feat: Use archive.org snapshot if it already exists.

README.md

@@ -4,7 +4,6 @@ I use it to archive links in [this forecasting newsletter](https://forecasting.s
 
 > Note to the future: All links are added automatically to the Internet Archive, using this [tool](https://github.com/NunoSempere/longNowForMd) ([a](https://web.archive.org/web/20220109144543/https://github.com/NunoSempere/longNowForMd)). "(a)" for archived links was inspired by [Milan Griffes](https://www.flightfromperfection.com/) ([a](https://web.archive.org/web/20220109144604/https://www.flightfromperfection.com/)), [Andrew Zuckerman](https://www.andzuck.com/) ([a](https://web.archive.org/web/20211202120912/https://www.andzuck.com/)), and [Alexey Guzey](https://guzey.com/) ([a](https://web.archive.org/web/20220109144733/https://guzey.com/)).
 
-
 ## How to install
 Add [this file](https://github.com/NunoSempere/longNowForMd/blob/master/longnow) to your path, for instance by moving it to the `/usr/bin` folder and giving it execute permissions (with `chmod 755 longnow`)
 
@@ -21,6 +20,16 @@ In addition, this utility requires [archivenow](https://github.com/oduwsdl/archi
 pip install archivenow ## respectively, pip3
 ```
 
+It also requires [jq](https://stedolan.github.io/jq/download/), which can be installed as:
+
+```
+sudo apt install jq
+```
+
+if on Debian, or using your distribution's package manager otherwise.
+
+As of the newest iteration of this program, if archive.org already has a snapshot of the page, that snapshot is taken instead. This results in massive time savings, but could imply that a less up to date copy is used. If this behavior is not desired, it can be easily excised manually, by removing the lines around `if [ "$urlAlreadyInArchiveOnline" == "" ]; then`.
+
 ## How to use
 
 ```

longnow.sh

@@ -67,27 +67,39 @@ function pushToArchive(){
       sleep 1m
     fi
     echo "Url: $line"
-    urlAlreadyContained=$( ( grep "$line$" "$archivedLinks"; grep "$line/$" "$archivedLinks" )  | tail -1 )
+    urlAlreadyContainedInLocalArchivedLinks=$( ( grep "$line$" "$archivedLinks"; grep "$line/$" "$archivedLinks" )  | tail -1 )
-    if [ "$urlAlreadyContained" == "" ]; then
+
+    if [ "$urlAlreadyContainedInLocalArchivedLinks" == "" ]; then
+      urlAlreadyInArchiveOnline="$(curl --silent http://archive.org/wayback/available?url=$line |  jq '.archived_snapshots.closest.url' | sed 's/"//g' | sed 's/null//g' )"
+      if [ "$urlAlreadyInArchiveOnline" == "" ]; then
+        echo "Sending to archive..."
         archiveURL=$(archivenow --ia $line)
         if [[ "$archiveURL" == "Error"* ]]; then
           echo "$line" >> "$errors"
           echo "$archiveURL" >> "$errors"
           echo "" >> "$errors"
           echo "There was an error. See $errors for how to deal with it."
+					echo ""
         else
             echo "$archiveURL" >> "$archivedLinks"
         fi
         counter=$((counter+1))
         numSecondsSleep=$((5+ ($RANDOM%15)))
       else
-      archiveURL="$urlAlreadyContained"
+        echo "Already in archive.org: $urlAlreadyInArchiveOnline"
+        echo "$urlAlreadyInArchiveOnline" >> "$archivedLinks"
+				echo ""
         numSecondsSleep=0
       fi
-    echo $archiveURL
+    elif [ ! -z "$urlAlreadyContainedInLocalArchivedLinks" ]; then
+      echo "Already in local archive: $urlAlreadyContainedInLocalArchivedLinks"
+      archiveURL="$urlAlreadyContainedInLocalArchivedLinks"
+      numSecondsSleep=0
+      # echo $archiveURL
       echo "Sleeping for $numSecondsSleep seconds..."
       sleep $numSecondsSleep
       echo ""
+    fi
   done < "$links"
   
   echo "Done pushing links to archive.org"
@@ -121,13 +133,18 @@ function addArchiveLinksToFile(){
 }
 
 ## Explain installation
-function explainInstallation(){
+function explainArchiveNowInstallation(){
   echo "Required archivenow utility not found in path."
   echo "Install with \$ pip install archivenow"
   echo "(resp. \$ pip3 install archivenow)"
   echo "Or follow instructions on https://github.com/oduwsdl/archivenow"
 }
 
+function explainJqInstallation(){
+  echo "Required jq utility not found in path."
+  echo "Install with your package manager, e.g., \$ sudo apt install jq"
+  echo "Or follow instructions on https://stedolan.github.io/jq/download/"
+}
 ## Report errors
 function reportErrors(){
   numLinesErrorFile=$(wc -l "$errors" | awk '{ print $1 }')
@@ -145,9 +162,11 @@ function cleanup(){
 ## Main
 function main(){
   doesArchiveNowExist="$(whereis "archivenow")"
-  if [ "$doesArchiveNowExist" == "archivenow:" ]
+  doesJqExist="$(whereis "jq")"
-	then
+  if [ "$doesArchiveNowExist" == "archivenow:" ]; then
-    explainInstallation
+    explainArchiveNowInstallation
+	elif [ "$doesJqExist" == "jq:" ]; then
+		explainJqInstallation
   else
     moveToWorkDir
     extractMarkdownLinks