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Configuration Parameters

Wayback can use a configuration file and environment variables.

If both of the definition file and environment variables are specified, they are all will be read and apply, and preferred from the environment variable for the same item.

Prints the resulting options of the targets with --print, in a Go struct with type, without running the wayback.

By default, wayback looks for configuration options from this files, the following are parsed:

  • ./wayback.conf
  • ~/wayback.conf
  • /etc/wayback.conf

Use the -c / --config option to specify the build definition file to use.

Configuration Options

Flags Environment Variable Default Description
--debug DEBUG false Enable debug mode, override LOG_LEVEL
-c, --config - - Configuration file path, defaults: ./wayback.conf, ~/wayback.conf, /etc/wayback.conf
- LOG_TIME true Display the date and time in log messages
- LOG_LEVEL info Log level, supported level are debug, info, warn, error, fatal, defaults to info
- ENABLE_METRICS false Enable metrics collector
- WAYBACK_LISTEN_ADDR 0.0.0.0:8964 The listen address for the HTTP server
- CHROME_BIN - Preferred to sets the path to the Chrome executable
- CHROME_REMOTE_ADDR - Chrome/Chromium remote debugging address, for screenshot, format: host:port, wss://domain.tld
- WAYBACK_PROXY - Proxy address, e.g. socks5://127.0.0.1:1080
- WAYBACK_POOLING_SIZE 3 Number of worker pool for wayback at once
- WAYBACK_BOLT_PATH ./wayback.db File path of bolt database
- WAYBACK_STORAGE_DIR - Directory to store binary file, e.g. PDF, html file
- WAYBACK_MAX_MEDIA_SIZE 512MB Max size to limit download stream media
- WAYBACK_MEDIA_SITES - Extra media websites wish to be supported, separate with comma
- WAYBACK_TIMEOUT 300 Timeout for single wayback request, defaults to 300 second
- WAYBACK_MAX_RETRIES 2 Max retries for single wayback request, defaults to 2
- WAYBACK_USERAGENT WaybackArchiver/1.0 User-Agent for a wayback request
- WAYBACK_FALLBACK off Use Google cache as a fallback if the original webpage is unavailable
- WAYBACK_MEILI_ENDPOINT - Meilisearch API endpoint
- WAYBACK_MEILI_INDEXING capsules Meilisearch indexing name
- WAYBACK_MEILI_APIKEY - Meilisearch admin API key
-d, --daemon - - Run as daemon service, e.g. telegram, web, mastodon, twitter, discord
--ia WAYBACK_ENABLE_IA true Wayback webpages to Internet Archive
--is WAYBACK_ENABLE_IS true Wayback webpages to Archive Today
--ip WAYBACK_ENABLE_IP false Wayback webpages to IPFS
--ph WAYBACK_ENABLE_PH false Wayback webpages to Telegra.ph, required Chrome/Chromium
--ipfs-host WAYBACK_IPFS_HOST 127.0.0.1 IPFS daemon service host
-p, --ipfs-port WAYBACK_IPFS_PORT 5001 IPFS daemon service port
-m, --ipfs-mode WAYBACK_IPFS_MODE pinner IPFS mode for preserve webpage, e.g. daemon, pinner
- WAYBACK_IPFS_TARGET web3storage The IPFS pinning service is used to store files, supported pinners: infura, pinata, nftstorage, web3storage.
- WAYBACK_IPFS_APIKEY - Apikey of the IPFS pinning service
- WAYBACK_IPFS_SECRET - Secret of the IPFS pinning service
- WAYBACK_GITHUB_TOKEN - GitHub Personal Access Token, required the repo scope
- WAYBACK_GITHUB_OWNER - GitHub account name
- WAYBACK_GITHUB_REPO - GitHub repository to publish results
- WAYBACK_NOTION_TOKEN - Notion integration token
- WAYBACK_NOTION_DATABASE_ID - Notion database ID for archiving results
-t, --token WAYBACK_TELEGRAM_TOKEN - Telegram Bot API Token
--chatid WAYBACK_TELEGRAM_CHANNEL - The Telegram public/private channel id to publish archive result
- WAYBACK_TELEGRAM_HELPTEXT - The help text for Telegram command
- WAYBACK_MASTODON_SERVER - Domain of Mastodon instance
- WAYBACK_MASTODON_KEY - The client key of your Mastodon application
- WAYBACK_MASTODON_SECRET - The client secret of your Mastodon application
- WAYBACK_MASTODON_TOKEN - The access token of your Mastodon application
- WAYBACK_TWITTER_CONSUMER_KEY - The customer key of your Twitter application
- WAYBACK_TWITTER_CONSUMER_SECRET - The customer secret of your Twitter application
- WAYBACK_TWITTER_ACCESS_TOKEN - The access token of your Twitter application
- WAYBACK_TWITTER_ACCESS_SECRET - The access secret of your Twitter application
- WAYBACK_IRC_NICK - IRC nick
- WAYBACK_IRC_NAME - IRC name
- WAYBACK_IRC_PASSWORD - IRC password
- WAYBACK_IRC_CHANNEL - IRC channel
- WAYBACK_IRC_SERVER irc.libera.chat:6697 IRC server, required TLS
- WAYBACK_MATRIX_HOMESERVER https://matrix.org Matrix homeserver
- WAYBACK_MATRIX_USERID - Matrix unique user ID, format: @foo:example.com
- WAYBACK_MATRIX_ROOMID - Matrix internal room ID, format: !bar:example.com
- WAYBACK_MATRIX_PASSWORD - Matrix password
- WAYBACK_DISCORD_BOT_TOKEN - Discord bot authorization token
- WAYBACK_DISCORD_CHANNEL - Discord channel ID, find channel ID
- WAYBACK_DISCORD_HELPTEXT - The help text for Discord command
- WAYBACK_SLACK_APP_TOKEN - App-Level Token of Slack app
- WAYBACK_SLACK_BOT_TOKEN - Bot User OAuth Token for Slack workspace, use User OAuth Token if requires create external link
- WAYBACK_SLACK_CHANNEL - Channel ID of Slack channel
- WAYBACK_SLACK_HELPTEXT - The help text for Slack slash command
- WAYBACK_NOSTR_RELAY_URL wss://nostr.developer.li Nostr relay server url, multiple separated by comma
- WAYBACK_NOSTR_PRIVATE_KEY - The private key of a Nostr account
- WAYBACK_XMPP_JID - The JID of a XMPP account
- WAYBACK_XMPP_PASSWORD - The password of a XMPP account
- WAYBACK_XMPP_NOTLS - Connect to XMPP server without TLS
- WAYBACK_XMPP_HELPTEXT - The help text for XMPP command
--tor WAYBACK_USE_TOR false Snapshot webpage via Tor anonymity network
--tor-key WAYBACK_ONION_PRIVKEY - The private key for Tor Hidden Service
- WAYBACK_ONION_LOCAL_PORT 8964 Local port for Tor Hidden Service, also support for a reverse proxy. This is ignored if WAYBACK_LISTEN_ADDR is set.
- WAYBACK_ONION_REMOTE_PORTS 80 Remote ports for Tor Hidden Service, e.g. WAYBACK_ONION_REMOTE_PORTS=80,81
- WAYBACK_ONION_DISABLED false Disable onion service
- WAYBACK_SLOT - Pinning service for IPFS mode of pinner, see ipfs-pinner
- WAYBACK_APIKEY - API key for pinning service
- WAYBACK_SECRET - API secret for pinning service

Last update: February 23, 2024
Created: June 13, 2020