:
is_memento = 'Memento-Datetime' in response.headers
current_url, current_date, current_mode = _utils.memento_url_data(response.url)
if is_memento:
memento = Memento(url=current_url,
timestamp=current_date,
mode=current_mode,
memento_url=response.url,
status_code=response.status_code,
headers=Memento.parse_memento_headers(response.headers, response.url),
encoding=response.encoding,
raw=response,
raw_headers=response.headers,
history=history,
debug_history=debug_history)
if not follow_redirects:
break
else:
memento = None
# The exactness requirements for redirects from memento
# playbacks and non-playbacks is different -- even with
# strict matching, a memento that redirects to a non-
# memento is normal and ok; the target of a redirect will
# rarely have been captured at the same time as the
# redirect itself. (See 2b)
playable = False
if response.next and (
(len(history) == 0 and not exact) or
(len(history) > 0 and (previous_was_memento or not exact_redirects))):
target_url, target_date, _ = _utils.memento_url_data(response.next.url)
# A non-memento redirect is generally taking us to the
# closest-in-time capture of the same URL. Note that is
# NOT the next capture -- i.e. the one that would have
# been produced by an earlier memento redirect -- it's
# just the *closest* one. The first job here is to make
# sure it fits within our target window.
if abs(target_date - original_date).total_seconds() <= target_window:
# The redirect will point to the closest-in-time
# SURT URL, which will often not be an exact URL
# match. If we aren't looking for exact matches,
# then just assume wherever we're redirecting to is
# ok. Otherwise, try to sanity-check the URL.
if exact_redirects:
# FIXME: what should *really* happen here, if
# we want exactness, is a CDX search for the
# next-int-time capture of the exact URL we
# redirected to. I'm not totally sure how
# great that is (also it seems high overhead to
# do a search in the middle of this series of
# memento lookups), so just do a loose URL
# check for now.
current_nice_url = protocol_and_www.sub('', current_url).casefold()
target_nice_url = protocol_and_www.sub('', target_url).casefold()
playable = current_nice_url == target_nice_url
else:
playable = True
if not playable:
read_and_close(response)
message = response.headers.get('X-Archive-Wayback-Runtime-Error', '')
if (
('AdministrativeAccessControlException' in message) or
('URL has been excluded' in response.text)
):
raise BlockedSiteError(f'{url} is blocked from access')
elif (
('RobotAccessControlException' in message) or
('robots.txt' in response.text)
):
raise BlockedByRobotsError(f'{url} is blocked by robots.txt')
elif message:
raise MementoPlaybackError(f'Memento at {url} could not be played: {message}')
elif response.ok:
# TODO: Raise more specific errors for the possible
# cases here. We *should* only arrive here when
# there's a redirect and:
# - `exact` is true.
# - `exact_redirects` is true and the redirect was
# not exact.
# - The target URL is outside `target_window`.
raise MementoPlaybackError(f'Memento at {url} could not be played')
elif response.status_code == 404:
raise NoMementoError(f'The URL {url} has no mementos and was never archived')
else:
raise MementoPlaybackError(f'{response.status_code} error while loading '
f'memento at {url}')
if response.next:
previous_was_memento = is_memento
read_and_close(response)
# Wayback sometimes has circular memento redirects ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
urls.add(response.url)
if response.next.url in urls:
raise MementoPlaybackError(f'Memento at {url} is circular')
# All requests are included in `debug_history`, but
# `history` only shows redirects that were mementos.
debug_history.append(response.url)
if is_memento:
history.append(memento)
response = self.session.send(response.next, allow_redirects=False)
else:
break
return memento