A small tool to archive a GitHub repository on the Internet Archive. The script downloads the GitHub repository, creates a git bundle and uploads it on archive.org The upload is enriched with metadata from the github api and the README.md

Prerequisites (with debian or ubuntu):

apt-get install python python-dev python-virtualenv 
apt-get install libffi-dev libssl-dev  git

Clone the repo and create the virtualenv and all things...

git clone https://github.com/gdamdam/iagitup.git
cd iagitup

create the virtualenv:

virtualenv venv
source venv/bin/activate

install the requirements:

pip install -r requirements.txt

If you don't already have an Internet Archive account, register for one to give the script upload privileges.

Configure internetarchive with your Internet Archive account:

    ia configure

    python iagitup.py [-h] --githuburl/-u <github_repo_url>

you can add also custom metadata:

    python iagitup.py [-h] --githuburl/-u <github_repo_url> --metadata=<key:value,key2:val2>

as example:

    python iagitup.py -u https://github.com/<GITHUBUSER>/<RESPOSITORY>

The script downloads the git repo from github, creates a git bundle and uploads it on the Internet Archive.

The repo will be archived in an item at url containing the repository name and the date of the last push, something like:

https://archive.org/details/github.com-<GITHUBUSER>-<RESPOSITORY>_-_<DATE-LAST-PUSH>

The git repo bundle will be available at url:

https://archive.org/download/github.com-<GITHUBUSER>-<RESPOSITORY>_-_<DATE-LAST-PUSH>/<BUNDLENAME>.bundle

Download the bundle file, form the archived item:

https://archive.org/download/.../<ARCHIVED_REPO>.bundle

Just download the .bundle file and run:

 git clone file.bundle -b master

Copyright (C) 2017 Giovanni Damiola

This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.

This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details.

You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with this program. If not, see http://www.gnu.org/licenses/.