Source code for feed2exec.plugins.wayback

import logging

import requests


WAYBACK_URL = 'https://web.archive.org'


[docs]def output(*args, feed=None, item=None, **kwargs): """This plugin saves the feed items `link` element to the wayback machine. It will retry URLs that fail, so it may be necessary to manually catchup feeds if they have broken `link` fields. Example:: [NASA IOTD wayback] url = https://www.nasa.gov/rss/dyn/lg_image_of_the_day.rss output = feed2exec.plugins.wayback The above will save the Image of the day updates to the wayback machine. """ if item and item.get('link'): wayback_url = '%s/save/%s' % (WAYBACK_URL, item.get('link')) if feed.get('catchup'): logging.info('skipping wayback machine save to %s', wayback_url) return True res = feed.session.head(wayback_url, allow_redirects=True) res.headers['status_code'] = res.status_code if res.history: res.headers['Content-Location'] = res.history[0].headers['Content-Location'] # noqa location = res.headers['Content-Location'] archive_location = WAYBACK_URL + location if res.status_code == requests.codes.ok: logging.info('URL %s saved to wayback machine: %s', item.get('link'), archive_location, extra=res) return True else: logging.warn('wayback machine failed to save URL %s, status %d', item.get('link'), res.status_code, extra=res) # noqa return False