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If I read the code correctly, it's one-at-a-time? Which minimizes the stress; if we're slow, it'll slow down.

It'd be nice if it had identification in the UserAgent, so that we could complain to the right people if it was a problem.

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Hi, Greg! Library author here. I'd be happy to add a configurable UserAgent. Perhaps the default would be a generic "waybackpack" but could be configurable to add contact info for the user. Does that sound about right? Prefer a different approach?

And, yep, the library is intentionally designed only to request one snapshot at a time.

waybackpack would be a great default; encouraging the actual user to add contact info would be better for you because we could complain to them instead of you :-)

Updated, merged, and pushed to PyPi as part of v0.1.0: https://github.com/jsvine/waybackpack/pull/5

Thanks again for the feedback. Really appreciate it — and the existence of the Internet Archive and Wayback Machine.

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