From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: =?utf-8?Q?Ludovic_Court=C3=A8s?= Subject: Re: Internet Archive APIs useful as fallback? Date: Wed, 19 Dec 2018 15:57:04 +0100 Message-ID: <87d0pxwon3.fsf@gnu.org> References: <161edf75-57b7-4d5b-8acf-a4c61358add1@riseup.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:46010) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1gZdHZ-0005gA-VF for guix-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 19 Dec 2018 09:57:11 -0500 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1gZdHY-0007fy-Fg for guix-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 19 Dec 2018 09:57:09 -0500 In-Reply-To: <161edf75-57b7-4d5b-8acf-a4c61358add1@riseup.net> (swedebugia's message of "Wed, 19 Dec 2018 06:26:28 +0100") List-Id: "Development of GNU Guix and the GNU System distribution." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: guix-devel-bounces+gcggd-guix-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sender: "Guix-devel" To: swedebugia Cc: guix-devel Hi! swedebugia skribis: > I stumbled over these at clintons blog and thought I would share them > here if anybody is interested. > > APIs for content other that way-back machine: > https://blog.archive.org/2018/12/13/documentation-for-public-apis-at-the-= internet-archive/ > > APIs for the way-back machine: > https://archive.org/help/wayback_api.php We added support to retrieve Git checkouts (and some tarballs) from Software Heritage recently: https://issues.guix.info/issue/33432 The Internet Archive is not in the business of archiving software, but it=E2=80=99d be interesting to see if it archives tarballs that people put = on =E2=80=9Crandom=E2=80=9D web sites, in which case it could also be useful. Thoughts? Ludo=E2=80=99.