Is there a nice way to add a URL from the Wayback machine? I don't want to add HTML documents but rather PDFs etc. The problem is that web.archive.org doesn't send a Content-Length header: $ curl -I http://web.archive.org/web/20171117120847/https://downloads.kitenet.net/videos/git-annex/git-annex_views_demo.ogg HTTP/1.1 200 OK Server: Tengine/2.1.0 Date: Fri, 17 Nov 2017 12:09:35 GMT Content-Type: audio/ogg Connection: keep-alive X-Archive-Orig-content-length: 29784324 X-Archive-Orig-accept-ranges: bytes X-Archive-Orig-server: Apache/2.4.29 (Debian) X-Archive-Orig-last-modified: Wed, 11 Feb 2015 01:31:47 GMT X-Archive-Orig-connection: close X-Archive-Orig-etag: "1c67904-50ec5f783257c" X-Archive-Orig-date: Fri, 17 Nov 2017 12:08:49 GMT Cache-Control: max-age=1800 X-Archive-Guessed-Content-Type: audio/ogg Memento-Datetime: Fri, 17 Nov 2017 12:08:47 GMT Link: ; rel="original", ; rel="timemap"; type="application/link-format", ; rel="timegate", ; rel="first memento"; datetime="Sat, 26 Apr 2014 04:57:33 GMT", ; rel="prev memento"; datetime="Tue, 22 Aug 2017 17:46:08 GMT", ; rel="memento"; datetime="Fri, 17 Nov 2017 12:08:47 GMT", ; rel="last memento"; datetime="Fri, 17 Nov 2017 12:08:47 GMT" Content-Security-Policy: default-src 'self' 'unsafe-eval' 'unsafe-inline' data: archive.org web.archive.org analytics.archive.org X-App-Server: wwwb-app39 X-ts: ---- X-Archive-Playback: 0 X-location: All X-Page-Cache: MISS Therefore, I'd have to pass the `--relaxed` flag when calling `addurl`. Is there maybe a way to tell git-annex to download the file before checking its size? Or is there a way to use the Wayback machine via the S3 special remote? Eventually, I'd like to have a script that automatically saves all web content in my repo into the Wayback machine and adds the new URLs for redundancy. This is what I've got so far: #! /usr/bin/env python3 from subprocess import check_output, Popen, PIPE import json from urllib import request from sys import stdout output = check_output(['git-annex', 'find', '--in', 'web', '--json']) files = [json.loads(line)['file'] for line in output.split(b'\n')[:-1]] p = Popen(['git-annex', 'whereis', '--batch', '--json'], stdin=PIPE, stdout=PIPE) p.stdin.writelines(str.encode(f + '\n') for f in files) out, err = p.communicate() urls = [] for line in out.split(b'\n')[:-1]: for loc in json.loads(line)['untrusted']: if loc['uuid'] == '00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000001': url = loc['urls'][0] import urllib.request print('GET https://web.archive.org/save/' + url) r = request.urlopen('https://web.archive.org/save/' + url) assert(r.getcode() == 200) urls.append(r.geturl()) break assert(len(files) == len(urls)) p = Popen(['git-annex', 'addurl', '--batch', '--with-files', '--relaxed'], stdin=PIPE, stdout=stdout) p.stdin.writelines(str.encode(f + ' ' + u) for f, u in zip(urls, files)) p.communicate()