Wayback
A self-hosted toolkit for archiving webpages to the Internet Archive, archive.today, IPFS, and local file systems.
Description from awesome-selfhosted (CC BY-SA 3.0)
Still maintained? Partly: no commits in 90 days, but v0.21.1 shipped in Jul 2026.
Comparisons in Archiving and Digital Preservation (DP): Wayback Machine alternatives.
At a glance
Wayback quick facts
- Health score
- 48/100 SLOWING
- Stars
- 2,248
- Last commit
- 7 days ago (Oct 2026)
- Latest release
- v0.21.1, Jul 2026
- Licence
- GPL-3.0
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In its own words
The project's README opens: "Wayback is a web archiving and playback tool that allows users to capture and preserve web content. It provides an IM-style interface for receiving and presenting archived web content, and a search and playback service for retrieving previously archived pages. Wayback is designed to be used by web archivists, researchers, and anyone who wants to preserve web content and access it in the future."
Why it ranks here
Health score explained
Wayback scores 48/100, #17 of 19 in Archiving and Digital Preservation (DP): 0 commits in the last 90 days earn 0.0 of 35 points, the latest release (v0.21.1, 4 months ago) earns 25.0 of 25, 2,248 stars add 13.4 of 20, an active, unarchived repository keeps 10 and no advertised Docker image leaves the final 10 unclaimed. That places it in the slowing band (40 to 69). The biggest shortfall is commit activity, worth 35.0 more points.
Recomputed nightly from the GitHub API. How the score is calculated.
- Commit activity biggest shortfall 0.0 / 35
0 commits in 90 days (30+ scores full marks)
- Release recency 25.0 / 25
v0.21.1 released 4 months ago
- Stars 13.4 / 20
2.2k stars on GitHub (logarithmic)
- Not archived 10.0 / 10
Repository is active
- Docker support 0.0 / 10
No Docker support advertised
Commit activity
- 0
- Last 90 days
- 26
- Last 12 months
- 7 days ago
- Last push
Ranked #17 of 19 tools in Archiving and Digital Preservation (DP) by health , between Piler (#16) and bitmagnet (#18) .
Details
| Licence | GPL-3.0 |
| Platforms | Go |
| Latest release | v0.21.1 · 4 months ago |
| Stars | 2,248 |
| Open issues | 27 |
| Docker | Not advertised |
| Repository | wabarc/wayback ↗ |
Wayback vs its top 5 alternatives
Active tools that share a category with Wayback (Archiving and Digital Preservation (DP)), scored on the same five terms.
| Tool | Health | Stars | Licence | Last commit |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Paperless-ngx | 99 | 47k | GPL-3.0 | today |
| Papra | 95 | 5.6k | AGPL-3.0 | yesterday |
| Bichon | 93 | 2.1k | AGPL-3.0 | yesterday |
| mail-archiver | 93 | 2.2k | GPL-3.0 | 2 days ago |
| Ganymede | 92 | 1k | GPL-3.0 | yesterday |
| Wayback (this tool) | 48 | 2.2k | GPL-3.0 | 7 days ago |
Wayback: common questions
Is Wayback still maintained?
Wayback had 0 commits in the last 90 days and its last push was 7 days ago; the latest tagged release, v0.21.1, is from 4 months ago. Repoly recomputes this nightly.