A working app with a few bugs sprinkled in. Configuration saved externally

app/utils/upload/runner.py

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+from waybackpy import WaybackMachineSaveAPI # upload to archive.org
+import logging
+logger = logging.getLogger(__name__)
+
+def upload_to_archive(article_object):
+    """uploads to archive.org and returns the archived url"""
+    user_agent = "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 5.1; rv:40.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/40.0" # needed?
+    url = article_object.article_url
+    try:
+        wayback = WaybackMachineSaveAPI(url, user_agent)
+        archive_url = wayback.save()
+        logger.info(f"{url} uploaded to archive successfully")
+        article_object.archive_url = archive_url
+    except Exception as e:
+        article_object.archive_url = "Error while uploading: {}".format(e)
+        logger.error(f"Error while generating new url: {e}")
+
+    return article_object