linkstat

CLI implementation of httpreserve that can test links and retrieve Internet Archive replacements. The tool can output the result of individual links, or take a CSV list to output collected information in JSON, BoltDB, or CSV format.

Usage

Usage of ./linkstat:
-bolt
output to static BoltDB.
-csv
output to CSV.
-fname string
annotate a response with a filename
-json
output to JSON.
-link string
seek the status of a single URL: JSON
-list string
provide a list of URLs to test against in CSV format.
-save
save the link we're querying -v	return application versions -version

Examples

Example combining tikalinkextract

• tikalinkextract

Inspired by Harvard Innovation Labs to test the ability of httpreserve-workbench at the time. This CLI version is a simplification of that work but should still produce decent results. HTTPreserve Million Dollar Webpage Project

CSV input

An input CSV example.csv might look as follows:

"BBC News","http://www.bbc.co.uk/news""BBC Home","http://www.bbc.co.uk/""BBC Radio","http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio""Google","http://www.google.com""exponentialdecay.co.uk","http://www.exponentialdecay.co.uk""Internet Archive","http://www.archive.org""perma.cc","http://perma.cc""wikipedia.org","http://wikipedia.org""The Million Dollar Homepage","http://www.getpixel.net"

To output a CSV collecting all of the linkstat results, you can run a command as follows:

$ ./linkstat -csv --list example.csv > output.csv

And the output looks as follows:

"id","filename","link","response code","response text","title","content-type","archived","internet archive response code","internet archive response text","wayback earliest date","internet archive earliest","wayback latest date","internet archive latest","internet archive save link","protocol error","protocol error","analysis version number","analysis version text","stats creation time""1651a00b16a12ba06fc6c6b049c7cf7c","BBC News","https://www.bbc.co.uk/news","200","OK","home - bbc news","text/html;charset=utf-8","true","302","Found","09 October 1997","http://web.archive.org/web/19971009011901/http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/","19 March 2019","http://web.archive.org/web/20190319173721/https://www.bbc.co.uk/news","http://web.archive.org/save/https://www.bbc.co.uk/news","","","0.0.9","exponentialDK-httpreserve/0.0.9","1.574649021s""57ab6349a47b53b982a939fb1da54fef","BBC Radio","https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds","200","OK","bbc sounds - music. radio. podcasts","text/html; charset=utf-8","true","302","Found","19 March 2008","http://web.archive.org/web/20080319074038/http://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds","18 March 2019","http://web.archive.org/web/20190318211158/https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds","http://web.archive.org/save/https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds","","","0.0.9","exponentialDK-httpreserve/0.0.9","1.660729358s""c85da5e372ffe2200e46527b74537ba3","BBC Home","https://www.bbc.co.uk/","200","OK","bbc - home","text/html; charset=utf-8","true","302","Found","21 December 1996","http://web.archive.org/web/19961221203254/http://www0.bbc.co.uk/","19 March 2019","http://web.archive.org/web/20190319141018/https://www.bbc.co.uk/","http://web.archive.org/save/https://www.bbc.co.uk/","","","0.0.9","exponentialDK-httpreserve/0.0.9","1.95442772s""b3bd672c1014e07e87ef4a357a161528","exponentialdecay.co.uk","http://www.exponentialdecay.co.uk","206","Partial Content","ross spencer, digital preservation, archives, python developer, golang developer, uk, nz","text/html","true","302","Found","17 September 2008","http://web.archive.org/web/20080917054811/http://www.exponentialdecay.co.uk/","13 November 2018","http://web.archive.org/web/20181113021338/http://exponentialdecay.co.uk/","http://web.archive.org/save/http://www.exponentialdecay.co.uk","","","0.0.9","exponentialDK-httpreserve/0.0.9","425.368183ms"

An individual link

The command: ./linkstat -link https://github.com/ -label "GitHub" will output:

{
"FileName": "GitHub",
"AnalysisVersionNumber": "0.0.15",
"AnalysisVersionText": "exponentialDK-httpreserve/0.0.15",
"SimpleRequestVersion": "httpreserve-simplerequest/0.0.4",
"Link": "https://github.com/",
"Title": "github: let’s build from here · github",
"ContentType": "text/html; charset=utf-8",
"ResponseCode": 200,
"ResponseText": "OK",
"SourceURL": "https://github.com/",
"ScreenShot": "snapshots are not currently enabled",
"InternetArchiveLinkEarliest": "http://web.archive.org/web/20080514210148/http://github.com/",
"InternetArchiveEarliestDate": "2008-05-14 21:01:48 +0000 UTC",
"InternetArchiveLinkLatest": "http://web.archive.org/web/20230829062855/https://github.com/",
"InternetArchiveLatestDate": "2023-08-29 06:28:55 +0000 UTC",
"InternetArchiveSaveLink": "http://web.archive.org/save/https://github.com/",
"InternetArchiveResponseCode": 302,
"InternetArchiveResponseText": "Found",
"RobustLinkEarliest": "<a href='http://web.archive.org/web/20080514210148/http://github.com/' data-originalurl='https://github.com/' data-versiondate='2008-05-14'>HTTPreserve Robust Link - simply replace this text!!</a>",
"RobustLinkLatest": "<a href='http://web.archive.org/web/20230829062855/https://github.com/' data-originalurl='https://github.com/' data-versiondate='2023-08-29'>HTTPreserve Robust Link - simply replace this text!!</a>",
"PWID": "urn:pwid:archive.org:2023-08-29T06:28:55Z:page:https://github.com/",
"Archived": true,
"Error": false,
"ErrorMessage": "",
"StatsCreationTime": "7.070152149s"
}

Web archiving resources

• Find and Connect Project: Nicola Laurent on the impact of broken links.
• Binary Trees? Automatically Identifying the links between born digital records: I write about hyperlinks as a public record in own right when submitted as part of a documentary heritage.
• HiberActive Pilot A scholarly publishing tool that extracts URLs, returns both the original URL and a perma-link.
• IIPC Awesome List A list of web-archiving links that invites contributions from the community to keep it up-to-date.

License

GNU General Public License Version 3. Full Text