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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 archive url: {e}")
return article_object