Quick script to save URL to Wayback Machine

waybackup.py

#! /usr/bin/env python

import sys, requests

# Usage: Pass URL to script, get back URL to Wayback Machine snapshot

base_url = 'http://web.archive.org'
r = requests.get(base_url + '/save/' + sys.argv[1])

if r.status_code == requests.codes.ok:
    print base_url + r.headers['content-location']
else:
    print 'Error in response: ' + str(r.status_code)
    # or you could just return the original url
    # print sys.argv[1]