This is the repository for a minimalist, dockerized application that archives websites into the Internet Archive's Wayback Machine and saves a copy to the local machine - which can be pushed to the repository itself, and therefore is also serving as a web-based personal archive.

The app is composed by a main archive (bash) script and a companion savepage (python) script.

archive takes three positional arguments:

• $1: URL to be archived

• $2: name of the folder to save the webpage locally

• $3: prefix of web-based personal archive

The script submits the URL to the Wayback Machine via waybackpy, saves a local copy via savepage, saves a log of shell outputs (to outputs.txt) and adds information to a series of lists (original.lst, folder.lst, wayback.lst, and archive.lst) to thereafter create/add to a summary table.

savepage is the companion script that handles the download of the webpage, extracts metadata and ouputs a metadata.txt file to the folder of interest.

Usage example:

1. Pull the image from dockerhub, with docker pull jlnetosci/archive:v0.1.0
2. Use docker run -v <path/to/local/archive>:/usr/local/etc jlnetosci/archive:v0.1.0 archive <url_to_save> <folder_name> <prefix_of_personal_web_archive> to run the application.

The summary table in README.md is updated using the summary_table.R coupled with the docker image jlnetosci/r-minimal-knitr:1.43. Usage example: docker run --rm -v <path/to/local/archive>:/root jlnetosci/r-minimal-knitr:1.43 Rscript summary_table.R