Linkstat

	Save a URL in the Internet Archive (IA) or retrieve earliest and latest statistics via the command line.
Homepage:	https://httpreserve.info
Status:	Maintained ✅
Source Code:	https://github.com/httpreserve/linkstat
License:	GPL 3.0
Platforms:	Windows, Linux, MacOS
Language:	English
Function:	Web Capture
Content type:	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 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:

{
   "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"
}

The information includes:

Earliest and latest saves in the Internet Archive
A URL to save the page in its current state.
Example robust links.
Persistent Web Identifier (PWID)

The information can also be retrieved via linkstat's sister page httpreserve.info

User Experiences

Development Activity

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

Release Feed

Below the last 3 release feeds:

2026-07-05 15:43:16: [tag:github.com,2008:Repository/176600526/0.0.8 0.0.8]; by ross-spencer
2026-07-05 15:31:05: [tag:github.com,2008:Repository/176600526/0.0.7 0.0.7]; by ross-spencer
2026-07-03 16:26:07: [tag:github.com,2008:Repository/176600526/0.0.6 0.0.6]; by ross-spencer

Activity Feed

Below the last 5 commits:

2026-07-05 15:50:26: [tag:github.com,2008:Grit::Commit/67a96ca4d52d9521337f4dac44c8b3b232c1d642 Update README]; by ross-spencer https://github.com/ross-spencer
2026-07-05 15:41:45: [tag:github.com,2008:Grit::Commit/c25e5a670cae1972ea9e595c6022ee80d16d69ae Update version number]; by ross-spencer https://github.com/ross-spencer
2026-07-05 15:41:03: [tag:github.com,2008:Grit::Commit/97c1efe15e5ccfd55b6cf53bbaa1c641d2dcea9f Disable screenshot output from results]; by ross-spencer https://github.com/ross-spencer
2026-07-05 15:26:58: [tag:github.com,2008:Grit::Commit/a41ab5b03f993b912830b285f9805a3080bf3ab7 Update version]; by ross-spencer https://github.com/ross-spencer
2026-07-05 15:25:52: [tag:github.com,2008:Grit::Commit/6d146f3c6952ffa158050ed2b9761098d0f2b5b4 Update go.mod and go.sum]; by ross-spencer https://github.com/ross-spencer