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{{Infobox tool
|purpose=Save a URL in the Internet Archive (IA) or retrieve earliest and latest statistics via the command line.
|homepage=https://httpreserve.info
|tool_status=Maintained
|sourcecode=https://github.com/httpreserve/linkstat
|license=GPL 3.0
|platforms=Windows, Linux, MacOS
|language=English
|function=Web Capture
|content=Web
}}
== Description ==


Retrieve Internet Archive (IA) statistics about URLs found in documentary heritage collections. Returns earliest and latest links and provides a wrapper to the IA's [https://web.archive.org/save/ SaveNow] capabilities to enable saving a current snapshot via the command line.

== User Experiences ==


* [https://exponentialdecay.co.uk/blog/shortened-links-expand-them-and-save-the-urls/ Shortened Links? Expand them and save the URLs]
* [https://openpreservation.org/blogs/links-all-of-the-way-down-httpreservation-of-documentary-heritage/ Links all the way down - HTTPreservation of documentary heritage]

== Development Activity ==



All development activity is visible on GitHub: https://github.com/httpreserve/linkstat/commits

=== Release Feed ===
Below the last 3 release feeds:
<rss max=3>https://github.com/httpreserve/linkstat/releases.atom</rss>

=== Activity Feed ===
Below the last 5 commits:
<rss max=5>https://github.com/httpreserve/linkstat/commits/main.atom</rss>



{{Infobox tool details}}

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	Retrieve Internet Archive (IA) statistics about URLs found in documentary heritage collections. Returns earliest and latest links and provides a wrapper to the IA's [https://web.archive.org/save/ SaveNow] capabilities to enable saving a current snapshot via the command line.		Retrieve Internet Archive (IA) statistics about URLs found in documentary heritage collections. Returns earliest and latest links and provides a wrapper to the IA's [https://web.archive.org/save/ SaveNow] capabilities to enable saving a current snapshot via the command line.
		+
		+	=== Output ===
		+
		+	Given a URL linkstat will output a set of statistics about a page that can be recorded to help maintain information about the state of a link at the time it was received or extracted from documentary heritage to be triaged.
		+
		+	E.g. https://example.com:
		+
		+	<pre>
		+	{
		+	"AnalysisVersionNumber": "0.0.20",
		+	"AnalysisVersionText": "exponentialdecay-httpreserve/0.0.20",
		+	"SimpleRequestVersion": "httpreserve-simplerequest/0.0.4",
		+	"Link": "http://example.com/",
		+	"Title": "example domain",
		+	"ContentType": "text/html",
		+	"ResponseCode": 200,
		+	"ResponseText": "OK",
		+	"SourceURL": "http://example.com/",
		+	"ScreenShot": "snapshots are not currently enabled",
		+	"InternetArchiveLinkEarliest": "https://web.archive.org/web/20020120142510/http://example.com/",
		+	"InternetArchiveEarliestDate": "2002-01-20 14:25:10 +0000 UTC",
		+	"InternetArchiveLinkLatest": "https://web.archive.org/web/20260712020557/https://example.com/",
		+	"InternetArchiveLatestDate": "2026-07-12 02:05:57 +0000 UTC",
		+	"InternetArchiveSaveLink": "https://web.archive.org/save/http://example.com/",
		+	"InternetArchiveResponseCode": 302,
		+	"InternetArchiveResponseText": "Found",
		+	"RobustLinkEarliest": "<a href='https://web.archive.org/web/20020120142510/http://example.com/' data-originalurl='http://example.com/' data-versiondate='2002-01-20'>HTTPreserve Robust Link - simply replace this text!!</a>",
		+	"RobustLinkLatest": "<a href='https://web.archive.org/web/20260712020557/https://example.com/' data-originalurl='http://example.com/' data-versiondate='2026-07-12'>HTTPreserve Robust Link - simply replace this text!!</a>",
		+	"PWID": "urn:pwid:archive.org:2026-07-12T02:05:57Z:page:http://example.com/",
		+	"Archived": true,
		+	"Error": false,
		+	"ErrorMessage": "",
		+	"StatsCreationTime": "1.456610735s"
		+	}
		+	</pre>
		+
		+	The information includes:
		+
		+	* Earliest and latest saves in the Internet Archive
		+	* A URL to save the page in its current state.
		+	* Example [https://github.com/iipc/robustlinks robust links].
		+	* [https://id.kb.dk/pwid/index_UK.html Persistent Web Identifier] (PWID)
		+
		+	The information can also be retrieved via linkstat's sister page [https://httpreserve.info/ httpreserve.info]

	== User Experiences ==		== User Experiences ==

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