A tool to check the status of a weblink and also see whether it is archived in the Internet Archive.
Try it out here httpreserve.info
The library comes with a default server mode that can be configured for POST and GET requests. POST by default. Default port is :2040 but this can also be selected at runtime.
The default server can also be stood up as a web service. The API is documented below.
The httpreserve linstat client is a separate application offering simple access to httpreserve functionality through the command line. See linkstat
The client application is a work in progress. Stay tuned for more information about its capabilities.
Primary entry point when the server is running:
http://{httpreserve-ip-address}:{port}/httpreserve
or
http://{httpreserve-ip-address}:{port}/save
GET example:
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Return JSON struct with information about the service you requested:
http://{httpreserve-ip-address}:{port}/httpreserve?url=http://www.google.com&filename=filename.txt
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Manage a save request to the internet archive and return HTTPreserve struct:
http://{httpreserve-ip-address}:{port}/save?url=http://www.google.com&filename=filename.txt
POST example:
Same access point, but encode url and filename in a <i>application/x-www-form-urlencoded</i> form.
OPTIONS example:
`curl -X OPTIONS http://httpreserve.info | less`
RETURN value:
'application/json' struct to work with, e.g.
{
"AnalysisVersionNumber": "0.0.15",
"AnalysisVersionText": "exponentialDK-httpreserve/0.0.15",
"SimpleRequestVersion": "httpreserve-simplerequest/0.0.4",
"Link": "http://example.com/",
"Title": "example domain",
"ContentType": "text/html; charset=UTF-8",
"ResponseCode": 206,
"ResponseText": "Partial Content",
"SourceURL": "http://example.com/",
"ScreenShot": "snapshots are not currently enabled",
"InternetArchiveLinkEarliest": "http://web.archive.org/web/20020120142510/http://example.com/",
"InternetArchiveEarliestDate": "2002-01-20 14:25:10 +0000 UTC",
"InternetArchiveLinkLatest": "http://web.archive.org/web/20230526145524/https://example.com/",
"InternetArchiveLatestDate": "2023-05-26 14:55:24 +0000 UTC",
"InternetArchiveSaveLink": "http://web.archive.org/save/http://example.com/",
"InternetArchiveResponseCode": 302,
"InternetArchiveResponseText": "Found",
"RobustLinkEarliest": "<a href='http://web.archive.org/web/20020120142510/http://example.com/' data-originalurl='http://example.com/' data-versiondate='2002-01-20'>HTTPreserve Robust Link - simply replace this text!!</a>",
"RobustLinkLatest": "<a href='http://web.archive.org/web/20230526145524/https://example.com/' data-originalurl='http://example.com/' data-versiondate='2023-05-26'>HTTPreserve Robust Link - simply replace this text!!</a>",
"PWID": "urn:pwid:archive.org:2023-05-26T14:55:24Z:page:http://example.com/",
"Archived": true,
"Error": false,
"ErrorMessage": "",
"StatsCreationTime": "883.557598ms"
}- 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.
HTTPreserve tries to promote the use of emerging standards such as Mementoweb's Robust Links and the Royal Danish Library's Persistent Web-Identifiers (PWIDs).
More information about those can be found at the links below:
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